i like a little bit of goofy in my dioramas and want to make a few comic book boxes or crates full of comics. and maybe some records and things like that. i tried to make a few comics myself but mostly need a fold up comic box diagram to print out.

thank you.

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While they don't have anything in 1/18 scale you might be able to resize their 1/24 file boxes to meet your needs. http://www.printmini.com/printables/ph.shtml

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I haven't done comic books, but I've done novels (Baroness is currently sitting in the Joe HQ's prison reading Crime and Punishment). How I did it should translate to comics fairly well:

1) Find the source material you're wanting to shrink down. For example, for C&P, I found a scan for the dust jacket for one of the releases and downloaded it. I then found the first several chapters of it online (as small as the print is, it really doesn't matter if you use the actual book or not, I just needed something for judging the size of the book as a whole).

2) Using your favorite image editing software, scale the dust jacket or covers to 1:18 for whatever style book you are wanting (ie, paperback, hardback, over-sized, coffee table, etc.) and print it out.

3) Paste the text from step 1 into a Word doc, with paper set to the right size for the style of book selected in step 2. Using a PDF converter (CutePDF, PDFCreator, etc.), print the Word doc to a PDF (alternately, you can use one of the universal converters to go from DOC to JPG).

4) In your favorite PDF viewer or editor, open the above-created PDF and scale it down to print at 5% size. You can get fancy and duplex the print-out, but you have to work at getting the pages to all line up correctly.

5) If you did not duplex in step 4, then cut out the pages printed and glue them together, two each, to create front-to-back pages.

6) Align the pages, then place a staple in the middle. For the novels I've done, it actually overlaps the whole book, rather than piercing it, but it looks okay and kind of gives the figure a place to hold.

7) Glue the cover to the outside of the book, so that it covers the staple.

You now have a book for your figures to read.

thank you guys, Pluv theres lots of stuff i can use there.
MarkM ill have to give that a try. i was just going to do covers but i guess it would be nice to have something inside.like the difference between a donut and a filled donut, or maybe a stuff crust pizza. or whatever now im hungry.

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If you check out my Tribute to a Legend custom, you can see shrunk down comicbooks. Goggle search the image or scan copy the comic cover that you want to use. Save the image as JPEG. In Photoshop, open up the file or files. Next open up a new screen at 7" wide x 10" high, this will be your print window. Copy and paste the covers to the new screen. Using a ruler and a standard piece of paper 8x11, adjust the size of each comic cover. The average comic is 10" x 6.5", your printed mini should fit in the forearm section of a Joe, wrist to elbow. Align the pics in a verticle row on the right with space between each image to cut. A 10" long window can old about 11 images if done in the correct size. When printed out, and the size is correct, fold the paper over on the covers. The image should have the fold on the left side. Cut off the extra paper and then cut off each comic book. Now you have small comics for the Joes to read. Or you can check out the local hobby stores, such as AC Moore's, they sometimes have small scaled comics. Good luck.

Don't know if they still do it, but when I did the stores for Zed, Wowboy, and some others, when I needed 1:18 comic books in them, I just took a scissor to the various old copies of Wizard magazine in the back section and the ad pages, which have small images of comics. Just glue these to some thin card, and you're good to go.

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heres what i made last week.

some old moog and korg synths. a few misfit posters. the comics and boxes, i purposely made the boxes a little shorter than the comics so the comics will stick out and you can see whats in them. and the record crates and records. i havent folded the records yet.
i tried to make actual comics and records with proper back covers. but for probably every 50 things i looked at, maybe one i could find a backshot of. so i gave up on that. and mostly just used the front covers on both sides or put a completely different comic on each side. my taste in music may be odd to most of you. and on the comics i wanted a mixture of classic old covers and goofy covers. and here they are if anyone can use them.

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1:18 moog and synth equipment?

Genius...pure genius. Where were you when I was building bars and clubs?

My top ten favorites has now expanded into 11.

Sweet, on the D&D books. I actually have that Fiend Folio. Maybe I will make a dio of my own work area complete with my reading material, thanks to your sharing. Again, genius.

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Dude this is all awesome. Tremendous work. Especially to crank it out so quickly. I love doing projects that have detail like this, but at the same time find it to be slow going for me. Cap's right though - genius.

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thank you guys.
i want to clear up though that i didnt do the synths. i found papercraft versions online and resized them. the records and comics etc.. i did.
ive always wanted to make a little arcade diorama and a comic store and record store. so ive spent years looking for scaled arcade games and music instruments. and a few months ago i stumbled on papercraft arcdae games and the last few months ive been searching like crazy and making papercraft dio peices. yesterday i folded up some guitar amps. im picturing zartan as a failed punk new wave musician.

Cap. i use to have ALL those AD&D books and about 10 years ago they got borrowed and never returned >:(

drbindy. i jump all over accessories but i suck at actually getting around to making the room to put them in.

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I’m working on anothe chaplains and need a bible to go with the Figure

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I hate the photo bucket vanished pictures, i'd love to see whats being discussed here.

I know I saw a "doll house" bible at hobby lobby. I think there was a cheaper version on either ebay or wish.

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https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R ... _filtering

for $1 I need one of these for my eli custom.

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Joedios.com has a files section with lots of printables I don't know how well they work, but you might be able to find something you like.

http://www.joedios.com/dioramas/browsei ... c=8&page=3