New gaming table, step3; gathering of materials, what to use?

[Loempiaketzer]

hey there all,
i have bought my own house last week (hurray!) and now i get to use the whole attic as a game room.
This room would also include my basses and my PC. So, not much else then war hammer it will be
Looking at my current table, its up for revision. a.k.a. creating a new gaming table! (since scenery has gotten more
attention lately i think my table would be up next to make 'nice and shiny')
There is only one thing im thinking about. What kind of table!?!?
i could do fixed hills or a slopy table, however, move-able hills would be better i guess since you get to switch it up a LOT more.
Or i could make a modular gaming table like the 6pieces table GW produces. But still i think thats a bit too much work. If im going
to make something like that i would need 8 to 10 pieces to switch it up in the fashion i would want it. (keeping the same sizes as the GW
parts have)
So ill probably stick with the giant flat 1 piece table.

Then i need to decide the soil. First i was thinking, desert! then i was thinking, Grey stone! then i was thinking, classic brown soil with grass!
and in the end my head heart, i was very jumpy and still didnt decide anything on the table-soil part.

So probably i will stick to the most generic table being brown soil and green grass. the happy world were everybody dreams about.
However! i play a lot with TK my friend with DE. i have desert bases, he has grey bases with red crystals.

the final question is;
would it look okay if the table would have a brown soil with HEAVILY drybrushed bleached bone on it? with some darker area's.
then covering some places in grass, starting with 'dead grass' then turning maybe to some points with a bit more greener grass?

how could i make this work?

I would really love to have a table that has some different soil colours to match more then 1 kind of basingstyle...
Im thinking of 'the area between deserts and woodlands' kind of thing. This wouldnt probably take a LOT of miles to get from
a desert setting with dead grass to a 'healthy' grass setting. but i want it to fit onto 1 board... would this work?

thanks for reading. Comments and inputs VERY well appreciated!

(making 2 tables isnt much of an option.... im sorry)

 

[Loempiaketzer]

RE: new gaming table, need opinions (no pics)

After some thinking, im going with a TK sands table.
small patches of dead grass here and there and some cracked dry earth to mix up the endless sands.
The ground will be pretty flat this way but still have some minor curvings.

This being decided, i need to think about some scenery!
anyone that has seen my plog (TK sons of the sun) know i have the sun worshipping theme going for them. I would like to get some scenery in with that. I was thinking of the following;
Obelisk ; (huge pillar with marks on it.) This could be used as an obstacle or sinister structure kind of thing.
small encampment2 or 3 small tents. just as buildings or maybe even dwarven brewhouse! (imagine a campfire to party!)
treasure my TKs have to defend something!!!
sandy hill you need some dunes in the desert, right?
statue of the gods much like the obelisk, but this one would look more like the sun logo ive got going for my army
Oasis to use as rivers or pools or something like that
bonyard perhaps to use as charnelpit. i think this doesnt look out of place in a desert!
Lava cracks its so hot in my undead desert lava comes out of the ground at some points!
Pyramid captain obvious has arrived! making a 4 pie-piece pyramid so they can be deployed in corners (1/4 pieces) or on the sides(1/2pieces) of the battlefield. should be good for a battle of the pass scenario!

got more idea's to add to the list?
please let me know!!

 

[veiled]

RE: New gaming table, step2; sands of khemri brainstorm!

you could have a huge pyramid pretty simple to make aswel for one of the corner boards, i.e the edge of a pyramid or the remains

and if your playing "house rules" for your board you could have small areas of quick sand, if a unit/model finishes its movement on said quicksand area (has to be 25% in the area for this to apply) the unit takes d3 str2 hits or something, help spice it up abit and make it different idk ><

 

[Rorschach]

RE: New gaming table, step2; sands of khemri brainstorm!

Cacti seem like a nice touch.
If you can find them, some desert creatures (snakes/lizards) would be cool as well I think.

Oh, and a sphinx. =D

 

[Loempiaketzer]

RE: New gaming table, step2; sands of khemri brainstorm!

a piramid would be too big. Or i could make it in 1 pie pieces so im able to put 2 half piramids on the tableedges making it look like armys are fighting between these mighty structures...
Or i could make an excavating (grammar?) piramid thing. (on where archeologists just started digging for the piramid.

which leads me to

Remains or grave robbers! small scenerypieces with digging equipment/abandonned carts and maybe some dead bones of ex-miners...

as for camels and the like. I dont know, they would be moving at random. are there any cool rules on this? they could move random like fanatics.. but what do the camels actually do when they 'hit' something?

cacti are a very good options. venom thicket anyone?

a sphinx. offcourse. but its hard making one since its big in real life and i dont want to spoil the table with a huge thing which is treated as impassible terrain... it would either split up any army, or negate like 1/3 of the board.
so maybe only a large sphynx head + some rubble for what it used to be?

ill add these idea's to the list above for completeness sake.
Im trying to get the most of the BRB scenerypieces. so any thoughts with that in mind would be good.

 

[Lynks]

RE: New gaming table, step2; sands of khemri brainstorm!

if you go with the excavations idea you could have the head of the sphinx being dug out and the rest of the body hidden

 

[Burnanation]

RE: New gaming table, step2; sands of khemri brainstorm!

For the excavation you could just have a small part of the whole showing, thereby creating the effect that there's a massive structure below the sands.

Damn I want to build an attic so I can build my own game room... I don't think that my property manager would like that.

 

[Loempiaketzer]

RE: New gaming table, step2; sands of khemri brainstorm!

9 march, my carpet for the attic will arive and be deployed on the ground... then the clauset building can begin. storing of models,... buying a suitable gaming table at a 2nd hand store and finally starting to work on my gamingtable somwhere in the end of next week in the earliest... in any case within a month!
(there are a LOT of boxes in my house currently which need 'emptying' as im currently missing my TV remote, my cell phone charger and my Super Street fighter 4 game which i, most of all, miss the most!)

hmmm a gamingtable... fresh and awesome!
i have coocked up some devious plans for... which i will share... later on!

 

[Loempiaketzer]

RE: New gaming table, step2; sands of khemri brainstorm!

As the progress seems to 'not go' according to plan. (the misses is whining for more closets and other primary life requerements like getting food and cleaning the house and offcourse the finishing of the house like putting up paintings/assembling furniature and getting the Internetz to work properly.
this puts me still in the blueprints phase.
as i totally figured what i would want for scenery it is perhaps wise to look at the table some more.

Im going to get (if possible) an ergonomical desk! this way, you can put it from 90cm high up to 110 or so which is just above the hip. this is great because once you stand you dont have to bend over so much to move your models negating my back-ache i get fairly easy.

now on to the actual table. I dont want it to get too heavy.what material did you use for your own table? what kind of wood and how thick are the main questions here. I dont want a 50kilo table you can bounce an elephant off. And i dont want a large sheet of carboard where you can only play plastics on.

I was thinking of a table about 10mm thickness, plywood.
Going to place a nice strip around the edges so dice/models dont fall off that fast, thats for shure.

I know it probably depends on how much support you get from your table but still. i was just wondering what you have or would use for a table.

also, i cant make it in 1 piece. any good mechanisms on connecting the table?

many thanks for thinking with me. i will defeneatly post a WIP project on desert tables, IF you guys help me out enough that is :devil2: