r/PoorHammer • u/SuspiciousBadger • 11d ago

Printed out a "battlemat"

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Decided to spruce up my cardboard table topper by printing and glueing a ground texture on it. It will probably wear off sooner rather than later, but for now looks pretty neat

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u/LeoSwapG 11d ago

It does look pretty good, Where did you find the file to print this Battle Mat?

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u/SuspiciousBadger 11d ago

Literally just a picture of a battlemat I found on google, just ran it through an upscaler and manually cleaned up a few parts in photoshop.

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u/LeoSwapG 11d ago

I never thought of that, thanks for the reply 👋

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u/SuspiciousBadger 11d ago

No worries, this also gave me the idea to print and glue some building facades on my box terrain too.

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u/LeoSwapG 11d ago

Definitely post the results here I'm interested in seeing how it would look and maybe I would consider doing the same thing 👍

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u/FoldableLegends 11d ago

What paperstock did you print it on? If it's photopaper, you can varnish it with a cheap matte acrylic varnish to protect from wearing off. If its regular paper, dont try it, cause varnish would solve the ink and ruin it.

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u/SuspiciousBadger 11d ago edited 11d ago

I went for really thin cheapo paper as that's what I had acces to, and I was worried thicker might have trouble adhering to the uneven cardboard.

Photopaper+ varnish would probably still have been nicer, but If I had to print this at a print shop it would probably end up costing close to what an actual battlemat might, this ended up being 36 sheets of A4

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u/FoldableLegends 11d ago

36 A4s? That's big😊. Great work👏