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[Quaksna]

For the two next chapters, I think I had reached the highest point of the DF set production. So brace yourself, and get ready for the greatest load yet!

Spoiler: ToK:Rise of new nations (click to show/hide)

Honestly I am kind of surprised looking back I had the patience to do all this in such short span of time, seems this journey to the past is full of fun discoveries even for me.

Chapters 3-4 did introduce some new environments, each accompanied by its own little set of models.

First off we have new human tribesmen. If you remember me talking about coming up with the various professions for these cultures, this is where the old, old concepts resurfaced.

A few bigger tents made of some furs, some more warriors as well as workers, the tribe council, and Cilko with his two apprentices. I wanted to give these tribe wizards some sort of illusion magic, something of mists and winds, their clothes reflect that - they're grey with these light blue symbols that almost blend together with the base color, mainly stuff like spirals, but Cilko should have a bird on his cloak somewhere, too.

Then the ancient ruins, so basically a bunch of pillars. Also a table with scrolls and a statuette.

Alle's horse and some sacks. I struggled to come up with a way to make good-looking bags, so it took some time since the conception of ToK. As for horses, mounts were always interesting to make, and I don't have many mounted figurines in this nor the other sets, so they were always something special worth of extra effort.

In my beginning months playing Dwarf Fortress, I remember playing Adventure mode more, and in my forts I haven't breached a cavern layer for a long time, so I was pretty unfamiliar with the DF underground flora and fauna, which I would argue is the most original portion of the game, the beasts are imaginative yet feel really grounded and natural. So during ToK development, I had to rely on the wiki. I tried to find some big beast that suitable to be a mount, and I picked a rutherer. I wanted to create him based on the in-game description only, and I think he turned out well.

Band of troglodytes and a cave crocodile. When introducing cavern scenes for the first time, I made quite a few mushroom trees, much easier to make than the outdoor ones, and some small mushrooms - plump helmets and dimple cups as well.

Lolor's kea is probably the smallest model in the set, but the crundles were much more difficult to make. They have tails, horns and limbs, which are all separate parts - as I would do with the regular humanoid model. I could've made the extra step and give them openable mouths, but they're good as they are. I've made seven or eight of them, all at once.

Also a full sized cave dragon, that I hadn't actually come to use.

Two bosses of the goblin nation, Rulasm and his lackey Gostus, also the Royal guards. I made sure to have Rulasm be very pompous looking, with lots of scars hinting on his long history of fighting, and I wasn't really sure what beast twisted into humanoid form should he be, I think the swine was a on-spot decision. His fire breath was probably the first time I used crepe paper on ToK. Another fun fact about him is that I didn't want to make him a platform, a bit because it would have to be rather big, but mainly I didn't want to bend his hooves. It does look okay with feet, not with hooves. Luckily, his cape, despite being a single decorative layer, was somehow able to support him.

Two other misshapen denizens of underworld, a giant sulfur giant with odd body proportions, and a venom-sweating worm, with some hair growing on its back.

Gostus is maybe the only goblin that has somewhat complete armor - a sign of his high rank. The two guards are more ornate than armored, with their prominent fancy bands, helmets and capes, their uniforms have the exact same design, as you can clearly see.

Some random goblin citizens, more background characters than anything.

The oddball at the far left dates back to chapter 1, forgotten about him, as he was added later than the other goblin bandits.

Greater addition to the goblins would be their army of levies. I remember very fondly making these, I again tried to make each completely different, despite them being background characters too, a cluster of soldiers I needed for a few scenes, but with all the weapons and armor, the various combinations one could come up with, it was fun indeed.

A few trolls and three beak dog riders were made as part of this army, too. Capturing beak dog ridiculous rainbow color scheme was fun too, each of the three mounts is different as well. The trolls not so much, but even there I did play around with the individual faces.

