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Hi there during one of my recent games, I made good use of popping smoke to obscure a couple of rhinos transporting their precious cargo of tactical squads, whilst making a dash across the board.

Unfortunately I didnt have anything to represent the smoke screen around the tanks, what if anything do you use to represent smoke, I dont want to just bung some cotton wool on the table for two reasons, 1. it looks pants, and 2. bits of it stick to the static grass on the board.

Any suggestions with pics would be cool, thank you.

Ellis

Try these, or at least give them a look.

http://www.gf9.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=28&products_id=242

Grab some steel wool and tear off bits to look like smoke, then spray one end white from a distance.

S6 Engineering make plastic smoke markers that look pretty neat

http://www.s6engineering.co.uk/accessories.html

Also some have been modified by Dakkaites (i.e. Panic)

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/165380-S6%2C%20S6%20Engineering.html

I use the GF9 ones (the old ones that had the three layered smoke wall with one in front and one behind.) not the current one:


You can't see the one behind, so I removed both smaller ones onto some WHFB regiment bases (100x25mm), so a single pack gave me 6 walls of smoke not 2.

I've seen someone use painted cotton blobs. Very realistic, especially since his tanks were customized to accomodate them (he had normal Smoke screen in grey to white, and red/orange smoke for destroyed tanks).

I just place a dice with the "6" up on the vehicle as a reminder.

I would use cotton balls. If you lose then they are cheap to replace and you can pick them up anywhere.

The title is a bit misleading
Anyways
You can actually use alot of stuff... (maybe real smoke?)
You could use steel wool, cotton balls, markers, Armorcast muzzle blasts etc. etc. etc.

Make your own cardboard or sheet plastic markers. Wide and fluffy looking for obscuring smoke, tall and billowy for destroyed. Paint to match.

I glued cotton balls to electric tea candles, shaped them into clouds, and then hit them with a spray on adhesive and a black spray paint. When they're off, they represent smoke launchers in use. When I turn them on, you've got flickering orange light coming from within, making for a very nice looking destroyed tank marker.