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I've seen a lot of these terrain kickstarters starting. My question is for boards like this and castles like on another, why use resin? It's expensive and heavy. Why not go with good styrofoam? I have my old GW castle and my blood bowl board that were made of foam. They are light sturdy and it's easy enough to chip away to model damage. It just seams a better material, I've had both the bloodbowl board and the castle for over 20 years, they are very sturdy.

The only issue might be painting, just don't use canned spray paint and it will be fine.

I'm pretty sure these are plastic...

 Andrew1975 wrote:
I've seen a lot of these terrain kickstarters starting. My question is for boards like this and castles like on another, why use resin? It's expensive and heavy. Why not go with good styrofoam? I have my old GW castle and my blood bowl board that were made of foam. They are light sturdy and it's easy enough to chip away to model damage. It just seams a better material, I've had both the bloodbowl board and the castle for over 20 years, they are very sturdy.

The only issue might be painting, just don't use canned spray paint and it will be fine.

These are clip together, hard styrene plastic, with attachable trays.

Confirmed, These are hard quality plastic. It is light, durable and made to last.

Regarding painting. We recommend to spray on it first to prime it.
We use army painter Sprays.

Best!


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 Andrew1975 wrote:
I've seen a lot of these terrain kickstarters starting. My question is for boards like this and castles like on another, why use resin? It's expensive and heavy. Why not go with good styrofoam? I have my old GW castle and my blood bowl board that were made of foam. They are light sturdy and it's easy enough to chip away to model damage. It just seams a better material, I've had both the bloodbowl board and the castle for over 20 years, they are very sturdy.

The only issue might be painting, just don't use canned spray paint and it will be fine.

It's not resin. It is Hard quality plastic =D. We recommend you prime it with a spray. We use army painter. I think I answered the rest above =P.

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 Alpharius wrote:

GamesNGears wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Has the Sci-Fi board been previewed yet?

Coming soon, hoping today, latest tomorrow. We have a strict process with detail and quality and you will see in this design. All I can say is that I cannot wait to play on this board and for it's hybrid boards .... then it's themed specific boards. It's looking good. As soon as I can post it. It will be on here first!

If it is as good as we all hope, I expect you'll see a rush of new pledges!

I know I'll be in for either a 4' x 6' minimum, leaning towards a 4' x 8' for that old school 40K table size battle!

=) would love to see pictures of your armies on them. I can confirm we will release it tomorrow as when we show it , we do and always hope it has the wow factor. Sorry for the delay but quality and detail is paramount to us.

Best!!

I hope that too, I am waiting the Sci Fi board to introduce this kickstarter on the Infinity Forums.

Yeah,
Very excited to see the new boards!
I want to back this project and a mix of boards sound like just the ticket for me. Some scifi and some Cracked earth.

Panic...

Same here - where are the new pics?!?

First off thank you all for your enthusiasm. Just a few more hours!! sorry for the wait!!


Best!!






Sci-Fi Wars Battle Board. For 40k, Infinity, X-Wing and all your Sci-Fi Battles. These could be an advanced manufactorium, inside a space ship, advance industrial complex, space station, moon base, city complex. Or what ever your imagination can think or style you wish to paint. Whether sci-fi Gothic or else
If we hit stretch goals you will get the hybrid battle boards. So you can have for instance cracked earth & Sci Fi Wars and if we complete all stretch goals so far more themed Boards for each battle board.

Your pledge and support is much appreciated and we hope to get you this battle board to your home . Cannot wait to see pics of your laying on this. Your pledge will make this happen.

Best!

Ok... I'm sold, gonna pledge.

Nice, quite intriguing design, not sure if it can be used as a city, but as a doc, starport, indeed installation interior, looks really promising, with hibreed boards it will look even more interesting.

Dear Darkeldarcrone,

Thanks! We cannot wait to use to play our 40k, Infinity & X-wing battles!!

You can paint it in a gothic style and battle on a high end forge world or upper levels of a hive world. Fits well with infinity. Also great with a X-Wing space battle.


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 PsychoticStorm wrote:
Nice, quite intriguing design, not sure if it can be used as a city, but as a doc, starport, indeed installation interior, looks really promising, with hibreed boards it will look even more interesting.

Absolutely, we want this for players to use on their sci fi worlds human or alien worlds. So for 40k players, infinity players and others they can fit it in their worlds. Also depends how you paint it. You can make it very gothic or very futuristic. Up to you. Will Marines hold on to this advance complex or will aliens overrun the complex (for example)?. The Hybrids with this look awesome!