Then there was a little expansion for the elves. A giant cougar and tiger, carefully measured to for their in-game sizes, and four druid colleagues of Ebeca. And I know I'm talking about the focus on making every figure stand out all the time here, after all, it is pretty much the philosophy of this whole DF set, but for me personally, these druids are the best example of it.

When I looked at them all together, I had this urge to make up a rich backstory for every single one, even though they are in the background of just one episode, and I wondered how they're like. And yeah, I did think this way about the oldest figures like Alak, Lolor or Alle, but remember, those were made before the conception of ToK, because I just wanted to make some intentionally interesting DF papercrafts, not because I needed them for a scene in my running projects. Those weren't created with the intent of being in ToK. The druids were, and yet, they had this strong effect on me. They're some of my favourite models for this very reason.

Artifact nest box, nothing to add here.

Goblin wizards - the Deathmaster and his apprentices, one follower of Ongnguutgub, and one of Oströtakåtôz. Each one is tied to the sphere of their masters - the death wizards have pale clothes, the servant of beauty has a toga (actually tied on him, not glued), and the disease one has almost leper-like appearance.

The Deathmaster himself was based on necromancers in DF, as they were living for so long almost all of them have in description: "His white hair is extremely long". His cape supported him perfectly, so platform wasn't needed for him.   

Fâel the cockatrice. Was made around time I was super into heraldry, so no wonder.

Frog deities, a pool with a fountain statue, and some slab.

I found a folder thingie at home having this nice pattern, with blue background and white spots that looked like some sort of stone, so I used it as the walls of the Mountainhome, and I made some paper blocks to go with it as ramparts. Also some weapons and shields without owners, lying around for the scenery.

Dwarf berserker deity, and artworks from Hall of Fame.

Then, a return to the subterranean world! Made some serpent men, with their veteran boss, a gorlak(the original was lost and had to be replaced in between the episodes), and Id. Also the three masked kobolds, with one of them being this elite bronze-clad kobold thug, hinting that those ain't your ordinary item stealers.

And to have something nasty I'm the caves to balance things out I made a proper forgotten beast.

Must've dropped his antenna somewhere...

This ant FB has to be one of the more unique models, as it has pretty complex construction compared to everything else. It is made of regular paper, crepe paper, and skewers, too! The crepe paper is a sort of stuffing held together by the chitin paper plates, with legs having skewers in their core. The legs aren't that good of a support, though, but since there are six of them, and the beast is in cavern with walls around, handling it around in the scenes wasn't that bad.

That's it for the third and four episode of ToK. We've past the highpoint, and the number of new papercraft production would slowly start to drop...

[King Zultan]

Are you going to be making more of these in the future and are you going show them off on here?

[Quaksna]

Are you going to be making more of these in the future and are you going show them off on here?

Not sure if I want to go back to this DF set, but there is some stuff I did after that I plan to get to and cover here.

The thing is once you evolve in the craft somehow, you want to stick to the "better" you just discovered, and not continue creating the old "inferior". However, new DF themed set using the new methods is something I can consider, as that is something I did multiple times, creating a set based of some older one, just of better quality (I did return to Dominions themed papercrafts using the layering techniques of the ToK set, for example).

But alas, as of late I wasn't much invested in new papercrafts (excluding ToK from time to time, but that was more 'cause of obligation), and I shifted to sewing and drawing. So currently I am not interested in making new papercrafts, but who knows. Maybe somewhere in the future, a new era will arise like, those I covered in the first post...

[Yellow Pixel]

The chapters 3 and 4 clearly show the advance of your papercrafting techniques. We can see that the clothing of the figurines is becoming more realistic, with more detailed features and beautiful folds, wich is particularly true on the four druid colleagues of Ebeca and the five goblin wizards.

Moreover, the animals and other creatures are often betterly made than before, although the llamas and Aspdosusmat (the giant wolf) from chapter 1 were already pretty nice. Among them, I like the tiger, that gives off a lifelike feeling; the ant FB, with its abdomen that seems engraved with patterns; and the bunch of crundles, that are adequately shaped (it's not so evident that they are made of separate paper pieces, wich is indeed a good thing). But I also like Rulasm, that is crafted and drawn with precision, making for a quite respectable villain.

