Seriously considering getting myself a sheet of ply and some other bits of wood and building a board, well two if you consider it would be two 4x4's
Would need to borrow a drill...
and some skills...
and would be better if i had a table to put it on.
meh details
The reasoning? Thought about painting some terrain, but would ideally need a table to match the terrain to. Well when I say terrain, I mean 4 ruin pieces that need basing.
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Been thinking of building a board myself, but need to wait till I move and got room in my flat to put it. On a plus note, my two future flatmates are also hobbyists, so i'm sure I'll have help.
ReplyDeleteGoing back to your point. Have you thought about making a board but, but modular enough that you could take it to Primarchs with you?
The problem with that is I don't drive. And I don't really fancy lugging sections of plywood around with me. It's not heavy, but still... And also it would be mostly for home use and I don't have a suitably sized table to put sections on.
ReplyDeleteNot going to be anything special, just a piece of ply with bracing covered in sand and flock. Boring green ftw.
And probably going to just make it as 1 6x4 section.
Oddly enough though, DIY places expect you to pick up all this stuff. Why does no one deliver!!
As an addendum would prob be easier to just pick up gw's effort but...
ReplyDeletea) it's expensive
b) it's plastic. This is good as it's light. But the hills, omg the hills and models sliding down them.
c) skulls, seriously wtf. Can be filled in, but still.
If you look round charity shops, i'm sure you'll be able to find a cheap, possible even fold-away table you can use as a base for a home gaming set-up.
ReplyDeleteJust don't flock it. Seriously, no matte rhow careful you are that bloody stuff gets everywhere and will not all go up the hoover, no matter how hard you try. Also, if you just leave it as sand, it leaves you free to try a variety of board types, just by changing up what scatter terrain you use, like cityfight, desert, ruins, forest, etc.
Personally when i get my board, i'm making an ice world, which'll match my SW's, CSM's and Dark Elves
Just to add, even though i know you probably won't get one is that if you sand/flock a gw board, models don't tend to slide down hills. Been doing a lot of research on them, as me and one of my flatmates might be going halves on one
I've been pondering it too because though I have the GW battle boards I want to build a fixed layout table.
ReplyDeleteAlso, there is a smaller DIY place behind where B&Q is and they will cut boards to size and I think they will deliver as well.