Gaslands – Preparation for Salute

[crikeymiles]

With Gaslands pencilled in for released by Osprey Games later this year*, we're taking it to Salute to let people see what it's all about, let people have a 20mins death race and hopefully send some folks away to let their friends know about the game.

(*I don't have a concrete date yet, but the internet tells me October.)

Salute is huge, and busy. We have a reasonable good spot – come find us a GF13 – but you need to have a impactful table to grab attentions in such a fantastic and visually noisy show.  We needed a new and better demo board.

I'm working on the board at the moment, and wanted to show some working in progress shots!

Warehouses

Scratch built out of foamboard and PVC "girders". I don't love foamboard but it's just so fast and easy to cut into shape. I glued corrugated cardboard (which is the official scratch-building material of choice for Gaslands!) over the foamboard to quickly get an industrial look.





Ably assisted...





Black, brown and orange paints applied fast and loose:





Still a bit of detail work to do, and they are looking a little too orange and spotty at the moment:

[crikeymiles]

Riverbed

I have a standard demo board, intended to be simple and easy to transport. For Salute, I wanted something with more height, depth and texture. To this end, I extended my normal 4'x4' board with an additional 2'x4' board. It will be modelled to look like a dried-up post-apocalyptic riverbed, with a beached tanker, and made to look sunken by raising the rest of the board up on a supporting frame.



Here's the basic idea mocked out. The idea spawned from the lovely MDF crane, and a "docklands" theme emerged.



I haven't paper-machéd since school!



In this photo you can see the beginnings of the raised backdrop that bolts into the frame that is holding the boards up. It's tried to give the whole affair some eye-catching height, and has the double benefit of providing a solid and thematic background for the photos that I need to take for the book!

Blue foam, PVA and polyfiller later:



After a lot more polyfiller (I used a whole tub on this), I mixed black paint and PVA (2:1) and then went over with textured and standard acrylic rattle cans.



The tanker and the crane are likely next on the painting table.

[joshuaslater]

 

[Sbloom141]

That riverbed is looking great!

Do you happen to have kept any templates for the warehouse that you care to share? I love the simple design. Also where did the girders come from?

[therepoman]

That's going to be a gorgeous looking board... I'll be keeping an eye on this.

[Brummie Thug]

Looks awesome so far.

[crikeymiles]

The girders are "ASA 'H' column, 6.0 x 6.0 x 1000mm" from www.modelshop.co.uk

The foam board slots right into the groove of the H, so it fits together well and covers up the exposed foam.

[crikeymiles]

Progress was interrupted by the birth of my daughter!  

Some more work over the Easter weekend, and the main shape of the board is starting to come together.



The warehouses have been based, using a stone effect spray paint that I get at B&Q and use for most of my industrial scenery. It strays little grey and white speckles at random and does a pretty passable impersonation of concrete and asphalt at smaller scales. I spray it cover a black undercoat and then "dust" it with brown and rust sprays to get some variation in tone.  This is the same receipe I used for the boards themselves too.



The MDF crane kit got blasts of brown and black over a red undercoat, and then orange rust painted on haphazardly.



The MDF container ship got a similar treatment, over a "hammered chrome" undercoat. (I love the range of "special effect" spray paints at B&Q for terrain projects!) .




In order to give the board some height, in an attempt to attract the over-saturated attentions of the humble Salute punter, I built a detachable backdrop for the board. This will also double-up as a backdrop for the photos that I need to take for the book!

Assembled, it looks like this...



Gratuitous cat photo:



And here's how it all goes together:

[therepoman]

Progress was interrupted by the birth of my daughter!  

One of the only things in life more important than gaming.

Congrats!

[crikeymiles]

Thanks buddy! She's my first and I'm head over heels!

[therepoman]

Thanks buddy! She's my first and I'm head over heels!

Enjoy the ride!

You definitely won't be sleeping for a while... maybe you'll get some middle-of-the-night hobby work done?

Yeah right!

[DELTADOG]

hehe gratz to the new family member. I got my second dauther last year. be sure you will have plenty of wake time the next month to make some terrain, while waiting the baby still asleeps.

The table come along great btw!

[crikeymiles]

Salute was a blast! We had plenty of interest on the day, and had two 15mins demo games running simultaneously for pretty much the whole day.

Cannot wait to get the game into people's hands later in the year.

Here's some pictures of the final table in action:









I had a goodly amount of fun making posters and advertising for the terrain too!

[von Lucky]

Table looks great - the posters, etc add a nice touch.

[Tas]

Looks great! Looking forward to the release