Lastly, I agree that the cave environment is the most original and complete of the story.

[Quaksna]

Spoiler: The Conclusion of ToK, and DF papercrafts (click to show/hide)

I was somewhat maintaining the course of ToK all the way to chapter five, but I would start losing interest. And it wasn't that I wouldn't want to continue, but the process stopped bringing me the joy it once had. I started taking breaks from it, and pursue other things for a change, and I think it was for the better.

I started drawing, and on a particular thread concerning consumption of fungi I drew attention of a bunch of fellow Watchers, which would really help me later on. I couldn't suppress the need to be in a mutually active sort of bond with the Watchers even in ToK, as I would let them plan out the battles and some other stuff, I think this might be the initial idea of a webcomic resurfacing over and over. And one day, when I was bored and unsure what to do, and idea occurred to me, to start a new thread to keep me invested.

The -Drawings- project would finally sate my webcomic needs, and with the crew from the thread of insane poetry quickly hopping on board, I was happier than ever, and content once again. But it would be to the detriment of ToK, and papercrafts in general. It was the beginning of my major shift from papercrafts to other crafts, and while the process was slow, it was apparent.

I still wanted to finish ToK, but with less time and investment, it would be more out of obligation than anything. I feel that ToK had play out like whatever situations I thought of with the characters, with one unifying story, and there was almost no filter to it- almost anything has occurred to Q'uaksna ended up being posted, but this is where it became a problem. Now that -Drawings- existed, set in the same universe, ToK has changed. As it wasn't what I mainly focused anymore, it went nowhere for a while. The breaks I took were longer and longer, and while I had pretty much everything prepared for the conclusion, I just kept waiting. It was a weird period.

Recently I finally said: "Enough!" to myself and went to make the last seventh chapter, and like by divine intervention, I couldn't find any of the figures I would use for planned exposition scenes, so I took it as an omen to leave them out completely
I ended the chapter with five episodes just finishing the story, and that was the end of ToK. And I haven't made any papercrafts since (there were some in the ToK breaks, though, we'll get there).


Enough talking, let's take a look at the last ToK additions! There isn't that much of them, but even then I managed to not find them all, so there are lots of pics directly from ToK, apologies.

First, there are these bandits. While they surely are different from one another, I think they lack something the models before had, I don't know. Feel a bit off to me, personally, but maybe that's because I don't remember having fun making them, for reasons stated above.

Rane's horse, nothing to add here.

Some minor environment stuff. Three wall props, trying to mirror the kitchen floor, tiles for Kudarkalur hallway, and archway.

Also this cavern hut. I kind of like the hut, it has a goblin cap for a roof, so that's something.



Kâdol. The idea of a fiery dwarven deity was in my head for quite a while, but I hadn't come up with his looks until his own model. Burning eyes, his skin is grey like ash, cinder, his hair black like smoke and coal, his clothes red and golden. I think out of all the deities, I think this one is of the more imaginative ones. Also didn't need a platform, I love when I don't need to use platforms.

Non-Kudarkalur dwarves needed more props and stuff, so these random workers, king's table and his chamberlain are all pretty late additions. His copper-clad bodyguards, despite being introduced rather late as well, are actually pretty ancient - they date to pre-ToK era, and were made in honor of my first legendary militia dwarves I got in DF play, their features and equipment are exactly mirroring their descriptions.

Mysterious cultists. They only ever appear in one episode, wanted them to appear at the end too, but ultimately cut it, didn't really think of a good way to make the scene fit with the rest.

