In Clouds of Glory at Hamburger Tactica 2016

[GilmoreDK]

Again this year the In Clouds of Glory design team aka Svend and Thomas is heading for the Hamburger tactica convention in February for two days of absolutely the best of European table top display games...  So for those of you attending: Come visit us the 27-28th this month.

Again this year we will bring a bit of gaming materials for sale at around purchase prices... Plane minis, flight stands, adhesive for making turn templates etc.

More on our presentation game here:http://www.hamburger-tactica.de/?p=9507&lang=en

[OSHIROmodels]

Fantastic set up 

cheers

James

[GilmoreDK]

Working hard to get all the bits ready for our two new front boards (4 planned in total)..  test piece shown. along with some new houses to beef up the village a bit...

1/350 scale

[grant]

Oh just wow! As a die-hard micro armour gamer, your buildings and terrain are stunning.

You really should up them to -:285 scale and then make them available

[Andym]

WOW! That's some great(right word for such a small scale?) terrain building!

[Drachenklinge]

What I especially remember of that game is that the move-engine seemed very well thought out and quite realistic. What I could do and where I would be after the turn was what I expected, according to my actions during flight.
Also, where the others would likely be according to their actions. Stall, accelerating, overheating engine, choking the prop, etc.
So, as close as one can be while tabletopping, I somewhat felt the wind in my hair. 

I also like is this special lucky-shot rule (do not quite remember the name of it), when someone tries to hit you. If he roles a 1 (on a d20?) the target gets a bullit through his scarf and so is a VERY lucky pilot, hence the target (!) gets a lucky point or something. Very useful in campaigns, I recall. 
Hope, that still in the rules!

Looking forward to have a real eye shot on that terrain, then.

[fred]

Great terrain, that trench line is very detailed, looks great.

And all this for an aerial game, too!

[Driscoles]

Your tables are always a joy to look at.
Björn

[GilmoreDK]

Some work in progress from today..   Tactica is this month  ..  But we will get there..

Positive mock-up on board number 2 in casting sand.


Used the7 hours, 2 persons to cut, fit and mount all the trench sides and a bit of sandbags and make the mock up:





one full board plus a lot of detailing to go..

[OSHIROmodels]

Great stuff 

Best of luck getting it finished 

cheers

James

[Andym]

Wow!

Btw, what's casting sand?

[GilmoreDK]

Wow!

Btw, what's casting sand?

The boards are cast using building spray foam (the caramel coloured expanding foam used for isolating around windows etc). The cast is made from casting sand normally used for casting stuff in metal. It is a mixture of oil and fine grained sand. It can be molded like clay. We then make a negative model (hills are med as depressions etc) of the board and then close the mold - spraying foam into holes in the closed mold.

here is a negative model used for the mold of a river board:



And here is  the river board coming out of the mold:

[Andym]

Interesting! Thanks for that!

[GilmoreDK]

A couple of pics of the two trench boards we got ready for Hamburger Tactica:

[fred]

They look excellent, are the long black poles for more aircraft, or balloons, or something else?