GW Realms of battle

         This was one of the tables snatched off eBay. I never did anything what it. While working on the City Table I got the bug to finish this one too. This time I stole the table idea from Luke's youtube channel.   I did not go totally desert on this one. This battle board needed to pull triple duty. warmaster, force on force, epic, maybe Africa/Sudan

Games Workshop battle board

        5 dollar 25lb bag of sand from Home Depot, 2 cans of dark brown spray paint, dark green and spring green flock (hand mixed with the sand), spray bottle, and quart semi gloss poly. Everything was sprayed dark brown. Then poly was brushed on. A shaker was used to flock it. The sand was the cheap shit. After the first tile, I found out the rocks in the sand were way too big. The sand mix needed to be sifted.

All the holes the large rock created had to be fixed.

Dam Skulls

          The skulls were filled in with the same method used for the city table. This time they look more like dried up watering holes.

         Following the railroader method, the tiles were coated with watered down PVA 3 times. They say it keeps the flock in place and prevents it from being rubbed off. This beast will get a proper testing at HMGS' Fall In.
        If it takes damage, it ok. I have save enough of the sand mix to repair any damage. Plus the damage it takes will allow me to adjust my method.

Matching terrain pieces.

Epic Armageddon City Table part XI

The tiles are down. And board base coated. ****two tiles are missing.*****

         The rock faces and cracks were stained. Then the entire outcrop was dry brushed white, heavy washed with testers black wash. As soon as it was covered, a paper towel was used to lift it off.

         Those dam skulls. I know someone thought they were a great idea. Yet everyone tries to fill them in or cover them up. As a broken ground, rough/dangerous terrain idea, it sucks. A sunken road or sunken stream would have been so much better.
           I do not want a pond, swamp, puddle in the middle of my tile!

          Mine are filled in with railroad ballast. Primed, pure white glue, fine ballast, watered down white glue, ballast again, and watered down white glue again.

My ballast of choice mixed in with some kitty liter, stuffed into an old spice container.

 Looks like crap while your doing it. Still 1000 times better than skulls.

These are the first six realm of battle tiles. There are 3 more waiting for FW roads, after Fall In.

The realm of battle story;
         Over the years I have bought and sold maybe 5 realm of battle boards. 2 were commissions for a local club in Boston. Another I sold because I thought at the time they sucked and I was selling the two I had off. Then I bought one for 150 and was back to two with 3 extra tiles. I got a game room in the old house. Built an 8 by 6 table and had the idea I should have tiles enough to cover it.  I ended up with 14 battle tiles. 

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6mm Desert terrain XV "O sammy special"

The O sammy special is a creative mess. The compound is the easy part. The surrounding area is turning into the lion's share. And a bit of a mess.

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Two extra fields.

Epic Armageddon City Table part X

         The project went cold. It has been long dead. The last update was 14 Oct 2014. Almost 3 years ago.

The idea stolen from some dude who did this for a GamesDay 15ish years ago

Well.............. I said it would happen, as it has happen to others!


          "I think it is everyone's dream to have an Epic city table. Mine too, and like most I have failed to create anything remotely cool and useful. Before there was never a plan or layout, just random projects here and there slapped together. Now there is a plan! 
          Today the dream starts, 08 JULY 2013. How long it will take? Will I ever finish the table?"


Here I go again. Will I ever finish the Table?

The wife has the same look, when I start talking about a city table.

Who knows how much I originally sank into this project. As the boxes jumped out of storage "label city table." I had to keep saying who bought all this shit? What the hell is in these boxes?

         The first tile up is the Church. It will sit on a hill or raised area. Something like the acropolis in Athens. Again.........Except the hill's purpose has changed. I am saving the other 3 sections of the hill for later.

Game On!

GW Realms of Battle board

All the tiles are down for these two.

Only one more tile to glue down. No glue left.

All three will get painted at the same time, to ensure they end up matching.

6mm Desert terrain "pipes" part XIV

I started off using wall board paste. I was hoping it would dry unevenly, crack. Then give me some nice busted up, damaged chunks to create sections trashed be conflict.

Well after 3 days that shit is sort of dry. It also sticks to the blue stuff. All the online reviews said nothing stick to the blue stuff. Bullshit!

Next up is amazon sculpting epoxy. It turned out as expected.

I must have damaged the mold when cleaning the wallboard paste out. The mold was effected by the warm water and some detail got lost. Doesn't matter so much as these will be suffering battlefield damage.

Moving Storage.

So there I was minding my own business. 

Uhaul send me 35 miles in the opposite direction to get a truck I ordered over a month ago. Delayed us by 2 hours. Then the help cries when they see the wall of storage. Its a 10x10x10 (really a 9x8.5x10), 1000SqFt.

Stock photo. There is no snow in NY, YET.

We load the truck in an hour and a half. The artwork and tournament arms ride in the car for safety. Well sort of. Dad flipped them and place them upside down. (I am lazy 90% are not magnetized) Artwork made it.

26 footer through NJ. I have never been in the right hand lane on 287 south. WTF? Lanes come and go. Two lane on ramps, right lane becomes exit only. 

This thing sucks gas as if there was a hole in the tank. Plus it will not go faster than 75.

New storage is a 10x10. Gate key doesn't work. I have an 8 number code, should be 9. Got the area manage on the phone as we were after hours. She gave me the special code, 6 numbers. Opened the door and just by looking at it you can tell it is small and not square. The size is porked.  It is 10 sneakers by 8 sneakers and only 8 feet high. All the shit does not fit! Today I will go and scream at the storage people. Then call Peg, the manager and work a Trump deal.

And finally fix the broken, not chipped, tourney armies that got flipped.