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so only the sewer parts are accesable at the outer rim of the table? the inner sections would be not to be played in/on...

this could work...you could get some very interresting game dynamics that way... ambush and such things through sewer entrances...

Now you've got it! Yeah, one important thing though is that you need to be abe to lean into the table edge to play on the regular table, ignoring the underground sections when you want to. Without breaking anything in the underground.

well then it is "just" a matter of materials to use for the table... strong enough material and of course hardware to work with that then and you are set... at least some 2cm strong MDF can survive much punishment...and you could get away with the thickness beause of "earthcrust"^^ i think this could be fun thing to build...actually we all have sen it done one way or the other in lots of museums... they tned to make dios that way...
heck come to that you could make something like a mine with that idea in multi layers/ levels... like a get out of the underground scenario...you create it not as a flat table but more like a sort of a half a meter thick cupboard... all the levels are playlevels...with ladders and such things...

that sounds like a fantastic idea, make 1 pipe going around the whole table, and make the apperance of other pipe entrences and such to make it look like a series of pipes

tomorrow i will show you what i mean... i have on my laptop a pic of our summer holiday... we visited a tin mini making foundery...there was a dio you might find inspiring...

well mates i am off for now... keep the creativity flowing^^

oo sounds like an interesting holiday, so long in germany!

*waves!*

Forgive my hurried sketch and total FAIL at perspective here.


See my idea, not my angles

who cares about your perspective as long as it gets the point off, which it does! i think this would be an amazing edition and a fun project to watch!

Whoa, that looks like a huge piece of terrain. oh wait, no. It's the table, with playable space around/under the edges... AWESOME! I can't wait to see you start on it.

Its an awesome idea dstein, however at first i though you meant something like this, where the "under-table" would be just one pipe at 3/4 or 3/5, leaving space for minis to be placed. Could also stop things falling out...

you could even work in cave-ins or the pipe burst and you can see it from surface, or maybie they where replacing a pipe from the service, that way you can have another opening

Great ideas! Keep em coming!

You could also put a deep "cave in" hole in the middle of the table somewhere, maybe with a removable cover so if you didn't want a cave in you could cover it. That way you'd have a tunnel spot in the middle of the board too.

One could model the central sewer section separately, this way it could be fully "underground" yet accessible for figure placement. The center underground section is placed on a table nearby.

As part of this tunnel/sewer project, one could model a control station. This would give an option to flood the tunnels with raw sewage if a gang controls it and spends X amount of time at it. The flood shouldn't be too lethal though, but mostly debilitating.

@ dsteingass
If you get time away from sleep and plastic check out this guys blog posts there are around 11 HoA Table Progress posts. The guy built a multi-level table.

http://agentlemansones.blogspot.com/2011/07/hoa-table-progress-5.html

It would be a cool yet insane bit of work, I think you can do it!

insane is our middle name^^

for sake of simplicity i would make angled swer tunnels... or you could at least make them like in the movie the third man...with lots of brickwork and steps and sewer rivers...i bet that you could actually could charge gamers for playing on that table^^

Have a look at this chap's Blog, scroll down. A ruined fort with dungeon basement, he's supported the 'table' above with a series of rather nice arches.

http://sync-wargaming.blogspot.com/2011/06/predisposition-to-proxy.html

Interesting concept with the sewers. i always imagined that one levels sewers were part of another levels walkways. this is necromunda after all litterally anything is possiblw un terms of terrain from ash or rock dust deserts to acidic swamps or rains of chemicals.
btw just dug out my necro set and for curiosity's sake checked how many plastic bulkheads i have... 72!!!
apparently the original set one of those scenery sets, outlanders and some others yield a fair amount!

At Games Day Chicago, I snapped these photos of a similar underground type:

You could also embed some tunnels in the middle of the table with multiple hinged gratings over them to make them accessible in game without the hassle of having to pick everything up - just pull the tab to open the hatch.

How's that for a run-on sentence!

You need tunnels full of Plague Zombies.

It's ok I do that too when trying to explain my ideas boiling from my brain on the internet.


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OR...What do you think of this:

What if we took the same concept of the cross-section of the terrain, but made it modular, say in 1x1' sections, with a thin piece of hardboard on the top, forming infinite ways of rearranging the underhive?

Ahh materials...hmmm much to talk about here.

Hardboard, wonderful stuff!

For those of us old enough to remember when Televisions used to be large, heavy square cabinets, hardboard was often used in the construction. Also those of us even older may remember floor-model hi-fi stereos with lifting lids, revealing turntables, 8-track players, and LP storage. These home stereo systems produced the most beautiful flat tones (no bass or treble overpowerment) from their tweed-covered speakers. But more relevant, is that the back panels of these behemoth stereo systems were usually constructed of hardboard, and if one has an old junk device such as this laying around in an attic, it is a good source of free hardboard. But of course, your local Menards, Lowe's, Home Depot will probably sell conveniently transported 4x4" sheets for about $8.

I find hardboard easier to work with than MDF, it is just as strong, and it won't warp when properly supported. The really thin hardboard can be cut with just a heavy utility knife and a straightedge. For me, I need to move outside my garage to cut with power tools to lessen the mess, and the weather in Indiana is just not getting better anytime soon.

I thought I would check here first, I was doing some fall cleaning and have some Necromunda terrain that I had planned on listing on the eBays.



It is 6 small angled buildings, 3 of the squarish 3 floor buildings, 3 of the triangle with a deadly hole 2 floor buildings, 2 of the split level tower buildings. The 4 sets of bulk heads are cemented together and the box at the top has 66 additional bulkheads (those bulkheads are all the solid sculpt)

If anyone is interested just PM me, otherwise I plan on putting them on eBay Sunday Nov 6th evening.

The mechanics of this TMNT playset is very interesting.



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Anyways, I got the bench cleaned up.

But not much else yet. Watching My Ohio State Buckeyes tyeing up the game vs. the Hoosiers.
(I am a Buckye transplanted into Indiana soil, NOT a Hoosier)


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THE Ohio State University 34, Indiana University Hoosiers 20

Michigan may lose! What a great day!

i know these old TV sets and radios sets... yup... you must be pretty old to know them or from a family that keeps the stuff even though newer stuff is around... the sets i knew had a lifetime expectancy of a millenia and would be servicable your whole life... giuving lifetime expectancy the right meaning...

but yup that could be a good material... about the 1x1 sections... the problem i see is it has to be planned real carefully... all connections have to be in a sort of puzzle arangement... like every connection has to be in a certain spot... if someone knows the game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcassonne_(board_game)

this game here has tiles that are designt to fit truned either way to fit... i think this would be the first major aim of those sections... to be fitting either way with each other section so that you can arange them however you like them to be...other than that... brilliant idea and i truly shudder to see a clean workspace from you... what new stuff will you chuck at us now...*sweet shudder again*

this guy built 4 tables that would all line up when placed together. Each is 3 ft x 4ft and some had 2 levels

http://agentlemansones.blogspot.com/2011/06/hoa-table-progress-2.html



It can be done, but you really gotta plan it out in advance.

Ya I know, I've been drooling at that table all day!


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The idea of curved brickwork interested me, so I peeled off one cardboard side of a piece of 1/4" foamcore.

And used a scratch awl to deepen a V-Channel on the top mortar lines, all the way down to the intact cardboard layer. Now they take a curve easily

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Now that is a great example of "A picture is worth a thousand words"! After I saw that, all kinds of sewer setting adventures sprang into my mind! Now you need to add the classic walkway next to the raw sewage slough!