I've been playing a bit of BattleTech: Alpha Strike lately and decided I wanted to work on a special table for the game. After digging through my pile of BattleTech maps, I decided to try my hand a building a Sink Hole table.
While I'm building this primarily for use with BattleTech games, it will work for many of the other games that I play. It will also work for games of various scales; 6mm, 15mm, 28mm. I love versatile terrain.
My goal is to get a 4' x 6' table that can be set up in different layouts.
My first step was to sketch out the basic layout on some graph paper. This sketch will serve as my basic guide as I start cutting.
After doing some cutting I think I've decided to do two 2' x 2' sections and two 2' x 4' sections, but haven't completely settled on that decision.
After cutting up some 1" pink foam boards, I started cutting out shapes according to the sketches. This is the first section I have and I think it looks pretty good.
I will texture this with caulk and then add flock. I thought about a dessert look, but will likely make it match my existing hills so they can be used together.
You can see more pictures and info on my blog. http://gamingandshooting.blogspot.com/2015/03/terrain-project-sink-holes-part-2.html
Let me know what you think or if you have any ideas or thoughts that might be helpful.
I will update as I progress on this project.
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File comment: My basic sketch of the layout. sink holes sketch.JPG [ 134.21 KiB | Viewed 4499 times ] |
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File comment: First board is cut and ready for texture, paint, and flock. sink holes 1.JPG [ 110.68 KiB | Viewed 4499 times ] |
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File comment: I plan to match the texture, paint and flock to the hills that I already have. hills.JPG [ 135.01 KiB | Viewed 4499 times ] |