Those are definitely much better than the bandits in terms of... Everything, really. I think I didn't want to use them in ToK when creating them, so they were quite enjoyable to make (those were made when I thought of concepts for -Drawings-, though the idea of this cult was in my head a long, long time). Their clothes are nice, their masks detailed, their appearance is both awesome and horrifying. Almost everyone has a sword somewhere, there's a one with full scale-like armor, an elf with this golden cloak and an uniquely shaped blade, their leader is almost over the top ornated and gilded... I think these are some of the finest diverse members of the same faction I have.

Golden Queen, her servant, carpet, and contraption. The servant has a pretty unique look to anything in the set yet, I feel. The device was made by making few bizzare pieces, then placing them on top of some local coins.

As for Golden Queen herself, her role in the story was planned but the actual appearance and character were not, those were pretty much on-spot decisions, but I think she got it well enough. She isn't exactly one of my favorites personally, but I do like a lot the two outfits I made for her - the black toga (again, actually wrapped like an actual toga rather than glued, must've been during my toga phase, sweet memories), and her fighting equipment, with many unnamed artifacts. Also the coloring on her is rather nice, the intended color is well captured.

Armored Alak, Urist, and Udirizden squad. For Kudarkalurians, I made their armor copper, Alak has his coat of arms on his equipment. Urist is one of the taller dwarves in the set, his armor set is pretty massive and towers over all his acquaintances. Udirizden have full steel armor, their weapons are unchanged.

The subterranean tribal dwarves. When I was fleshing out the tribal cultures, I thought of the tribal dwarves having both above ground and cavern tribes, that would have rough history with each other. Until these figures those were just concepts, then I though I could give the underground tribesmen masks. With the colorful subterranean wood, also their masks are varied I'm both color and shape. There's just five of them, but they're fine.

Blind cave ogre. I know the things are massive, this one turned out rather lanky. He has a shank-like weapon, and loincloth made of the cavern flora.

Îbmat, the last known dwarf to join Kidarkalur. Mundane clothing, only the blue socks are unusual. Has a single glove. Nothing too special, but not too bad.


Then there is a shot I wanted to show at the end of ToK, but ultimately didn't. I won't describe it, those who read through it should get it. It is unused material, and isn't really important to the story, but these are models made specifically for this one shot. If you have no clue what is it about, I don't blame you

That's it for the entirety of ToK! I'm pretty sure I didn't cover every single model, but I don't even remember lots of them at this point, so I think I did it justice. Next post will be about the post-DF papercrafts.

[Yellow Pixel]

As you were progressively losing interest for ToK and since writing the tales wasn't bringing you as much joy before, finding a way to end them was probably the right thing to do. I think that the stories in wich their authors have put all their heart into are the most valuable ones, so that you concentrated your efforts on your -Drawings- seems judicious to me. But in spite of that, I consider you had produced some of your best +Papercrafts+ in the last chapters of Tok.

First off, Kâdol is pretty cool with his robes that seem to be set on fire thanks to the subtle mix of red and gold on him. There are also those terrific cultists who appear very shadowy and disturbing with their strange, complex masks and clothing.

Then, the Golden Queen is a very unique character. I would say she is one of the most well-made creature of the story and it has a lot to do with her enveloping wings: they look real and kind of leathery, owing to the numerous grooves on them and their dense coloring, that also truly give them a golden sheen. Additionally, her very supple snakelike body and her cobra head allow her to strike highly menacing poses, wich is great.

Your subterranean tribal dwarves are, to end with, relatively simply designed, but just by adding colored masks on them, you gave them much character.

[King Zultan]

I've recently started reading the papercrafts thread and I'm enjoying it so far, but I feel kind of bad that I didn't post on it when it first started, I meant to but forgot and I ended up missing out.

[Quaksna]

Spoiler: The last papercrafts (click to show/hide)

It's hard for me to divide my sets into eras sometimes, for a) I lost track and I don't remember, or b) the eras were crossing and overlaying each other. And that is especially true for the more recent ones. ToK would need new DF-themed papercrafts, but I would make a new set from time to time.

