Feedback wanted on board idea
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Rob_A said:
Well Rob, there is a company in the States that does just that...
https://www.wondermat.com/cart/ordwmr600.html
For a 4x6 tabletop, you'd need 24 of these. I could see this quantity fitting nicely inside of a large carry-all bag. You would have more visible seams though, it "seems". :wink:
Looking at the color (colour :wink
choices, you might even get some blue tiles and use them for lakes and rivers. You could then just have some flocked felt pieces to toss around the border to hide the straight lines. :idea:Expanding on that idea a bit, you could get a selection of the "earthy" colors (various greens and tan/browns (beige and mocha) and make up a "crazy quilt" of terrain, with house rules for crossing at different movement difficulties. Again, in order to somewhat disguise the aquare borders, you could drop irregular pre-flocked felt over those straight color borders to break them up visually.
Going the direction of using various colored tiles might seem like a good idea (as I just mentioned), but after thinking about it for a few minutes it would be easier to just cut a felt river and drop it on a homogeiously colored board than to fit border felt along the sides. :roll:
Yet another take on rivers though would be to have carved-out river sections that could be fitted together. The issue with that though is that if you used 12" square sections it wouldn't "come off" as very realistic. However, getting back to my 24" sections, I could "wind" them much more randomly before they hit a "border crossing". If a person worked at it, they might be able to use the 12" for it though.
Yet another take on rivers though would be to have carved-out river sections that could be fitted together. The issue with that though is that if you used 12" square sections it wouldn't "come off" as very realistic. However, getting back to my 24" sections, I could "wind" them much more randomly before they hit a "border crossing". If a person worked at it, they might be able to use the 12" for it though.
Rabidchild
Mongoose
Do they make a border that you could put around the completed board? The jigsaw pattern around the edge of the table is getting to me the more I look at it.
Paladin said:
A good solution for a commercially made panel would be to reduce the number of interlocks that my prototype has down to just several of them. GW has done something similar with a gaming mat they are coming out with-
http://warseer.com/forums/fantasy-rumour-roundup/51439-plastic-buildings.html
Rabidchild said:
Yes, you can get border pieces. Different companies offer different options, from 1-1/2" to more like 4". If you don't care about the positional changes as much, you can just cut the outer pieces off.
For me too, I'd go with border trim for a finished look.
Gauntlet- said:
Sure, there is give and take with however it is done up. If made flatter, they would ship and transport better. Included "radical" topography like mountains makes it more bulky to transport, but at least if you had two of those panels you could at least stack them together.
Also, if lower topography was designed to fit inside of the bottom of the higher pieces, you could design them to save further space. Then by having multiples of these (of several heights) and also positioned off of center, you could then rotate similar panels 90, 180 & 270 degrees away from others to build mountainous sections.
By being modular, you could have the option of low, meduim, high, or a mixture of course.
Then again, you could design the mountain panels with those little beach ball inflation nipples and then you'd have the best of both. :lol:
Bubba Ho-Tep
Mongoose
Consider this idea stolen. This is a great idea Bu and if anyone asks, I'll give credit, where credit's due. Thanks.
Bubba Ho-Tep
Mongoose
Will do. I plan on picking some up next weekend, though it will probably be after Christmas before I get to it, so manys things to do, so little time.