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Post by c0d3monk33 on Oct 4, 2005 8:57:45 GMT 12
Well, this is what I've been doing instead of painting my NZers this week. I started a North African table! (Augh, I started ANOTHER project without finishing something else first???)  |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Oct 4, 2005 12:11:27 GMT 12
looking good. Is that going to be a static table? (like, are all the hills and stuff going to be fixed in place?)
I might count all my unfinished projects one day
...but maybe not, counting them would end up as an unfinished project itself. oooh! too cerebral
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Post by c0d3monk33 on Oct 4, 2005 12:34:29 GMT 12
Mostly static. All the hills you see above will be glued and textured into place. Then I want to have moveable stuff like additional 'rises' embedded with those trenchworks, villages made from white-washed buildings (still thinking about masters) etc.
The final 6 section table can also be juggled around in different layouts for gaming variety.
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Post by PitYak Studios on Oct 4, 2005 14:10:06 GMT 12
Reminds me of a very similar 6 section wwII table I made when I was about 10. I can still remember it clearly. Made from poly ceiling tiles, it all worked fine, I was building it at my nana's house at the weekend. To be extra cunning I made a couple of river sections, with the poly carved out to form a sunken river bed with scale banks. Painted it up, went home, came back the following weekend and the thinner river sections had warped in the heat, and looked something like prawn crackers. The other sections were fine though. It was painted in a lovely grass green gloss emulsion. It was based on an actual field of battle I got out of a book, no idea which one now though.
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Post by c0d3monk33 on Oct 4, 2005 15:30:28 GMT 12
Yeah flexing is a hassle. That's why I based these large tiles on 12mm MDF rather than the 3mm MDF I used for the 1'x1' Mordheim tiles...those canal sections flex really badly  ... |
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Post by PitYak Studios on Oct 4, 2005 17:45:12 GMT 12
pretty annoying, since it typically doesn't happen until you're finished
Are you using the tongue and groove on the foam, or is it just coincidence that it's there on the edges?
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Post by c0d3monk33 on Oct 4, 2005 20:05:20 GMT 12
Ah the tongue and groove was on the foam board and I forgot to patch it before cutting. I actually hot wired the tongue off the sides of each board before cutting the hills. I think I'll just PVA it back into the groove and do a bit more cutting to hide the join.
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