Techpriest Enginseer field manual

Page 2 – The build

In the beginning I started with a search for a proper book to cut up, but gave it up very easy. A book measuring at 274х214х50 millimeters is a hard thing to find, and honestly speaking Cult Mechanicus is all about acquiring knowledge, not destroying it. So I choose to make my own from scratch. I began with the basics – got the measurements from the machine and draw a model for the pages in CorelDRAW. Cutting through 50mm of paper in the desired shape is not easy and it’s definitely harder when you need to be extremely precise. That’s why I never attempted it. By the Omnissiah’s blessing my job grants me access to printing presses, mechanical cutters and presses, so I ordered a die in the exact shape.

I choose 90 g/cm2 paper, it’s the closest thing to the ordinary 80 g/cm2 А4 sheets both in sturdiness and weight. Of course some additional cutting would be required, but creating 3-4 more dies would not be cost-effective for one and I had no way to be sure of the actual extent and shape of the additional processing in order to blindly entrust it to mechanical processing. The rapid response of my colleagues at the printing house supplied me with the material for the main paper body, which I glued together from the insides and the side of the middle cover.