First of these would be Dominions inspired models, again, but this set would have them made mote in the fashion and mindset of the DF set.

As you will soon see, they're all larger, for the sake of detail. Having the things as small as possible is good and all, but here it wasn't necessary, as in Dominions there aren't such differences in size of various races as it is in DF. That, and more place to work with.

I will go through these, I think they're one of the most finest of my models, as long fairly sturdy, so they don't need that gentle manipulation.

Frost giant jarl, vaetti goblin and a trickster sorcerer.

Germanic warrior, antlered shaman, and Sami chieftain. It's very fun to make these figures that are wrapped in various furs and cloth, especially with the layering method from the DF set.

Now for some Celts, those are the most numerous in this set. There are multiple celt nations in the game and are some of my favourites.

Gaelic warriors, some bare-chested, one with chainmail, and their chieftain. The unit have the same uniform, but their proportions and hair colors are different, also tattoo placements. When creating the chief I was thinking of Vitalstatistix from Asterix, that's probably how he got the moustache.

A druid and a sequani stargazer. With the layering, making the simplest robes was a lot of fun.

Irish-themed Celts - Fit Bolg warrior and druid, Sidhe and Tuatha warrior. The Tuatha is based on the in-game unit, but has custom equipment.

Two wizards, a sage and immortal elder, can't remember his name at the moment, but it's a character directly from the mythology.

Their mythological enemies - Fomorians. In the mythology they represent various natural disasters and powers and haven't clear appearance described, in Dominions they are depicted as misshapen deformed goat-like giants. Their heads are therefore quite detailed, also they have didifferenfur colors. The one-eyed Fomorian is the biggest creature in Dominions, pretty much, so this scale of the models is quite okay.

Some independent figurines, First there are two wizards. One from an academy, one working in secret and dabbling in some vile arts, and he summoned a shade servant. Then there is an Ether Lord from another plane, vine golem, and a crone.

Aztec themed models, both warriors and priests. As these have clean-shaven heads, they aren't that different from each other. There is also some pale witch from their myths.

Not enough models to make cataclysmic battles with this set, but still, they were fun. Making them bigger and more detailed gave them some character the uniformic armies of the last ones lacked.


After this set I started developing some crazy new stuff, that I posted on the Random art thread here on Bay 12. The idea of creating the clothes of the characters outside the base model was in my head for some time, but this year it was truly realized... Kinda.

These guys have almost nothing on their base models, just their bare bodies. All the clothes were made separately. My dream was of making clothes that could be  taken off and on without problem. That is the case only for the legwear, be it shoes, socks or trousers, headwear as well.

For shirts and torso clothing, sleeves must be glued separately after the main piece is already on the body,  and can't be taken off.

My friend priest once asked me to make some biblical papercrafts he could potentially use in some retelling of the Gospel for kids, but the thing was quickly forgotten about. Only two models came out of this, Jesus (obviously), and a random man, who could serve the role of apostle or something.

And these two were the very last papercrafts I made to date. Maybe it was this new technique with the clothes that I found interest in making clothes, and started sewing, who knows.

So that's where the history kind of end.

 I hope you found this interesting, I did. Your insight and perspective on these is quite interesting and quite helpful to me, so thank you.

Well, what to do now... I've shown you the main stuff, but there might be something curious hiding somewhere in the vault, waiting to be re-found... Until then, have a good day!

[King Zultan]

This has been a fascinating thing and I'm glad you decided to share it with us, and I hope you find inspiration to make more of these things in the future.

Also it has inspired me to try to make my own thing, that hopefully I'll actually start on soon rather than think about starting it but do nothing instead.

[zubb2]

I'm just gonna necro this post then dissapear for another 8 years.

Beautifull.
I love these papercrafts and I will be taking inspiration for my own project.
I might still do my clay models, but these are right cute and I like them.
Honestly I didn't read all this thread, but whatever.

