TheGM: For a number of years, I’ve pondered how to construct asphalt roads for my game table. But I could never settle on a material for the project. Should I make my roads out of roof shingles? MDF board covered in sandpaper? Or just pick up a commercial […]
I have just completed my most beautiful and satisfying terrain project in years. I wouldn’t call it typical 40K terrain. In fact, most gamers would say it’s more useful for historical gaming. But it was inspired by a desire to really “up my game” when it comes to […]
Building a dedicated game table for the Shorehammer Convention in Ocean City, Md., was a major project for this past year. In June, I wrote about a storage box I built—designed specifically to protect and transport this dedicated table. The months that followed saw me devote an inordinate […]
A Desert Look The next step was to hide the joint lines where one foam sheet was glued atop the other, as well as to blend in the the edges of the plastic details I’d glued down. I used DAP chalk, a form of household sealant that dries […]
Quite often we’ll have some terrain sitting off board just to look nice and a large Thunderhawk would be nice to have on the table for eye candy. (Especially if there is one available and is sitting in a box somewhere.) With the Orky Air armada growing, one […]
Things have gotten out of control in my workroom. Taking a class at night, along with the end-of-fiscal-year madness took a toll and pretty much kept me away from the hobby most of the summer through mid-October. We try to work on several projects at a time in […]
TheGaffer has been off-line for quite a while working, drum majoring, working, bagpiping, and working. It’s been quite a long time since we’ve had an opportunity to play regularly, build terrain, or post to our blog. Freshly returned from Historicon, we’re jumping back in. Also, stepping down as […]
The idea of adding more vegetation to my desert world of Morkai seems, to some degree, a contradiction with the image of a desert. But anyone who has visited the American Southwest understands that not all arid ecosystems are totally desolate. My vision is that there are are […]
About a year ago, I ordered a bag of eight-inch-tall palm trees from China. They arrived quickly, and they were of excellent quality. All they needed was a good base. That’s what stymied me. If you look back on my initial efforts to build desert terrain, I was […]
Although I haven’t written much about my preparations for the Shorehammer Convention later this year, I’ve been pretty busy building terrain, painting figures and—tah dah!—a new cargo box to make transporting my convention games a tad easier. It’s called my Shorehammer Cargo Crate. Some time ago, I reported […]
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