Tablescapes Ruined Temple Preview

Secret Weapon have release previews of the final terrain style

It looks amazing. I cannot wait to see some painted up

Games Workshop would be proud! Skulls in a pit!

It appears to be very highly detailed

This was the original terran style I wanted, but passed it over as it was shipping last. Now they are all shipping together in April/May. Disappointing but typical of Kickstarters

Apparently it is getting renamed to forgotten city to distinguish it from the ruined temple bases Secret Weapon makes

Tablescapes - Success!

In the wee hours of this morning (well at least local time) Secret Weapons Miniatures Kickstarter campaign came to a wildly successful close 

As you can see from the above graph the last few hours smashed all estimates in what has apparently become common place in popular Kickstarters.

I pledged for a 4x8' table (32 1x1' tiles) of the Ruined Temple theme. It was the one that grabbed me the most that could be used for both WHFB and 30k

And after seeing some renders for the Rolling Fields theme I am tempted to get a 4x6' table of them as well.

If you missed out of these or just did not have the finds to commit they will all be available to the general public at the end of the year (think November) providing there are no hick ups in the tooling and distribution of the backers tiles.

Its going to be great coming back from Europe to some great new tables. 

Modular Gaming Table - Part 1

The other weekend I took delivery of the materials for my modular gaming table I am building

The local DIY had an overstock of Extruded Foam Insulation panels, so I picked up 12 40mm thick Sheets. This stuff is ment to be the replacement of the "blue stuff" and "pink stuff" that is commonly used.

I plan on making 2' by 2' tiles that interlock together to form any number of panels in multiple configurations. The plan is to lamenate a 40mm sheet onto 2' by 2' MDF panels and sculpt in valleys, rivers etc into the them, and form hills and cliffs by layering more sheets ontop.

I have 24 MDF panels cut, which should allow me to create a large variety of terrain

So far I have made 6 panels and a mess cutting the foam! All going to plan I will have them finished before Southcon in June so they can be used at the tournament

Im not sure how I will interlock them yet. I have considered large dowels of magnets, but am not sure how well they will preform with the foam. The final result will be great from creating massive Apocolypse tables!