[Quaksna]

Glad to hear that. I don't plan on making more, though I would love to do something similar, I was thinking of some sort of puppets I could sew little clothes on, but hadn't find suitable material for the base bodies yet. As for this thread, I might necro it myself someday, I kinda want to delve deeper into that board game thing from the first post, that could be fun, cuz I don't remember much about it, only that it was quite a big thing.

This is why I think it's extremely important to preserve your old works, because however crappy in hindsight they might be, they represent what you was at the time, and when you compare them (and yourself) with the present, the progress is all the more apparent. So say no to parents and landlords, and hoard this stuff  Yeah looking back some of this might be over ten years old, wow.

Enough have I babbled already, but! You spoke about clay models. I would love to check them out, are there anywhere for us to see?

[EuchreJack]

Very nice, thanks for sharing.  I especially liked the Megabeasts.

[Quaksna]

Ohoho watchers are flocking, quick, quick! 

Was kinda bored, so delved into depths of the papercrafts of old. Here's what I found:

Spoiler: The coveted board game (click to show/hide)

First, we have to pick up a tea box holding the models from the ancient vault. Should be a small one, if memory serves.

Nope, that's army of Jotuns from Dominions.

Here we go. A highly unpractical Earl Grey box...

With this stupid removable cover piece I had to glue back in.

Yet however inferior this box had, it was still able to host the whole game in it. The papercrafts at least. From various buildings to small critters, everything fitted in and was easily transportable.

I would like to get the cards and board as well, though, so we must check the other ancient vault.

I did cover it a bit in Random art thread, this one has drawings in stores. But now, I am not seeking pictures...

But the three sacred folders...

The first holding cards and tokens...

The second does frog comics of old...

And the third does board games. I've just realized my room resembles a Slavic folktale... It is in this third folder, I can uncover the cards.

As you can see, they're of upmost quality I can't draw.

And this is the board. I remember having two, the first being just plain white with these checkers, and a lot smaller than this one. This one has a desert theme going on. I think the terrain didn't do anything, other than that water spots were impassable for some creatures.

It was kinda basic game, the variety came in all the different units but the overall rules were simple. I can't recall everything about it, for it has been a long time ago, but I remember enough - Two players would divide the cards into two decks. At the start of the game they would have a number already in hand, and each subsequent turn they would draw new ones. By using cards you could place units, buildings, or cast spells.

There was a "claiming" mechanic, when opponent's building had your units next to them and none of theirs, you would seize it over turn and could use it to your benefits. This added and interesting dynamic, as many units can be summoned only from certain buildings, and a lot of the time one player would have the unit and the other the building. But because of this claiming, that didn't mean no one could use those cards, it was essential for one player to seize the building and for the other to defend it, and prevent the opponent from gaining units. The one last standing wins.

So let's see what cards and models we have here.

I am pretty sure these were the first ones to be made - The swamp of Blobiness and Blob of the Swamp. The sole usage of the swamp is as a summoning ground, so it needed to be placed strategically, close to the opponent to spout units but not too much so that they couldn't rush and seize it.

The blob is a bulky unit with 14 hp, 2 dmg, 1 speed, like many of the slime-themed creatures, with lots of hitpoints, weaker attack potential and pretty slow, but it can attack all units next to it, not just one, which can be useful. This one also reduces damage taken, all attacker with attack 2 do 1 dmg instead. It can be only summoned from the aforementioned swamp, and takes 1 turn from usage to be placed onto the board.

Another two of the first models, Ancient Giant and Parthenon of Zouba. Now Zouba is a misheard name from the Czech dub of Warcraft III, namely the one line from the ogre units: "It's clobbering time!". In the Czech version, they say something else instead, and to be honest, I am still not sure what My best guess is "I am ready(the smart head), and my name is Stoupa(the dumb head, misheard as Stoupa)". For me as a kid that was the funniest thing ever, so with all things ogre, with Q'uaksna involved, expect Zouba to be lurking somewhere. I guess in the universe of this game he's some kind of ogre ancestor deity.

