WinterCon Demo Table Teaser

[RexIronside]

My dwarves move across my newest themed wargaming board. The Excavation Site.



A Feral WW and shredder fight over the strange relic in the centre.



A joint effort between a mate and I, This table has been built as a demo board with Battlebox games in mind. Come Saturday, after the grand unveiling at Canberra's WinterCon, I'll post pics of the whole thing a well as the construction progress pics.

[RexIronside]

At the venue, set up and ready to play!

[MagnustheJust]

Oooooooohhhhh!!!!!!


I absolutely love the big excavation pit in the middle of the board!!

[RexIronside]

Thanks man. This is a piece I'm really proud of. It took about 3 months to put together. The board and forests being my contribution, whilst Chappy built the awesome cog structures, the feature piece and ramps. We ran a few demo games today, and whilst the repeatability for larger games is minimal, I think it drew enough attention to get people interested in how the game works.

[RexIronside]

Some of the WIP shots.

I started by building up the general pattern with foam. To save on materials the bottom layer is hollow.



The table was coated in plaster for texture and the boarded up edges we're constructed with balsa.



undercoated black and overbrushed in a few layers of browns.

[PG_LazyPeon]

Thematically, the table represents an excavation of an unknown machine, nominally associated with Cyriss. The centrepiece consists of nine stone columns, each bound in a strange alloy and carved with "cog" motifs. In the background of the table, each column moves independently in an unknown pattern, and with an unknown purpose.

The larger cogs (bound in the same alloy as the centrepiece) are meant to look like they extend underground and form part of the larger, hidden machinery.

The stone blocks are not terrain, per se, but support blocks for when models finish their movement and jut over the edge of each tier. I pinched the idea from a blog entry I saw on Lost Hemisphere.

From a development point-of-view, this is a remarkable effort considered all each of us had to work with was a napkin concept drawing I scratched out a few months ago. Jeff built the majority of the table from my description, independent to my efforts on the ramps, columns and cogs. In fact, they only came together at the same time and place last weekend - a week before the event.

[RexIronside]

We had a few pre release gargantuans for the demo table today... I guess they are technically proxies, but they were too cute for any TO to ban.

[PG_Charwood]

That is a really wicked looking table. Keep us posted on any other projects you try to tackle!

- Charwood

[PG_Drone367]

The table proved that it was definitely flexible enough to be used in larger scale games and the quality of the craftsmanship is superb. Attracted plenty of interest for demo games. A complete success guys, now to decide what we are going to do with it...