thatnicguy

looks great, one of my mates just got the crew, they are different but i dont think people will refuse to play you or anything, hes not that nasty! although nix seems downright impossible to kill!

i hate austringers! my brother has two... will look forward to seeing your ryle, i may put some pics of mine on my gaming board thread (as an excuse for lack of progress)

They look awesome, love the bases, i got the coryphee paintjob to work finally btw, so sorry i'l hang on to them after all cant wait to face those at the next tourn

love that as a desperate merc proxy, great fig

is that a question? yes all the foam is getting covered with thin card it wont all have pins, the bigger areas of card im trying to add texture by drawing/pressing tile patterns in with a biro before sticking the card down, then highlighting those patterns when i paint em (i havent finished one of those areas yet, they will take a bit of work)

My gunslinger is my favourite fig, when you put yours up i'l try get a pic of mine up. canine remains look great

Forgot to mention, for those who dont know the pins are an awesome cheat, i painted that small piece of terrain in about fifteen min all up, thats why the colours are so similar. Quick run down, i started with the grey floor, mixed the colour and brushed it on, then added a bit of green and a bit of blue to the mix and coated the pipes, quick rinsed the brush and went back to the plain grey but added just blue and a touch more black and coated the back, all the colours are on a decent size palete and still wet (using house paint not model!) so then went back added a bit of white (off white) to each and gave each surface a rough highlight, rinsing the brush in between each. mixed up a dark red for the band around the pipe same quick highlight and all done. Gave it ten to dry and went back to it with a worn down old sanding block, quick light sand all over gives all the painted stuff an aged look and takes the paint off the heads of all the pins, it really is cheating

yay after taking a pic of my spay-melted test terrain i was motivated to finish it, threw card over the foam and brush undercoated it yesterday morning before heading out and got a chance to paint it today. first pic is awful forgot to flick the flash off macro lens with the flash on seems to show more mistakes and imperfections than my naked eye can see... and painted, will add some small details later, im thinkin at least one pack of malifaux rats would look great in some little dark corners cant wait to get another game in on it, iv gotten heaps done this weekend but will probably wont get more pics up till midweek, post is doin its job though, i dont think i would have got nearly as much done if i wasnt putting it up for all to see

we are treating them as a height one climbable feature there wide enough that a 30mm fig can balance on top but its a bit hairy! we keep a lump of bluetack on the side of the board to use, running along the top of the pipes is a must i will do some gantry/walkways on top of some of the pipes once they'v been painted plus another smashed section or two

Ha! we did joke about some mario bros pipe rules! at least one piece of terrain will be just the classic green pipe

that pic quality is fine, nice job, like the highlighting on the back of his pants/robe(?) I just like that style, bring on kiraii

Update. have got heaps done, i ran out of dressmaking pins so i started undercoating, i had been talking to a workmate about using my work spraygun to undercoat the table (3000psi airless spraygun..) discussed pressure, what size tip to use, what mix of paint in the end chickened out i picked up a couple of spraypack cans of black acrylic undercoat. luckily i had made a piece of terrain for the board and i tested the spray on it before the main board, acylic spray melts polystyrene the same as oil based. im sure i knew this but im really forgetful, so i sealed the exposed poly on the main board with pva and went ahead with spraying most of the board before i ran short of paint. The pva did nothing so i had to stop trying to cut corners and cover all the exposed poly with thin card. I started off painting the lowest level of the board, im goin to have just the lowest level covered with water effects but wont do that till near the end. in my head i had picture a blue/green floor i actually painted about a third of the board before deciding it looked crap and goin with the stone/beige colour, im goin to paint/draw a tile pattern hear and there like you would see on a rough building or landscape plan, i want it to look like the water has flooded a space it wasnt meant to and drawing patches of tiles will (hopefully!) look like the water has been there for a bit you cant see the floor perfectly.. we will see was really happy with how quickly i could paint it up, i got a decent sized brush more for painting sample colours on peoples walls than hobby stuff, that and the fact that its all flat surfaces made it really easy hopefully i can keep up the pace, the hard part will be once all the big surface are painted and i start to add some details!

thanks, i keep saying sewer but its more like underground pipe interchange station its ninja turtles+hellboy+futuramas old new york

Managed to get heaps done to the board this week and a test game or two. I played my brothers guild on it, had a great game he used justice i used the victorias, we got a two all draw.. (does the game keep goin if one side loses all figs? i lost my last fig turn six and my brother wasnt on his 'stake a claim' we joked that if the game went two more turns he could walk it in, we did the flips for the game continuing and managed to go to turn eight!!) my idea for the board is to make a heap of makeshift ladders and piled up junk, i didnt want models to have to head to a ladder to get up onto a level, before the game we decided that the pipes would count as an inch high and all the boxes (slightly different heights) would be 2" high, the tall rectangular shapes are 5" and we decided that you would only be able to get up them if you could do it in one move action (this may need to get changed it might raise problems if someone can get up there with flight or arachnid and be untouchable, though to do it the other way takes the advantage away from arachnids etc!) One thing that came up that i would love opinions and ideas on was charging up or down the levels, if you can see someone from on one of the boxes to the ground or vice versa should you be able to charge down the two inch or charge up? the game we had we played it that you could charge up and down, kept it simple and as long as it applied to both players it worked fine, still would appreciate thoughts have made heaps of progress on board will post some pics over the weekend, i ran out of dress pins so i started painting what i had finished, chuffed with how it looks but it says alot about how i work half is still foam while i start to finish the painting on parts on the first half

good call, i shouild have thought of that, thanks

The bottom of the board is a product called MDF? its made from sawdust, they take the sawdust mix it with a bonding glue and smush it into a shape. I get the 5mm thick sheet which is pushing my luck, it can warp if your unlucky but the 3x3 size i dont think it will. I manage to get one which was the right width and only had to make one cut to get it to size.

aww the blood ones are AWESOME! thats gross!

Hey,my names nic im from perth in western australia. Im working in a new gaming table. im notorious for starting new tables with big ideas then getting crap (even from my wife!) for not finishing them. So i decided that im gonna throw up photos and do a little post on what im doin to motivate me to carry it thru to the end. let me know what you think so this is the basic constuction, i work in the building industry as a painter as such i have access to tons of paint and plenty of tools which carry over to the hobby. The cardboard tube is all from a local fabric and free, the foam from friends and brother. a more aerial veiw, there will be about half a dozen pieces of terrain made separate to the board which will fill in the bigger gaps as required this one has hans in it for a scale reference. the foam is all getting thin card glued over and dressmaking pins stuck in for bolts plan to do lots of different textures and colours (although same tone, limited palete) mostly to pick out each 'block' of terrain for strats/schemes needs playtesting i'l post how that goes and try and get some regular updates as it takes shape.