The Parthenon is a summoning ground, but can also heal nearby ogre and giant units. The Ancient Giant, similarly to the blob, needs it for its usage, but unlike the blob it gets on the board instantly, only it's inactive for a round, placed in the Parthenon (can be attacked though). It's a very powerful unit, 11 hp, 5 dmg, speed 2, and reduces damage of spells and magic attacks by 1.

Two spells, Infinite wisdom (boosting magic attacks and other spells for three rounds on certain squares), and Firebreeze, dealing area fire damage. The firestorm is cast by a bird called Amon, which has its model, though isn't in the game itself, just a piece of lore for this silly game.

Ancient Obelisk and Cobra. The obelisk doesn't do anything itself, though it is quite big so might serve as a obstruction. Cobra gets a boost if the obelisk is under the same player, +2hp and 1dmg, its base stats are 7hp, 15mp, 3dmg, 2 speed. It can apparently use a spell, some sort of hypnosis, but it is not explained on the card. I guess unit abilities were written somewhere else, so the effect, cooldown and mp cost aren't here, but I'm sure it was some sort of temporary mind control spell.

An ancient stadium, Thróks and Hoplamachi (corrupted names of the gladiator types they're based on).  Both units need the stadium to be summoned, and have the same stats- 6hp, 3dmg, 2 speed, with Hoplamachi having slash and pierce def 1, and a bonus against cavalry which doesn't exist xD

Monument of Fatness and Mudslime Swarm. The monument gives attack bonus to ogres and giants in certain radius. The swarm needs to be summoned from some sort of swamp, its stats are no longer readable sadly. Also its model was lost, it was a brown puddle with a bunch of small blobs with mouths onto it.

Wisps and scholar. The wisps need a particular miraculous swamp to be summoned, have 3hp and dmg, 5 mp, 2 speed. They can cast Blinding Light, so that's probably some sort of a stun. Can regen their mp, 1 point every two turns. The scholar can use certain buildings to learn spells (I have deciphered a healing spell, some sort of a buff, and banishment, sounds pretty rad) over turns. He has 2 hp, 5 mp, 2 speed, and can't perform regular attacks.

This looks like a miraculous swamp, I guess.

Tribal Clubber, and Ivory Boar. These don't have any special properties, only the boar deals 8 damage after moving. I guess there were some rules for combat, like AoW style flanking when you try to disengage, and that a faster unit strikes first, so combat probably took place after both players finished their turns, I can't really remember. The boar has 11hp,1mp for some reason, 4dmg, 2spd.

There were multiple of these tribal clubbers, only the orange one was tied to a car though. The green and yellow one served as starting units, one for each player. They all have 8hp, 2dmg, 2spd. Then there's this red one, which is supposed be a chieftain, I remember he has more hitpoints but only 1dmg, and a shaman, but for the lack of cards, no idea what the stats were.

Foul Emulsion and Deadly Mudbed. Another Warcraft III reference, the official Azure TD had really funny unit name translations, these two being one of these. I remember a third one, The Slime of the Underworld, which was supposed to be the ultimate/titan slime unit.

The Emulsion is stationary, though it has some ability that should allow it to move under certain conditions. It can strike all around itself, 9hp, 1mp, 1dmg, and gets +2hp if around a swamp. It has a second spell called "Drown", so possibly it can drag enemy units onto itself for extra damage? Don't know. It does regen mp, one point per three turns.

The Mudbed is a very interesting unit. Not only it covers 2x1 squares, so it's damage all around ability is even more useful, but it functions as a mobile swamp, therefore you can spawn other slime units, like the Mudslime Swarm right from it. It has also a spell, supposedly trapping enemy units in it. The stats are not very well readable, but I remember it being really hardy unit. Also does regen mp.

