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You know, it looks good. Nice work Panic. I'm seriously wondering if GW actually intended this to be used on a table given your discoveries. I think they intended it to be floor bound, I could be wrong. Maybe they just intended it to be used on a table, with a lip, to keep those pieces in place.

im really pleased with mine, ive made countless tables in the past and they always end up damaged, gouged, scratched, crushed etc etc and dont really last 6 months. this is pretty indestructable in terms of gaming accidents so it suits me down to the ground.

i dont have the time anymore to sit and build my own so this is wonderful for me, i picked it up with a £35 discount so i didnt feel too bad about the price.

i plan on doing mine as a frozen tundra, just paint it a light blue and spray white over the top of it to give it a slightly glacier kind of look then varnish the hell out of it.
got plans to make some big ice crystal forests out of tinted resin too.

olympia wrote:

oni wrote:

Chapterhouse wrote:
My main dislike is alot of the sloped and ridges, your minis just slide on down the sleek plastic. If I wanted that I would take my minis to Six Flags Amusement park. They should have somehow textured the surface, so that a good 20% of the surface your minis arent on a Ice skating rink.

Oni, did you have to turn your models sideways to get them to stay on the hill? I played a game on this board last week and it was a nightmare. I had to face my miniatures uphill and still 1/2 of them came down. I want to see some pictures of these boards painted and flocked and such.

Nope. No turning them sideways or laying them down. I have to admit that it did take a few tries to get the Defkoptas to stay in place. Damn flying bases! Once painted I'd imagine that mini's would be less prone to sliding. I'm going to lay down some minor amounts of basing sand to try and overcome the issue a bit more.

Awesome job Panic. I imagine mine will be very similar as I too got the scenery painting pack. Although I'll be adding just a bit of sand to the slopes and tiny amount of grass.

yeah,
I've played my first game on the board.
I played with a 5'x4' wood board under the Realm of battle board. the 6" over hang at each end was ok, and never threatened the mini's.
Playing on the board was awesome! my dice even seemed to roll better on it!!!

I made a article about how I painted/flocked my board.
Terrain: GW Realm Of Battle Board: Standard
Check it out.

here's a few snaps!



have fun!

Panic.

the board does not seem very thick in the flatter sections of the board, what is the average height of the board in these lower sections? i was thinking if i got one i would use nuts, bolts and washers (2 per side, 7 sides total) to hold it all together. is this possible?

yeah,
Bolting it together?

With the clips they pop off when the flex is too much, Bolting it together will mean the board will continue to flex till the force is enough to tear plastic...
It's asking for trouble if you ask me...
I don't think it would be able to take the strain of unsupported sections or turning it over (if you bolt it gether and then flip it)... I think it would break...

They give you 32 clips when you only needs 14... I think GW expect some clips to snap under the preasures that get applied to the board!
Also There must be a reason they didn't do the jigsaw type connection of the modular hils.

Panic...

BEtter than just giving you the requisite amount.

Also, I imagine at least a dozen are chucked in for fear of loss!

Yeah,
But, more than double seems like over kill for fear of loss?
The clip sprue could be cut in half with minimum effort giving you 16 clips? 2 extra for loss?

Panic

Maybe they do expect to sell the tiles separately some day so you would only get the clips if you buy the main set.. then you get to use some of your extras

Lord Solaar wrote:

Wolfstan wrote:Just out of interest, what do the buyers of the new GW battle board plan to rest it on? ... another large board perhaps? So the arguement for it replacing your old heavy board is void isn't it? Whether you make it out of cheap foam or use the nice shiney GW one, you still need a board

I got three of these for the table part of the table: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=7679248

Deathklaat wrote:some online retailers are selling the Citadel Realm of Battle Gameboard for under $200.00 USD

Who? Links please!

I was able to pick one up for $150.00, at my place of employment. While this was an awesome deal for me as an employee, I know that the owner would sell the couple we have left for quite a bit cheaper than msrp. Deals are to be had, shop around the internets.
In two weeks I am finished with yet another semester and will try to start a post of the painting of the board as well as some terrain.

ohhh Nice article Panic! Superb work on the table.

As for keeping things tighter why not use those tissue gluing stripes ( dont know the english name sorry... its the things that are on some tennis shoes)

the extra clips are for both lost clips and so you can clip together 2 sets of boards or more for apocalypse.

if you have 2 people bring their boards, and you are the only one who brought your extra clips it would take and extra 12 clips to attack the 3 sets together.

I think your talking about velcro right, one piece has little hooks and the other is a mess of fibers to be hooked. Right?

Yes Ghost in the Darkness velcro

olympia wrote:Great pics. And that thing is only $290? What a deal!

How much do you have?

I love it. It looks so good when its painted up. I think its worth the money if you could go halves with a friend that you play with regularly. but if you have a friendship divorce then you only have three tiles and too many clips!!

make sure to put it in the pre-nup that he gets the tiles with the skull pits on them!

Haha, tectonics. its funny really because THERE IS ONLY WAR!

hmm, i may seriously consider purchasing this product.