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Also can be used for Relic Knights!!

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Awesome, just got into Relic Knights too and waiting for my faction next year. I like the fact that it looks like the insides of some imperial warship. Good excuse for my Dark Eldar to raid! Will pick up 4x6 board.

yeah,
That is interesting, not what I expected at all.
And while it will be useful for some, gothic future cathedral, I feel its vertical/horizontal symmetrically obvious tiling puts me off somewhat.
I doubt I'd want more than 1 of these as an objective tile.

I can see that creating a single 1'x1' tile with lots of grand detail that can multiply without creating an easily spottable repetition must be difficult.
But you must be able to create a pattern of ill regular rectangles that when rotated 90 degrees breaks the repeating pattern.

Or without the grand detail and going for a tiling design a grid would be good like a blank space hulk. (Like my aborted press mould effort.)


Panic...

Dear Panic,

Thank you for your comments!

These are tier one designs for all the battle boards. So the idea is to add to this battle board and give it more breadth and a battle scene feel.

We do have a space hulk board in mind. But we want to show you our capabilities in design and detail as well and also giving you many options to paint and bring it to life. For instance each tile can be painted slightly differently whilst maintaining a strong degree of colour co-ordination.

We hope if this Kickstarter is successful with yoursupport. We can expand our Sci-Fi wars battle board and give you a battle scene where you can expand, create and morph into your own liking.

Great comments and well noted Panic!

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Sci-Fi stuff looks intriguing!

Btw awesome work on that project!!!

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 Zweischneid wrote:
Sci-Fi stuff looks intriguing!

Dear Zweischneid,

Thanks!! We are very excited about it. We cannot wait to add to this range. It is very cool as a stand alone but there is so much more to it. Hopefully with the communities backing we will get this kickstarterd for the long term. All your support, comments and pledge is greatly appreciated.

Best!!

I've fallen in love with the Brick city scape, and the fact the shipping is free to Canada! Perfect for my Brushfire/40k needs! =D

But... This ends about the same time as the Kingdom of Death kickstarter....

My poor wallet.


If I am to make any suggestion, I would suggest a cracked earth title with a grid moulded into it. Would be brilliant for RPG's! Counting on how many spaces fit on a single 12"x12" tile you might be able to convert it into a nice Blood Bowl field... Alot of potential.

Lockark wrote:
I've fallen in love with the Brick city scape, and the fact the shipping is free to Canada! Perfect for my Brushfire/40k needs! =D

But... This ends about the same time as the Kingdom of Death kickstarter....

My poor wallet.


If I am to make any suggestion, I would suggest a cracked earth title with a grid moulded into it. Would be brilliant for RPG's! Counting on how many spaces fit on a single 12"x12" tile you might be able to convert it into a nice Blood Bowl field... Alot of potential.

Dear Lockark,

Thank you, your comments and the rest of the dakka community really does spurr us on. Thank you for your support and hopeful pledge. This really is a community endeavor and we hope it is a success.

We are actually working on your suggestion as a couple of gamers have got into contact with us on this. We should release something in the next few days. It will be a self adhesive transparent PVC sheets (like the iPad screen cover) which will be 12" by 12" with 1inch square grids. These grid sheets will stick on smoothly and flat on our battle boards. We suggest you paint the boards prior applying the grided sheets.

These sheets will be available on our optional load out. This way you can choose how many battle boards will be for your war gaming andnhow many for your RPG.

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Update: Next few days we will show you our Games & Gears gaming bases which have the texture of our Battle Boards so your armies bases fits your battle scene.

You glues our circle textures to your bases. Sizes for 40k, Warmahordes, Malifuax & other games.

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I have to admit, I'm a bit letdown by the Sci-Fi board.

I feel bad because in all honesty, I don't know what would make a good 'generic' Sci-Fi board - but this one is way too busy for me, and doesn't really seem to fit either the Gothic 40K style OR the Streamlined aesthetic of Infinity either.

And a full 4' x 8' board of this tile? Looking at it might cause me to become dizzy and fall over!

Best of luck with this campaign though - my best bet now seems to be your success here so you can come up with something more 'generic Sci-Fi' later on down the road.

Dear Alpharius,

Noted with thanks! It is a real shame that we cannot get one painted up in time. So we can show you in better detail! :/. As the real justice to this great battle board is when it is painted up and done.

