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Would love to hear peoples thoughts and ideas and criticisms. Im a new painter, first real attempt, so tips and tricks are welcome. Im always up to answer questions too.
Current Progress Here
~Games I currently collect and play~
Age of Sigmar
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High Elves: Alarielle the Radiant, Lion Chariot of Chalace ,Archmage and Mage, Flamespyre Phoenix
Wood Elves: Araloth, Spellweaver, Sisters of Avelorn, Sisters of the Thorn x2, Eternal Guard x2
Nurgle: Gutrot Spume, Blightkings
Skaven: Clan rats, plague monks,Plague furnace, plague claw
~Old updates~
Gaming table (Mostly finished)
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Just started playing War Machine, starting with retribution, first attempt into painting minis, always played pre-painted games before. My first attempt at making terrain was for heroclix, saw someone who made their own 3-D terrain and inspired me to make some for it. So I designed and made my own modular 3-d terrain, I still use for a number of games including my home brew.
My current two projects are a gaming table for war machine that doubles as my kitchen table and a small painting booth thats vented so I can paint inside this winter.
My first step for the table is going to be a simple removable square top for my current round table while I figure out all the bells and whistles I want on the finished project. I plan to make the finish produce have removable panels on the top to reveal the gaming surface.
Got the scrap pine I had laying around from a garage build and made some planks I'm gonna stain
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and made the playing surface out of some left over subfloor for a floating floor.
Next step is to felt the playing surface and attach the mounting cleats to the outside frame for the playing surface to sit on. Excuse the messy wood shop, I don't claim ownership to it lol
attached support cleats to hold top
Then started screwing sides together
And Finished!
Used 3m super 77 spray adhesive to attach the felt to the top.
Folded and stapled the felt around the edges
Top ready to go into table
Test fit of the edge pieces
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Got the scrap pine I had laying around from a garage build and made some planks I'm gonna stain
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and made the playing surface out of some left over subfloor for a floating floor.
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Next step is to felt the playing surface and attach the mounting cleats to the outside frame for the playing surface to sit on. Excuse the messy wood shop, I don't claim ownership to it lol
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So you are building a gaming table, cunningly disguised as a normal kitchen table?
This sounds like a great idea. I will be following this I think Do you have some pictures of the table you will turn into a hybrid. It would be interesting to see it before.
What kind of dimensions are we talking about for a WarMachine gaming surface?
vim_the_good wrote: So you are building a gaming table, cunningly disguised as a normal kitchen table?
This sounds like a great idea. I will be following this I think Do you have some pictures of the table you will turn into a hybrid. It would be interesting to see it before.
What kind of dimensions are we talking about for a WarMachine gaming surface?
Cheers Vim
Thats correct, Its going to have a removable top that is on most of the time hiding the gaming area. The current prototype will just set over top my current 47 1/2 inch round table (making it square). I plan on adding some legs and other bits and making a full fledged table in the future once I figure out exactly what I want and build it out of a nice hardwood.
Its going to have a 48x48 playing space. so war machine spec, but will still make a nice playing surface for all kinds of games.
Ill have to grab some pictures of the current table it will be placed over.
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Been a long week. Not much progress. Posting from my phone so will detail after. Here are some pictures. And backwards order cause I fail lol. Will adjust when I get home.
~Edit~ Changed order and added details
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Used 3m super 77 spray adhesive to attach the felt to the top.
Folded and stapled the felt around the edges
Top ready to go into table
Test fit of the edge pieces
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Missing alot of extra supports, not stained ect ect but this is my prototype to see how it will work and exactly what I want. Over all I'm very happy with it, I spent less then $50 making it, but I choose to mill scrap pine into lumber, cheap acrylic felt. To recreate it in a professional quality would wager would run $100-200 all said and done,
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Been a while, moved, dont have room for my table so that project is on the side burner so gonna focus on painting. Gonna try and work a little each night and update this daily or every other day.
Have a bunch of minis i need to paint, starting here
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and my work area....
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Gonna get them all set to be primed and tomorrow after work I'll try and get that done.
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Got the mold lines cleaned up washed and ready to be primed.
after taking this picture I made a couple adjustments to the poses of the minitour and succubuss via hot water and then setting new pose with cold. worked great, got rid of their weird leaning lol
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primed and drying, primed in white so not much new to see haha, might start with the red dragon, hes gonna be cool looking painted.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Got one color on 3 so far, starting with two dragons and minitour...long way to go..couple spots to fill in
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Pretty minor update, but I did end up getting the legs on the table (sidenote, its been moved too many times and taken a beating. I've had to mercilessly stab more screws in it. It was so pretty when it was made ) stage two of my terrain project is going underway this weekend. Need to visit the rents and use the wood shop to cut up sheets of pink foam. Makes it so easy. Cant wait!!!!! Can retire my heroclix practice terrain haha
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Well, small break from stuff, had to move, long sob story. Good news, I have an upgraded (in my mind ) living space, along with a new job which should allow more gaming $$$ yay!
So, pictures!! and then hopefully more updates on a regular basis.
New work space and box of crap to paint and put together!
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Been a long while. Me and the girl started building and playing again, she picked up start collecting nurgle, two great unclean ones and a set of plague drones as a gift. Will get pictures.
I started on my elves again, first up
White lion chariot
Gotta put the capes and shoulder pads on before I prime em. Magnetized the flag pole, so it cant get broken off and makes working on it so much easier. Can see the magnets on the first picture
Picked up a bunch of terrain, a battle mat, carry cases, tons of dice. My wallet hates me Will take pictures and upload soon
Been restless in my quest to finish assembling my elves, lion chariot is together and just finished 10 more eternal guard so I have 20 now. Armys looking like an army!
Gonna be a bunch of stuff in primer for a while lol
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) stage two of my terrain project is going underway this weekend. Need to visit the rents and use the wood shop to cut up sheets of pink foam. Makes it so easy. Cant wait!!!!! Can retire my heroclix practice terrain haha
gonna try a different basing material next time.
