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Scenery Gaming board design and construction

Cageyblood said:
This is such a cool project to do. I look forward to seeing updates.

Do you have a setting in mind already? Are you going to be emulating the above pictures not just in concept but in location as well? (i.e. a temperate grassland with cliffs, hills and scatter terrain)
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It will be along the same lines yes
 
I’ve ordered some 150mm round bases that will be the bases for scenery features, the idea is to make them interchangeable by having 150mm holes around the board where I can slot the scenery.
 
Sounds good.
But why not use a self made base for that?
 
Crowsfoot said:
I’ve ordered some 150mm round bases that will be the bases for scenery features, the idea is to make them interchangeable by having 150mm holes around the board where I can slot the scenery.
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Questions: why does the Scenery need to be slotted? If the base is only 3mm thick like a normal figure base it couldn’t just sit wherever it needs to?

Drilling precise holes nearly 6 inches diameter sounds like real work.
 
pendrake said:
Questions: why does the Scenery need to be slotted? If the base is only 3mm thick like a normal figure base it couldn’t just sit wherever it needs to?

Drilling precise holes nearly 6 inches diameter sounds like real work.
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It doesn’t, I might not do it yet but I thought it would look better
 
What sort of landscape are you wanting to go for? Will there be large edge-of-the-Board pieces like in the example photo?
 
pendrake said:
What sort of landscape are you wanting to go for? Will there be large edge-of-the-Board pieces like in the example photo?
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Death inspired landscape, sparse vegetation, crumbling buildings, dead trees, etc etc
 
Graphing out an idea:

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A-D-E could be swapped freely.
B-C-F could be swapped freely.

That is at least (6x4x2) x (6x4x2) = 2304 different board configurations. (Possibly more....not sure I have the combinatorial maths correctly sorted.)

Also note that each square is ~approximately~ 152mm.
 
pendrake said:
Graphing out an idea:

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A-D-E could be swapped freely.
B-C-F could be swapped freely.

That is at least (6x4x2) x (6x4x2) = 2304 different board configurations. (Possibly more....not sure I have the combinatorial maths correctly sorted.)

Also note that each square is ~approximately~ 152mm.
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I like that layout alot
 
Crowsfoot said:
I like that layout alot
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Thanks.

The bright colors could be the sandy/gravel/rock strewn areas. The open zones could be that leather texture by itself. (Or reverse it.) I only used colors for easy reference. The key is to have the boundary between the two types intersect the edge of the tile at exactly the middle.

Note that each tile can be rotated 180°. But that 90° rotations will cause a texture mismatch.

The 150mm rounds you’ve got on order would fit just inside any square of the graph paper.

I calculated the total configurations two other ways: came up with either 46,080 or 23,040. (Not entirely sure how to eliminate duplicate combinations that result from rotating the entire table once it is assembled.)
 
I had a discussion with a friend who is better at Maths than I am (...very literally used the phone-a-friend option). I now believe the correct answer for Number of Combos is:

92,160 :wideyed:

:writing:
24 × 10 × 8 × 6 × 4 × 2
 
@Crowsfoot will there be two or three big, multi-level, terrain pieces that fit against the edges of the table?

(I ask because the example had such things.)
 
pendrake said:
@Crowsfoot will there be two or three big, multi-level, terrain pieces that fit against the edges of the table?

(I ask because the example had such things.)
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Not as high but yes I'm hoping so, I think if I can make it one level and then have modular levels that can be moved around.
 
Small update,

I went to purchase the HIPS sheets and the cost came in at £110 shipped so before I hit the buy button I checked ebay.

I found a brand new Shattered Dominion board for £140 so I bought that instead, lets see if it arrives....

Done some work on 2 towers will post pics soon.
 
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