But we do have other boards in planned for the sci fi genre. However these will be released after a hopeful successful Kickstarter.

We will try an attempt to show you with different painting technique how an urban war battle board can be every bit as much Sci-FI in the days to come.

Once again thanks for your input and it is noted! =D.

Best!!!

I really like the entire Gaming Board concept but I've gotta agree with Alpharius about the Sci Fi one. I was really looking forward to what the board would be but, seeing it, it's not at all what I expected and just seems WAY too busy.

Maybe because it's too "man-made" a pattern that placing walls or buildings over it would just make them looked dropped on randomly?

You mentioned a grid and a future Space Hulk board. I'm sure I'm not the only one that would be all over those if they were part of this Kickstarter and I'm sure you'd see your Kickstarter pledges soar.

Good luck !!!

A kickstarter I would actually buy into. Sadly I didn't get the promotion I was after, so have no money. I wish I could support this. Good luck, as when I get a new job/promotion, I will be buying this.

Just a special Dakka Dakka preview. How about this Battle Board for your battles on Imperial worlds. Sci-Fi Urban War. You can paint it marble, stone, or even as metallic plates. This design is not confirmed yet. But one we wanted to initially put out.


Let us know.

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I actually REALLY like the sci fi board. I pledged for the GBP 100 board for cracked earth and will probably add on some sci fi boards to my pledge so I can make an installation in the center of the table (I'll make walls, etc). One of my friends is probably going to pledge to get a 4x4 cobblestone for Mordheim.

We got allot of positive reactions to the sci fi wars battle board =D and allot of people are starting to kit out there boards using the Sci-Fi Wars Boards. So your pledge & support is much appreciated. So we thank you all for the general great support on this highly detailed battle board!

What are your thoughts on the Sci-Fi Urban wars boards? (pic above) This is not part of Kickstarter yet. Let us know.

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 megatrons2nd wrote:
A kickstarter I would actually buy into. Sadly I didn't get the promotion I was after, so have no money. I wish I could support this. Good luck, as when I get a new job/promotion, I will be buying this.

Thank you Megatron, your support regardless means allot to us!!


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Awesome, awesome product. Can't pledge on any KS this close to Xmas, but will be buying these on release.

Thanks for making an alternative to the GW RoB board that doesn't suck.

The surface options are great too, I can finally get that mordheim board I always wanted!

I would like to see a general rough surface that could be painted as dirt or asphalt/concrete.

CptJake wrote:
I would like to see a general rough surface that could be painted as dirt or asphalt/concrete.

They already make one, that's the standard board (grass/sand/dirt/concrete)


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GamesNGears wrote:


Just a special Dakka Dakka preview. How about this Battle Board for your battles on Imperial worlds. Sci-Fi Urban War. You can paint it marble, stone, or even as metallic plates. This design is not confirmed yet. But one we wanted to initially put out.


Let us know.

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I think this would look better with staggered squares, instead of rectangles. Squares would look like marble sheets, concrete/sidewalk slabs, steel floor plating...

Like this:

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What do you think?

I really like the brick board that you just showed. Very nice, can be painted as very clean, or metallic like you said. Lots of promise with that one.

Now, with your 12x12 boards, surely you've thought about road systems right? These can be as simple as the Lego base boards, just allow people to plug and play to make roads across their map. You could really liven them up though if you wanted the city board concept, as then you put sidewalks on each side, instead of the blasted terrain or brickscape. This would also really allow you to make some awesome cratered roads, or let people do that themselves for those that want that.

Anyway, while I'm not drawn to your sci-fi board, I think you need a more generic "cityscape" feeling board, where that feels more Mario Kart or apocalyptic gladiator arena(with requisite Vegas lights and chainsaw noises). And if you're going to go for the future warehouse/starship/etc feel, why not just some diamond plate or ship decking?

Great concept, great looking boards you've got. I now know how the European guys feel with crosspond kickstarter shipping. Only its a double kick to the since GBP are more expensive, so I'm not saving anything by your currency being depressed. Severely. Luckily, I send as much of my currency to support groups at miniature gaming stores as I can!

I wish you guys luck and look forward to seeing what else you guys crank out.

Thanks for all your comments will touch base on all your great comments.

Just to add free shipping to the USA and other countries as stated on kixkstarter. Your support and pledge will bring this company and all our gears about.

Thank you for your well wishes. Means allot to us.

Best!!!