Brad Johnson
United States
Crystal Lake
Illinois
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I found this fan-made expansion for Power Grid here, and I'd like to make my own copy. There are several threads detailing how people made their own cool versions, and I'm inspired, but I can't find one important detail: Exactly how large should the tiles be printed so they're at the same scale as the base game? The pictures are saved at 22"x22", but I'm sure I'm not supposed to print them at that size. At least one person said they printed them at the "default size", but what should that be? Every application I open the jpgs in scales them as it sees fit....
Can anyone help? Printer ink costing what it does, I'd prefer not to have to experiment to figure out what size is right...
Thanks!
Brad/tempus42.
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Jon Theys
United States
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
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per the details at http://perso.orange.fr/taverne.ligue/funkensite/index.htm, each file is 300dpi, and fianl print size varies (although most are 18cmx18cm).
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David Reed
United States
College Station
Texas
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The manual gives the exact sizes for everything. I resized everything in Photoshop and printed them from there (for friends - I don't actually own a copy of PowerGrid, but I have friends that do).
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Mike Banks
United States
Camp Hill
Pennsylvania
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I would suggest printing them *slightly* larger than 18x18cm, on the outside chance that your printer (like mine) doesn't want to really print them out as perfect squares.
This way, you can trim each tile the same way to the exact specs you want. I printed at 19x19cm, and that worked fine. Of course, due to operater error, my tiles *still* aren't perfect squares -- but at least they are all the same dimensions, which is all that really matters.
Follow Tatsu's tutorial & you'll get great results. In any case, the two most important things I learned are:
-- Krylon UV Glossy spray (3 or 4 LIGHT coats)
-- Roller Cutter!!
There is also a file of mine that is a reworked version of the resource market tile, in a linear form that is more like the original and Italy/France ones. I found the square one included with Atolla to be tricky to replenish & suss out at a quick glance, tho YMMV.
Good luck!!
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Greg Hinkle
United States
Cleveland Heights
Ohio
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Each page fits fine on an 8.5x11. It's just a lot of pages.
I had fun building mine, and it looks flippin' awesome.
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Sterling Babcock
United States
Colorado
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I tried to move this to the game page, but had problems getting it to work. Hopefully, it has arrived there ok now.
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United States
Greer
South Carolina
Entropy Seminar:
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agnespoodle wrote: Each page fits fine on an 8.5x11. It's just a lot of pages.
I had fun building mine, and it looks flippin' awesome.
Ditto. And I printed mine out through Word, of all things. Just make sure when you go in to format the image that it's at 100% (you might need to fiddle with the margins to get them to fit on a page). Then I pasted it all to matboard and pulled out my trusty rotary cutter.
I'm not the only one who thinks mine turned out "flippin' awesome"; many of the guys in my group commented on how professional it looked.
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David
New Zealand
Wellington
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What's the best sort of glue to use?
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Charles Hasegawa
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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meowsqueak wrote: What's the best sort of glue to use?
I used Elmer's spray glue, which you can get at Walmart or Michaels or any craft store. Be careful you use enough and then press it flat past where the edge of the image will be, so when you cut, the edges don't try and peel back.
Also, be sure to let it dry before you cut.
I've tried the Avery full page stickers before and this works ok, but the colors don't end up as bright and the page ends up being slightly translucent, so it shows through slightly. IMO, its worth the extra time and trouble to use the spray glue and better printing materials.
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Marc P
United States
Green Lake--Seattle
Washington
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meowsqueak wrote: What's the best sort of glue to use?
I used 3M '77' spray glue and it worked well, but you must work outside or in a very-well ventilated area. There's also a water-based paint-on glue available at art stores that binds more strongly than Elmer's, and I've been using that for most of my homemade game projects. The spray will also get onto the front of the image.
Seconded on the roller cutter. There's a LOT of cutting involved and it's easy to get careless, so be extra careful no matter what you use.
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Simon Dorfman
United States
Janesville
WI
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I took the time to create a PDF document all ready to print everything out at the right size. I hope this saves some folks some time and energy. The 35MB PDF file is available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4ydnf51yzmj
Andy if you want to tweak the layout of that PDF, and you have Adobe InDesign CS2, here are all the files you need, archived into a split RAR file:
PowerGridExpansion.part1.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/?2uytmyrzzqy
PowerGridExpansion.part2.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/?0m2m1nzlmmm
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Andrew Smith
United Kingdom
Stockport
Cheshire
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Simon,
That pdf download is absolutely fabulous. Many many thanks.
Andrew
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Dzmitry Shaparau
Italy
Trento
TN
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The PDF is really great! Thank you so much!
Also, I would like to have the source files to change it a bit, but the link for the first part is down 
(PowerGridExpansion.part1.rar http://www.mediafire.com/?2uytmyrzzqy)
Please can anyone re-upload it? Thanks.
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Simon Dorfman
United States
Janesville
WI
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I'm glad y'all found the PDF useful.
I re-uploaded the RAR part 1 here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?b0g9cv0ztxj
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Christopher Muzatko
United States
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Simon,
Thank you so much for these files. Is there anyway you could re-post RAR Part 2 with that Part 1? (Or at least just the "tuile-G.tif") Because the new "Part 1" has the first half of that file in a folder, while Part 2, has it in the root so they won't combine into a completed file.
Thanks again,
~DarkWolfNine
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Simon Dorfman
United States
Janesville
WI
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i re-upped the rar part 2 here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?prj51ivu3wm
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Simon Dorfman
United States
Janesville
WI
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since mediafire seems to delete files after a while, i re-upped everything to divshare which supposedly doesn't delete files over time. And it allows files up to 200MB so I was able to make one rar instead of having to split it.
The PDF is here:
http://www.divshare.com/download/4005425-39c
And the RAR is here:
http://www.divshare.com/download/4005680-5f8
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Andrew Smith
United Kingdom
Stockport
Cheshire
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My approach to printing this out was very simple.
I used the pdf someone kindly created which contains all the pictures, I printed this onto glossy photopaper, laminated this with my home laminator, trimmed the edges with a guillotine, and then found some self adhesive mounting board. This is in hobby shops and it's a couple of millimetres thick. I cut it into squares using a craft knife, and then peeled off the backing so the pictures stuck onto it directly.
Job done - no spray glue, varnish etc. And it looks brilliant.
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Chris Miller
United States
Huntsville
Alabama
My Dog Has Fleas
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I just printed it out on cardstock and laminated it. I don't think I'm going to mount them further but I may cut a piece of nonskid rubbery shelf paper to act as a base to keep them from sliding.
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