What shall I do?

[Poliorketes]

my 5 cents: If you don't want to paint miniatures, make a table that fits with one of your projects.
- An east africa table with a Kraal.
- A russian village (remember Tashkent? We need a more realistic version)
- If going for temples, why not Pagan in Burma? IIRC you did some Burma stuff. You could equally use this for an Elephant/tiger hunt, if you add some jungle.
- A recently emerged Island with weird sculptures, reminding of dark old gods better left unnamed.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

thanks Helen, thanks guys for your kind words :-) I knew it's worth to ask you, I really love two of your suggestions, Pete's Singapoure is a brilliant idea  and Rhoderic's "Assyrian" Shem is just a direct hit.

my 5 cents: If you don't want to paint miniatures, make a table that fits with one of your projects.

no, actuall I'd like to paint some miniatures but not too much, I dont like to paint an Assyrian army, but some of them as Asshuri palast guards and one chariot for the king, that's really thinkable.  The problem with old projects as always is inspiration :-)

looking forward for more ideas  :mrgreen:

[Lowtardog]

It has to be a pirates den, Tortuga or some such full of dens of depravity, docks bustling with swag and loot, a slave market, ship wrights et al

[Rhoderic]

Glad to be of assistance. That said, I won't feel disappointed if you decide to go with someone else's suggestion instead, because many of them sound awesome, especially "Pulp Singapore".

[Hammers]

Since my wife came back from Zanzibar I have had a plan to build a port town with a similar feel as Stone town. I would however make it fictional and put it further up and out from east African coast. The whole idea would be to have arabs, chinese, africans, europeans and indians co-mingle.

(Madagascar is interesting since it was most likely first colonized by malays from the east rather than by africans or arabs from the west and north as one perhaps would expect.)

[Lurch]

Hi Prof,

I suggest something simple to start with. Maybe a tree or something.

Same way as you teach us to paint only one mini at a time.

Of cours the whole project has to be big, if not even hugh, what is what we expect from you.

It should be a modular table, this keeps it manageable and give more    alternatives for gaming.

As more or less all others, who were at Tactica or saw the pictures in the web, I am still impressed by the mortheim table of Wolfgang.

So my suggestion is to do something similiar, but as a rain forest.

Imagine the buildings would be hills and mountains of different height, covert areas with large trees and many other green stuff. In addition in between tracks and space to place miniatures.

Somewhere a waterfall, somewhere a native village. Small creeks, and a larger river between the tree and mountains.
One or two of the major mountains/hills could be build as "multipart" of two, three or even more layers. So within the mountains could be dungeons and/or caves...

A setting maybe like in the last King Kong movie.

This could be used for adventures like the prof mini, but would work also for pirates and others..

As I said, something simple to start with...

[Le matou rouge]

(Madagascar is interesting since it was most likely first colonized by malays from the east rather than by africans or arabs from the west and north as one perhaps would expect.)

Thief! Thief, Hammers! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!
(the) Madagascar (project  :oops: ) is all mine ! My precioussss :



Seriously, Prof, I think Pete's idea is the best : Singapour is a the mother of all scenery  :roll: a city mixing European and Asian style, industrial (docks) and residential buildings.
But as Chris said, maybe it will be better to start with something more simple & polyvalent. As a first step, I thought of a kind of singaporian jungle /coutryside with bamboo houses (useful with all sorts of pulp, pirate or even Burma settings)

Maybe like this  :mrgreen:  :



meow,
Matt

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Maybe like this  :mrgreen:  :

thought about that one, too, the problem is that piece is in Hamburg by Grimm  

need to build something new and yes something small and simple would be a possibility but no trees, have hunderts of Grimm trees around, need buildings!

[Lowtardog]

OK make a list of;

pick your favourite periods

Pick your favourite miniatures

Then your favourite rules

Score each from favourite to least descending score.
Stay with it

You are bound to come out with a game that has all three e.g. Under the Black flag, your chinese, pirates??


. Now think of good games you have played with them - OK you have visualised it yes...then think of how it could be made better, the options expanded or the best it could probably be by using additional terrain, could be pirate islands (using the example) jungle, reefs and shoals, more ships the great wall of china.

Does that work

[muppetman]

how about interia!
lots of peeps make buildings, how about making the inside.
Maybe the inside of big castle, a tomb or a zeppelin.
I would like to make an underground lab...

[Vanvlak]

Hey, how about a board representing a wargaming convention? 28mm scale players, 2mm scale troops - still a little big, but that's the limit I'd guess. And then you can play the players and have them fight each other on the model model boards.
Is my fever* noticeable?

*Rotten influenza.

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Hey, how about a board representing a wargaming convention? 28mm scale players, 2mm scale troops - still a little big, but that's the limit I'd guess. And then you can play the players and have them fight each other on the model model boards.
Is my fever* noticeable?

*Rotten influenza.

 :: that's really mad  :mrgreen:

[Ironworker]

Here's something to consider.  It's sorta what I do with reguards to terrain.  I go by what I need and what I don't have covered well.  This can either be on a personal level or a group level.  Do you have a game group you play with often?  What areas are that group lacking terrain in terrain?  If one of your regular friends has a great pulp city then making more pulp city stuff isn't going to be all that useful for your group or yourself.  Is there some gap in your terrain that you and your group always wanted to have?

[Admiral Benbow]

Hey Prof, remember you started this:

http://oldwest.witchhunter.net/ ?

My last count were 6 or 7 buildings. It's time to work seriously on that table. And that means to build the town yourself now, with your own scratchbuild buildings, some with interiors, a train plus station, a mine, terrain features, you name it.

Once you finished this project, start some serious frontier town for your other site, Backofbeyond.de.

You should be pretty much engaged for the next months ...  :mrgreen:

[Captain Blood]

Prof, knowing that whatever you do, you will do brilliantly, my suggestion is you do what others have failed to do (or if they've really succeeded, I haven't seen it yet... )

Mountains for wargaming. Specifically, arid mountains.

Yes, people quite often throw in a section of cliff as a backdrop, or place the foot of a mountain in one corner - but a whole table composed of ravines and passes, scree slopes and a dried up river bed or two... Maybe a few rocky outcrops, and a few clumps of conifers...

And playable on, with ledges and pathways, stairs and sangars... Well, it could do you for a whole lot of places - North West Frontier, Old West, Back of Beyond, North Africa, the list goes on...

I've seen people attempt it - but it usually looks pretty unconvincing. In fact it usually looks like a load of irregularly carved polystyrene blocks lumped together...

To carry this off with ingenuity, panache, attention to detail, and to produce a landscape that really looks like mountain country rather than polystyrene and Tetrion... Now that would be something worthy of your attentions...  :wink: