Building a gaming table with Grimm

[Prof.Witchheimer]

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

[knoxville]

I'd prefer the gras edges a little thinned out, but overall great board

[Grimm]

Ah the pictures 
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

[Admiral Benbow]

Ok, Grimm.

I have a garage. I need a wargame table.

When will you come and start building? 

My favourite pic is:



  

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).

 

[Driscoles]

Did you guys play with whipcreme 

[Mindenbrush]

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.

[UncleRhino]

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

[fritzy]

  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

Cheers

 Fritzy

[Malamute]

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

Cheers

 Fritzy

Its already been organised

[Operator5]

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

Its already been organised

Guess I'll have to get my team there earlier to beat the British one. 

[Aaron]

Is this the beginnings of another .45 Adventure scenario?

[Operator5]

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?

[Mad Doc Morris]

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! 
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?

[Driscoles]

Really a brilliant idea...

But what about rewriting the script to this movie :



 

[Prof.Witchheimer]

  Rich. it's great , I have to play it one day