Infinity Board

As mentioned I have a new infinity board.  This will get revealed in all its majesty soon enough.  However, as a teaser, here are some WIP shots of the base board being made.  It is made out of MDF, some filler, and a lot of cards textured and painted to make the paving. It will have an Asian Quarter with bars and restaurants (mainly from Customeeple), a small maglev station (converted from Sarissa Precision) with a cafe/diner in it (from Ainsty Castings).  There will also be several buildings making up a residential area (from Micro Art Studios) and coffee shops etc (from WarMil) and a lot of scatter from various firms (cars from Antenocitis).  The main feature is a MagLev train passing over the buildings (from Terrakami)

As you can tell, I got a lot of pieces for this board, from a lot of different providers.  Gaming on it looks fantastic, and there are lots of interesting firing lines etc.  I will do a more detailed view of the board next time it is out, but here are some teasers as promised.

Making a new gaming Board

Building Better Worlds

Having been playing a lot of infinity on my modern city board (Look forward to pictures of that coming as soon as the MagLev gets finished) I felt a craving for a green and pleasant land.  So today starts my build a new board project.  I had a GW "Realm of Battle" board laying around.  The first task was to add a proper texture and cover up the bloody skulls.  A few skulls on a fantasy board is fine, but..

1. I want to use this for games that are Historical rather than Grimdark.
2.  few skulls is one thing, but there are hundreds on the real of battle board!
3. The hundreds of skulls appear to be underground, as if the entire population of the world only had heads and all gathered into one place for a mass extinction.  Then thousands of years later after stone and earth had covered their sorry remains, a battle on the field disturbs their eternal slumber!  WHY is there a layer of skulls only under the rock and topsoil GW?

So a layer of sand/gravel and some black paint and the board doesn't have the mass graves of a million bodiless corpses.

So after what seemed like an eternity, the black was dry enough to add the first layer of brown.  This will then (when fully dry) be highlighted an prepared for the next step.  I hope it will be dry soon, as I really would like to get it to the point I can game on it by tomorrow.  With hindsight, I should maybe have waited until AFTER gaming to base paint it lol. 

I will highlight the board with a lighter brown then bone colour, ready for the grass textures to be added.  At this point it would make a serviceable wasteland board.

The next step will be to use various green flocks and scatter to cover most of the board, leaving patches of the exposed earth.  This again will make a serviceable board, but the plan is to go a little bit further.

I have got a selection of different static grasses (various lengths from 1-10mm, and various colours) and some electrical torture devices (static grass applicators) to apply it to the board.

When it is done, a big chunk of the board will look like this test piece I knocked up last night.

Will Update again When More work is done.

Back Again!

After a huge absence I have finally found the time to restart this blog.  This time I promise it will have more regular updates (in my defence, I did have a PhD to work on, and had to prioritise).  As you may (or probably haven't) noticed, I have deleted the older content.  This is to start afresh with all new and interesting stuff.

So what am I going to be posting?  Well there has been a huge shift in focus in the games I play most.  40k has gone onto the back burner, being replaced with Infinity as my main game.  In light of that, there will be an increased coverage of that in this blog.  I will hopefully get some WIP painting of a couple of armies, and some shots and hopefully some BatReps on my shiny new Urban table.  I have had a few small tournaments held recently for friends and people involved in gaming in my area, so I will hopefully grab a few of those gamers together to do a campaign or something for the blog.  I will also do a few tutorials hopefully, using just the quick start rules, as Infinity can be daunting for outsiders.

As well as the Infinity stuff, I will post some stuff on terrain building and other games I play.  There will be some 40k coverage, I will possibly do a gallery of my armies when I get the time to do the photography, and hopefully an 40k based Inquisitorial Warband ruleset (like Necromunda/Mordheim meets Inquisitor) if I finally get it finished lol.

Enjoy :)