Post by oldminer on Mar 3, 2023 1:36:40 GMT
I’m studying several sets of rules, but I know I will be using 54mm figures. (I am also posting this on another site, so I copied some of the text to avoid retyping it.)
I started the first 12” x 12” tile for my game board. I got the grandson’s and son’s approval for building a board game based on 54mm creatures, set in some unknown era, yet to be determined.
I had ordered a set of 20 cheap self stick vinyl floor tiles to be the ‘base‘ of each tile. I did decide to underlay each of those with 1” rigid foam, since the tiles themselves are not stiff at all. Of course the box of tiles came damaged, something ate the corner of the box and damaged quite a few. It won’t hurt for this application. And, I have plenty of 1” insulation board available. On this one, I did peel the foil facing off. I won’t do that again. Each tile will get a layer of brown paper tape as a ‘wrap around’ before applying the vinyl floor tile.
Since the building is an observation post, it needed to be on a hill. So, since I have 3 large sheets of packing foam (that I believe is polyethylene foam), I decided to use that. It is very easy to cut and form, this time I used a knife, but the hot wire cutter works well too. (This building is made from an egg carton) Next will be glue and probably spackling compound to make the hill a hill.
While this can be manned by humans, it still hasn’t been decided if it will normally be manned by the autonomous robots as seen manning the mini gun in a couple of pictures. That would reduce the amount of supplies and amenities required at the site. The next tile may be the power generator and radar unit.
This will obviously create a line of sight issue on the playing field, and will provide vantage points and cover.
I started the first 12” x 12” tile for my game board. I got the grandson’s and son’s approval for building a board game based on 54mm creatures, set in some unknown era, yet to be determined.
I had ordered a set of 20 cheap self stick vinyl floor tiles to be the ‘base‘ of each tile. I did decide to underlay each of those with 1” rigid foam, since the tiles themselves are not stiff at all. Of course the box of tiles came damaged, something ate the corner of the box and damaged quite a few. It won’t hurt for this application. And, I have plenty of 1” insulation board available. On this one, I did peel the foil facing off. I won’t do that again. Each tile will get a layer of brown paper tape as a ‘wrap around’ before applying the vinyl floor tile.
Since the building is an observation post, it needed to be on a hill. So, since I have 3 large sheets of packing foam (that I believe is polyethylene foam), I decided to use that. It is very easy to cut and form, this time I used a knife, but the hot wire cutter works well too. (This building is made from an egg carton) Next will be glue and probably spackling compound to make the hill a hill.
While this can be manned by humans, it still hasn’t been decided if it will normally be manned by the autonomous robots as seen manning the mini gun in a couple of pictures. That would reduce the amount of supplies and amenities required at the site. The next tile may be the power generator and radar unit.
This will obviously create a line of sight issue on the playing field, and will provide vantage points and cover.
