Summer Bo(a)redom: A table is born

Another blogpost, another groan-worthy blog title. This time we're taking a step away from the miniatures themselves and goes into recycling the left-overs from the project I had last summer, putting in new floors in my apartment. I thought it was about time to get a dedicated board to game on, and reading the Retribution of Scyrah force book for Warmachine I happened upon something inspirational. Privateer Press do these lovely bits of fiction in those books, and this bit got my mind spinning. The cult leaders of Eversael brining the city to ruins when they go too far and subsequentely gets... ehm. stomped. I mean, stopped. So, here's a table based on the Ruins of said city, somewhere on the outskirts. The Ruins of Eversael.

Since I wanted a fairly open but still characterful game board it is slightly gradiented to give the illusion of rolling hills, or at least that is the plan.

Materials used: Wood glue, Snap-fit floorboards, wooden corner beads, foam underlay.

First up we have the concept scetches I made with my tablet.

First draft. Never was too happy about these two.

What I finally settled on. No worries, the water wont hinder normal play... Overly much.

Here we have the floorboards and wooden corner beads that will make up the main part of the board itself.

Even though they are pictured in the image, neither the cans of liquid nor the tank of LPG for the grill are part of the build!

 After gluing the boards together two by two (there were six boards in total), this is where I almost lost my marbles (groan) I weighed all of them down to get a smooth fit while the glue dried.

Time to appply the wooden beads to the table, adding a bunch of stability, flair, dazzling elegance and...eh. No just stability and making the edge of the table less rough when handled.

 When the glue had dried the table was ready for the next step. It was brought back to the shade and it was time to lay down the first layers of foam.

The warping in this picture is an optical illusion. It's acctually fairly even in real life. For something made by me.

  

After the first layer and a half had been glued down, I drew the general shape of the table that will be as laid out in the scetch. The square is made separately in foamboard and will be added at a way later stage.

 Since these pictures were taken and edited there have been more work done on the table, and another update might be possible to expect soon enough. This sure is an interesting project to make, I just need to decide how decrepit it will look in the end.

'Til next time.
(And I really should settle for one or two sizes for images...)