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Author Topic: Pretty cool solution for a river/canyon terrain piece.  (Read 2041 times)

Offline Hammers

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Pretty cool solution for a river/canyon terrain piece.
« on: August 22, 2017, 09:09:17 AM »

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Re: Pretty cool solution for a river/canyon terrain piece.
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2017, 09:13:38 AM »
While it looks nice, one bump on any of those tables and that's falling straight down with a thump! :o Watch your toes, that's a big piece of resin! :o

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Re: Pretty cool solution for a river/canyon terrain piece.
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2017, 09:19:35 AM »
Yeah; I'd prefer to support that big lump with some struts or whatever...

But still; the idea has merit. After all, the biggest issue with tabletop terrain is not the convex, but rather concave terrain, as tables are (for the most part anyway ::) ) solid flat surfaces.

Hammers' example looks really nice btw... 8)
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Re: Pretty cool solution for a river/canyon terrain piece.
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2017, 09:25:17 AM »
While it looks nice, one bump on any of those tables and that's falling straight down with a thump! :o Watch your toes, that's a big piece of resin! :o

Well, aren't you Mr The Glass is Half Empty today! ;)

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Re: Pretty cool solution for a river/canyon terrain piece.
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2017, 09:26:21 AM »

Hammers' example looks really nice btw... 8)

I should have written it is not of my making.

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Re: Pretty cool solution for a river/canyon terrain piece.
« Reply #5 on: August 22, 2017, 09:27:38 AM »
Oh I got that, but you're the one posting it, so it's your example... :D

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Re: Pretty cool solution for a river/canyon terrain piece.
« Reply #6 on: August 22, 2017, 10:04:31 AM »
While it looks nice, one bump on any of those tables and that's falling straight down with a thump! :o Watch your toes, that's a big piece of resin! :o

Easily prevented just by running a couple of straps around the neighbouring legs of each of the tables so that they can't be moved apart.

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Re: Pretty cool solution for a river/canyon terrain piece.
« Reply #7 on: August 22, 2017, 11:33:31 AM »
Strapping the legs together is a great solution.

There's also no reason the lip can't be wider so if things do move it takes a larger movement to cause a real problem.

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Re: Pretty cool solution for a river/canyon terrain piece.
« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2017, 05:06:23 PM »
I like the terrain.
I have played around with something like what is posted.
Never really got the look I was after.
Now will have to revisit the idea.
Thanks for posting.
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Re: Pretty cool solution for a river/canyon terrain piece.
« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2017, 05:17:14 PM »
It is a brilliant and elegant solution, and avoids having to place built-up terrain over the entire board. I like it!

It also looks like it was purpose-built for those particular tables. Fine for a club, but harder to implement on the fly at new locations. Unless you carry your own tables to conventions as well.

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Re: Pretty cool solution for a river/canyon terrain piece.
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2017, 06:25:28 PM »
I like the idea! Looks cool and solves most issues with tables.

There's also no reason the lip can't be wider so if things do move it takes a larger movement to cause a real problem.

My thoughts too. I think it's the easiest solution.

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Re: Pretty cool solution for a river/canyon terrain piece.
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2017, 07:21:26 PM »
heck if you have dedicated tables you could make a peg and hole system so the rivers slots into the tables.

Man this looks very cool, from the side is probably the worst shot though! Imagine the "regular" tabletop view.
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Re: Pretty cool solution for a river/canyon terrain piece.
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2017, 07:46:05 PM »
Interesting approach, thanks for posting that.

While it offers a good approach to rivers/canyons, I'm also thinking that with different height tables a linking 'hillside' would avoid the billiard table look and help provide a terrain solution I need.  Hmmmm.....
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Re: Pretty cool solution for a river/canyon terrain piece.
« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2017, 07:52:18 PM »
Indeed. Very good idea and realy worth looking into. Thanks for sharing. ;-)

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Re: Pretty cool solution for a river/canyon terrain piece.
« Reply #14 on: August 23, 2017, 12:23:46 AM »
Looks like it might have some built in clamps on the underside to lock it in place on both sides.

 

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