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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Prof.Witchheimer on May 25, 2008, 07:58:17 PM
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Last weekend my good friend Grimm has visited me and I have been teached how to build a gaming table. I mean, a really good one, not that boring stuff I used to make in the past. We had really great time, drunk gallons of beer, we ate good, had lots to laugh and talk, I learned hunderts and one things about terrain building and we've managed to build a lovely (and huge 4,20x1,80m :o) gaming table. The german "division" of the Lead Adventure Club will play on it end of july.
Grimm, mate, thank you, you are an inspiration!
check out the gallery fro the step-by-step pics
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=gallery;su=user;cat=52;u=3
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/0/3_25_05_08_8_43_55_34.JPG)
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Awesome (and enormous!)
Grimm looks very serious and happy in those pictures. Good luck with the rest of construction, and happy gaming with it!
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That's quite the chunk of real estate! 8) Any plans to raise it off the floor or all you all members of the 'SKAAB' club? (Sore Knees and Aching Backs!) lol
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Very inspirational!
The photo's make a nice tutorial, it is a pity I don't have the space to store such a table. Maybe I should start with a small one.....
DJ
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Great table!
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Holy Moley!
What a table!
Looks like it probably took a least a couple of crates of beer to build!
Well done.
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Definately a good one.
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Outstanding!
And just the inspiration I needed to get back to my terrain project. :)
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Ah, I knew Grimm was a good sort! Not only is he extraordinarily talented, but he's also in the goatee club.
Splendid lol
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:o
Superb work guys. What wargaming is all about
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Spiffy stuff there!
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That's a pretty good deal there Professor. From what I can see, all the pictures show Grimm hard at work building you a table and you're always behind the camera. lol
Looks like a great board and I can't wait to see pictures with games running on it.
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First, I need a garage.
Second, I have to catch a Grimm in it.
Seems to be useful having both at hand.
Nice work! ;)
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First, I need a garage.
Second, I have to catch a Grimm in it.
Exactly my two problems. :D
By the way, outstanding work.
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Great work there from Grimm and having seen some of his terrain at TACTICA it must be awesome.
A couple of questions though:
1) I assume the wood strips are to protect the edges, did you protect the underside with anything?
2) Could the large cliff area have been made from a wooden structure and then faced with thinner foam to possibly make it stronger and lighter?
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1) I assume the wood strips are to protect the edges, did you protect the underside with anything?
no
2) Could the large cliff area have been made from a wooden structure and then faced with thinner foam to possibly make it stronger and lighter?
it's possible for sure but I think it's too much work and hardly lighter. We've made the cliffs from polystyrene, it's light enough.
but I'm just the trainee, we're better waiting for the Grimm's reply :)
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I'd prefer the gras edges a little thinned out, but overall great board :)
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Ah the pictures :D
Look like you are happy with the tabel , Prof.
) I assume the wood strips are to protect the edges, did you protect the underside with anything?
No ! why ? the material is hard enugh only the edges must protect.
with more the board will be to outweigh .
2) Could the large cliff area have been made from a wooden structure and then faced with thinner foam to possibly make it stronger and lighter?
sure :)
Grimm
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Ok, Grimm.
I have a garage. I need a wargame table.
When will you come and start building? :D
My favourite pic is:
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/0/3_25_05_08_8_43_50_12.JPG)
lol lol
When looking at that picture I always have the vision of Alex sitting in a comfy chair, bottle of beer in one hand, camera in the other, snapping the one or other pic, and you at work ...
When you build my table, I swear to give you a hand (sometimes).
:D
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Did you guys play with whipcreme :D
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Reason for the question about skinning the underside of the boards was for protection if the boards are used outside of the home - even bluefoam can be damaged or twist.
On building the "cliffs" with a wood frame - I saw Grimm's excellent 'Lost World' game at Tactica and thought that the figures could have been easily stored out of the way on shelves inside the back of the cliff.
Food for thought if I ever get round to finishing something that needs terrain.
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Truly fantastic work, guys!
I tip my hat in salute to my Teutonic brethren who have inspired me to go start on something in the other room this very minute!
Gotta go!
UncleRhino
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:o Fantastic table guys, now to organise a team to kidnapp Grimm, bring him to blighty, and bribe him with more beer and more tables will follow lol lol
Cheers
Fritzy
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:o Fantastic table guys, now to organise a team to kidnapp Grimm, bring him to blighty, and bribe him with more beer and more tables will follow lol lol
Cheers
Fritzy
Its already been organised ;)
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:o Fantastic table guys, now to organise a team to kidnapp Grimm, bring him to blighty, and bribe him with more beer and more tables will follow lol lol
Its already been organised ;)
Guess I'll have to get my team there earlier to beat the British one. ;D
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Is this the beginnings of another .45 Adventure scenario?
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Is this the beginnings of another .45 Adventure scenario?
A British team and an American team race to "liberate" Grimm from his forced servitude under the Professor. Plied with beer, Grimm was easily manipulated. But his services are valuable to two nations, which will get him off the board first. To get Grimm to join a team, a model must be within 3" and beat Grimm in a comparative BRAINS test. Grimm will stay with that model unless it is engaged in combat or rendered unconscious OR if the opposing model has Beer. But both teams will have to face off against The Professor as well.
