Topic: Gameboard built with Poly Styrene/Insulation Boards

[Baba John]

I was asked the other night if one could use Styrofoam to build a Gaming table...
My answer was yes. So next day I started building one in the shop for our customers to play on.
First layer done. I am gluing the pieces together by melting them slightly with Lacquer Thinners.
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Take your time and be careful with that bread/hobby-knife. It gets stuck often.
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Starting with the textures.
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Build permanent scenery onto the board.
Don't be scared of a project like this, Practice makes perfect.

Photos were take by Alan Kent, my Shop Manager.
Removed some Pictures so I can add some later.


Now we start adding colour and fine sand.
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This now became a bit of a rush job as the Guys/Gals wanted to play on it last night.


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[Blackveil]

nice. about how much did it cost total? i am in need of a game board.

[Mads R]

Looks really good. What kind of games do you intend to play on it?

[Mortalis]

Looks pretty sweet. good to see people making boards with actual depth to them

Is that a river bed I see? going to do some watersss?

~Morty TG

[Baba John]

nice. about how much did it cost total? i am in need of a game board.

Time - 3 Days so far.
Insulation Board - Scrap scrounged from a local building site.         FREE
Sand picked up in the road after a storm.                                        FREE
5 liters  Lacquer Thinners                                                                 $ 10.00
3 liters of Wrongly mixed colours at local hardware                         $   9.00
2.5 kg Casting Resin                                                                         $ 25.00   

Total cost so far                                                                                $ 44.00   

I took the liberty of converting South African Rands _ Dollars @ R7.50 = $1.00     

Looks pretty sweet. good to see people making boards with actual depth to them

Is that a river bed I see? going to do some watersss?

~Morty TG

You can see the picture's in the Gallery or here: http://s646.photobucket.com/albums/uu188/BabaJohn/My%20Work/

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Looks really good. What kind of games do you intend to play on it?

Warhammer, Warhammer40k & D&D

[Mortalis]

Looks pretty nice.

the water looks cool too

~Morty TG

[moc065]

Lovely board, I will look into why your not able to post more pictures in here... but something you might try is to simply have URL links to your photobucket pictures with the thumbnail as the linking device. I can post 30+ pictures in this manner and have never had an issue...

I only mention this as I though your work was very good, and others might learn from your experience.

Nice touch with the bridge btw, I would love to hear how you modeled that little gem.

Cheers

[Baba John]

Here they are in the building up stage.

   

Trimming the edges

 

Texturing

                     

Scenery

             

OK, now that seams to be working... so I will PM the op and post a sticky on to post pictures in this format in order to bypass the limit imposed by posting direct links to user gallery pictures within 40Kol...

moc065

[Baba John]

Lovely board, I will look into why your not able to post more pictures in here... but something you might try is to simply have URL links to your photobucket pictures with the thumbnail as the linking device. I can post 30+ pictures in this manner and have never had an issue...

I only mention this as I though your work was very good, and others might learn from your experience.

Nice touch with the bridge btw, I would love to hear how you modeled that little gem.

Cheers

I will build another one so you can see how it was done.....next week,

[moc065]

Look at you last post with pics... I did the entire collection of pictures within that one post... I will PM you on the how to for this, as my kung fu is not any greater than yours, I just used a coded method that the program does not see as excessive imagry.

Cheers.

[Mads R]

This is just getting better and better. I second that the rivers look great - it'll be a blast to play on the table

[Baba John]

ThanX
I am still working on it. (click to enlarge)

Here it is with the flock done and some trees added.

A bridge needs a Troll.
Have fun.

Edited the post to have pics within thumbnails... as it helps those witholder computers.
Cheers ~~ moc065

[NewHeretic]

It's looking extremely nice. 

NewHeretic

[Mortalis]

Thats coming along really well

Now I see the scale of that bridge I really do like it.

~Morty TG

[Marlec]

This is going to be a great looking board!

About the bushes along the river... what did you use to make them? twine?(surely not...). They kind of stand out (maybe because of the flash?) they should been basecoated in darker green, the actual green could be the highlights... I'm not complaining, just constructive criticism...

I really like the fact that you seems the have combined different colores for the grass... looks great! maybe that's why the bushes bugged me...

Marlec