My board arrived today. I'll be taking photos as I unpack it, work on it, and so forth. I'll do a writeup with pics in the modeling and painting forum once done.

panic did a great job, but as i'm going to do ash waste painjob, I figured I would post a writeup as well.

I did a quick search on eBay and found someone selling them brand new in box for $199.00 - I bought the two he had two for a grand total of $430, shipping included.

So my new 6x8 table will be arriving shortly. I recommend anyone interested in finding a deal simply search via google: "Citadel Realm of Battle Gameboard"

Good luck fellow 40k addicts.

After seeing Panic's pics, I guess I do kinda like it after all, though there is no way I could justify the cost.

The boards are hollow underneath, yes? Has anyone considered/attempted filling this cavity with something to make the board more sturdy? Like expanding insulation/packing foam or something?

I imagine that would prevent you from fitting them back in the case though.

no they are not hollow.

there is a rigid grid of support fins from the underneath of the board to flush with the table top. i was at a gw store where a 250 pound guy stood on a tile, no damage.
boards stack like this, twice in the carrying bag.
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blue loki wrote: Has anyone considered/attempted filling this cavity with something to make the board more sturdy? Like expanding insulation/packing foam or something?
I imagine that would prevent you from fitting them back in the case though.

I plan to this to mine when arrive, but not for structural improvements (the foam isn't really strong enough for that). I want to deaden the noise that miniatures and (more importantly) dice make when moving across the surface. It won't affect the way the board packs into the case, but it may add the weight. These things feel heavier than they are for some reason.

Lets see, 200+ for a plastic table from GW that I have to paint and flock.

OR

Spend 50$ at Home depo and make my own table with green cloth and thos nifty (And cheap) terrain pices I have lieing around...

options options...


For me its ither one table I will never have the time to paint/flock or 60 more Plague bearers...

If you're patient, foam insulation would do well as a filler. The only problem I can see is the "slipperyness" of bare plastic. To some tests on the open areas and see if the insulation slides around or has a grip. If it slides, you may want to use spray primer on the underside before foaming it up.

Being a father of 3 pre-teens that lives in a 3 bedroom apartment that drives a Corolla, I really appreciate this product.
It fits in a corner of the closet when packed up, and it's great to be able to pull out even 1-4 pieces for small games played with the kids.

For full scale games, I really wanted a way to be able to put it on the kitchen table without an under-board.
it fits fairly well, with perhaps a 4" overlap on each side. As many people have noted, the clips that come with it do a great job of keeping things aligned, but not so well at keeping things together when flexing. To remedy this, I made a guide and used a pin vice and paperclips threaded through the holes, and pinched tight with pliers when inserted. The great thing about the paperclips is that they end up bending back open a bit rather than tearing the plastic apart when under extreme torque.
Quick early test with a flour sack, and pulling the board flush on one side of the table to get the most extreme overlap I should see on the table (you can see nearly a foot of overlap in the photo).

That image is just the first stage of painting as well, coated each tile with red rustoleum primer.
http://www.amazon.com/Oleum-7769-830-Rusty-Metal-Primer/dp/B000PIKJAS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1230915267&sr=8-1
then tagged the stone bits with Citadel Roughcoat (which ironically looks EXACTLY like i didn't paint it in the first place).

This is just another shot of the whole table put together, drybrushed with Liquitex Raw Sienna (have a bunch of old tubes lying around...). On the not-so-cheap side, I also coated all the stone in Gryphonne Sepia ink/wash... took about a pot and a half.


It's playable now... I've gone over one tile and have been putting static grass on slippy parts (thanks to other posts about flying bases, etc), and a couple more passes on the stonework. No pics yet.
Might put up pics of the underside up as well when it's all clipped/sewn together.

hmm...I've been thinking to get 2 of these from ebay (sellers sell them for $200 USD instead of 300+ for the cdn price) so that can do a 8 x 6 ft board and play 2-4k pt fantasy matches. The extra space in the middle will help alot with more tactical flexibility as there will be like 2 or so turns JUST for movement... discussed with some friends already and we'd increase # of turns to 9-10 instead of 6.

Sanjay

yeah,
Tirian I did similar experiments with my board, the problem is that the board flexes and the clips spring loose/off.
If i was you I'd be warey of puting a army of painted mini's on a table that at risk of springing apart. The Max over hang I'd risk is 6"

That said your tables look swish! real nice. post more pictures.

PAnic.

JokerGod wrote:Lets see, 200+ for a plastic table from GW that I have to paint and flock.

OR

Spend 50$ at Home depo and make my own table with green cloth... -snip-

And it'll probably not even look half as good.

The only thing stopping my group and I from getting this board is its price. Although, at $200 or less, 6 people pitching in won't be that big of a deal. Only ~$33 dollars. Well not including paint or anything.

Played my first two games at one at my LGWS. It's a pretty nice table, looks great and all, but I'd never pay for one. With that money, you could start a whole new army, or make your own table, and then buy oodles of terrain bits to make it something spectacular.