Some Encounter Markers:
1.) Beer. This marker subtracts 2 from Grimm's BRAINS score and makes him more easy to convince to leave with the player who has it.
2.) New, unreleased Murch Pulp figures. Subtract 1 from Grimm's BRAINs score as he is lured by the new shiny toys.
3.) TRAP! Grimms Refuse: The professor has cunningly stored bits of styrofoam into a cheap plastic bag. When you reach this encounter, the bag bursts open and blinds the model with styrofoam pellets. The model loses its next activation.
4.) TRAP! Let me Show you my painted figs: The Professor distracts the model by offering to show off his painted miniatures. The model that triggers this trap automatically loses its next activation and must pass a BRAINS test to activate on subsequent rounds.
5.) Look a newly found book on Chinese peasant militia in the Back of Beyond. A model that finds this Encounter can cause the Professor to lose his next activation while he peruses this new book and plans his next project.
Any other ideas?
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Is this the beginnings of another .45 Adventure scenario?
A British team and an American team race to "liberate" Grimm from his forced servitude under the Professor. Plied with beer, Grimm was easily manipulated. But his services are valuable to two nations, which will get him off the board first. To get Grimm to join a team, a model must be within 3" and beat Grimm in a comparative BRAINS test. Grimm will stay with that model unless it is engaged in combat or rendered unconscious OR if the opposing model has Beer. But both teams will have to face off against The Professor as well.
Some Encounter Markers:
1.) Beer. This marker subtracts 2 from Grimm's BRAINS score and makes him more easy to convince to leave with the player who has it.
2.) New, unreleased Murch Pulp figures. Subtract 1 from Grimm's BRAINs score as he is lured by the new shiny toys.
3.) TRAP! Grimms Refuse: The professor has cunningly stored bits of styrofoam into a cheap plastic bag. When you reach this encounter, the bag bursts open and blinds the model with styrofoam pellets. The model loses its next activation.
4.) TRAP! Let me Show you my painted figs: The Professor distracts the model by offering to show off his painted miniatures. The model that triggers this trap automatically loses its next activation and must pass a BRAINS test to activate on subsequent rounds.
5.) Look a newly found book on Chinese peasant militia in the Back of Beyond. A model that finds this Encounter can cause the Professor to lose his next activation while he peruses this new book and plans his next project.
Any other ideas?
Excellent ideas! lol
Now, I want to see exactly this scenario presented at one of the next conventions, at least at the German Tactica 2009. Fitting miniatures, anyone?
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Really a brilliant idea...
But what about rewriting the script to this movie :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E32dFE3UgQ&feature=related
:D
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lol Rich. it's great , I have to play it one day lol
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OK that is nice !!
What figures we will use for the Teams, Prof and me ?
BTW the secret of getting me to build you a table is
1. Pay the flight, (if to the US I need two seats ; ) )
2. BiG BBQ
3. BEER BEER BEER !!!
Grimm
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The British strike team is already assembled. We have beer standing by ready. The trouble is discipline within the British team is lacking and the beer will probably get drunk before we board the plane for Germany. lol
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(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/0/3_25_05_08_8_43_50_12.JPG)
Bloody great, mates. Like the others I wish I had my own pet Grimm tethered in the garage by his nose ring. ;-)
By the way, did you really use the white compressed bead styrofoam yype of sheets?! I can't abide the stuff. it breaks, it's messy, it's static and it seeks its way into every imaninable body orifice. I always use pink or blue foam since it is much sturdier and easier to work with.
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it breaks, it's messy, it's static and it seeks its way into every imaginable body orifice.
Good grief Man, what kind of games are you playing on that table?? :o
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it breaks, it's messy, it's static and it seeks its way into every imaginable body orifice.
Good grief Man, what kind of games are you playing on that table?? :o
::) Looking at the picture I think Grimm knows wghat I am talking about...
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Does anyone make a Grimm mini for the scenario, or is it too frightening for any sculptor to try? lol
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By the way, did you really use the white compressed bead styrofoam yype of sheets?! I can't abide the stuff. it breaks, it's messy, it's static and it seeks its way into every imaninable body orifice. I always use pink or blue foam since it is much sturdier and easier to work with.
We only use them for a cliff section and only as a part of a sandwitch with include blue foam and only why we haven´t enugh blue foam.We use also gypsum to cover the white foarm on some parts .
So
NOTE
DON`T USE WHITE FOARM FOR YOUR TABEL !!!!!!!
BTW Hey it looks that I must stard a world tour for tabel building :D
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Thanks for the photo tutorial. I've admired your boards from your battle reports for some time now and it was great to see how you go about making them.
Thanks :D
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Looks like you had great fun! Although I am surprised there are not more photos of Grimm drinking beer! lol
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Looks like you had great fun! Although I am surprised there are not more photos of Grimm drinking beer! Laugh
lol that is why because all other pictures are censored :D
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The table is great. Looks like you had a good time, drank beer, built a table and made a mess great :D
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The British strike team is already assembled. We have beer standing by ready. The trouble is discipline within the British team is lacking and the beer will probably get drunk before we board the plane for Germany. lol
In Germany you`ll encounter team Schnitzelkraut IX, set to keep such a valuble resource like Grimm in country.
But, over beer testing it is decided to clone Grimm...
[to be continued] lol