Sewer Crawler and Glob Hurler. The Crawler is very basic, only can attack all around like other slimes, has 11hp, 3dmg, 1 speed, and doesn't need a building, so it's pretty useful. The Hurler is stationary, gets the same +2hp bonus around swamp like emulsion, it can attack one tile further, and use a Shrapnel spell once. Otherwise has 6hp, 1dmg.

Two frog units, because of course. A horned Toad, and Mythical Croak. The toad has 10 hp, 2dmg boosted to 5 if charging, 2 speed. It needs to be summoned from a swamp, which when around it gets +1dmg boost. It regenerates one hitpoint per turn. A very cool unit, but couldn't find it's model.

The Croak is pretty basic, only has range2, 8hp, 2dmg, 2 speed.

Annoying Peeper and Ogre Rebel. The Peeper can't move, has 7hp, 5mp, 3dmg which it can divide between three enemy units, also has range 3. Can use some sort of stun ability called Annoying Stare, and regenerates mp 1 per one round.

The rebel has +1 physical def against one engaged unit of choice. It can use some warcry ability, and needs to be summoned from Weaponry tent, which doesn't seem to have card. Can't tell the stats.

Slime Mage and Furry Beholder. The Mage can only be summoned from the miraculous swamp, has range 2, 6hp, 5mp, 3dmg, 1 speed. Can cast a few spells, one healing Slime units and the others trapping enemies. Regenerates mp 1 per one turn. He's one of my favorites I have to say, like the design. The name is probably from Warcraft translation too.

The beholder doesn't have much worth of note, 11hp, 2dmg, 2 speed.

Two very powerful units, the Archwizard and Emerald Scarab. The Archwizard, has range 3, 8hp, 15mp, though no recorded spells, 5dmg, 2 speed, so a heavy hitter from afar. The Scarab is a ridiculously strong tank, with 22 hp, 5 dmg, 2 speed, and 1def against pierce, magic, and fire damage. What a beast. I think these high tier cards were divided separately from the rest, to ensure that each player got a share and one couldn't get them all.

A Crystal Tree and a Crystal Jammer. No description here, the tree was probably meant to be some sort of a summoning ground, and the Jammer would block spells, I guess. Could still be used as obstructions.

Marble Giant, and an unused smaller version of him. This was the most powerful unit in the game, with 41hp, 7dmg, 2 speed. Though it is not on the card, I remember to use it one had to have control of two particular buildings.

Debris and obstructions, randomly placed onto the board.

A bunch of crystal-themed unit, maybe were supposed to be a new faction. A living tree, faerie dragon, a wizard, golem, and some debris.

There was also factions of Celtic/Norse look, and I think we did play with these models, but I have no cards of them. There's a thug, a druid spellcaster, this Stonehenge-like building, and a goat. The goat was definitely a unit in the game at a point.

Then there was this orange wizard with two attack types, ranged and melee, and could summon a sulfur golem. I think this one was another starting unit for one player, the other one would get the Tribal Chieftain and Shaman.

An unused dragon-like model.

And that's it folks. But you know what? I think I might be interested in papercrafts again  This was quite a ride for me, and just seeing all this compact stuff, I once again see the appeal of the super easy maintenance and model creation. Might resurrect this project, or make a new one. Hope you found this curious, have a nice day!

[King Zultan]

If you do start making more of these things you should show them to us.

[Yellow Pixel]

I like the diversity of the paper figurines in your board game. They are definitely more crude than your more recent papercrafts, but in spite of that, they are quite detailed and I find that they often give off a cool air of ferocity.

Among all the critters, my favorite are the faerie dragon, that I consider cute but threatening, and the Amon Bird, because of its special shape and patterns, even if I know these two weren't really part of the game... I also imagine that it was nice for you as a kid, when you picked the Firebreeze card, to take the fire birdie, and make it fly above the board to send waves of fire on your ennemies.

Finally, I must admit that the Slime Mage has an appealing design with its curved body and arms, and if you make a come back into papercrafting, I think that such pronounced folding would an interesting technique to exploit.