That's quite a cityscape. Though from what/where did you get the rather
uniform looking tenement buildings? They have the look of cardboard walls and
a plastic roof?
It's quite a board. I know I'm impressed. I hope the large multi-table
scenario with mountain terrain me and Los will run at GZG ECC is equally
eye-catching.
I liked the idea of Owens' because as I recall it described you could easily
put troops in buildings and it featured a very very congested board (buildings
within 2 cm of one another, few clearings of the 6" variety).
I very much look forward to seeing more pictures of these types of scenes.
Someone posted one long-time back of a (yes blech...) 40K assault on a
Normandy-like beachline that showed an awful lot of work done building
the bluffs with armoured bunkers and trenches. Don't know how playable the
terrain was, but it looked great.
;)
It is an impressive cityscape. They look as through the buildings are from the
Epic 40K set or some other earlier GW product. Definately GW though.
We'll be posting photos of Tom's and Los' 'Grey Day' scenario once the
Convention has concluded. I'll be taking photos as will Mike Richie.
Jon
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> Someone posted one long-time back of a (yes blech...) 40K assault on a
I think I saw the board Tom's referring to at GenCon '99. It was a nice board
and made good use of Armourcast trenches and bunkers to complement
scratchbuilt cliffs and shoreline.
At GenCon '98, Global Games's Stalingrad display was an eye-catching,
grey gritty ruined cityscape and at GenCon '99 it became surreal with crashed
spaceship and strange, colourful daemons stalking aliens in power armour
across the board.
> At 10:54 AM 1/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
GW buildings, from Space Marine and its sequels. I got them all through
Bartertown, and I had another boxfull that didn't make it onto the table.
The others were a handful of microtac buildings, souveniers of the Chrystler
Building and the Empire State, and some resin skyscrpaers produced by Galia,
that they never put into full production for some reason.
> It's quite a board. I know I'm impressed. I hope the large multi-table
What did you make your mountain out of? Our group's mountain was made of
styrofoam covered with modelling paste -- very durable, and gave a nice
stony finish.
(It's vaguely visible in some historical gaming pictures, which you can see
here:
http://www.voicenet.com/~rjfrantz/picpage.htm The top picture, showing
the a town located inside of a dormant volcanic crater, is probably the best.)
> I liked the idea of Owens' because as I recall it described you could
variety).
Armorcast does some excellent 28mm ruined buildings, and they now sell
non-ruined modern/sf buildings as well. Modular construction, removable
roofs, and pretty cheap. I haven't purchased any yet, due to a lack of funds,
but I intend to rectify that soon. And I want to pick up that tank of theirs,
too; beautiful work.
Most of our recent games have been on very built-up boards, filled with
Armorcast and GW ruins. I have a very small table for gaming, so we need to
make the terrain pretty dense if we want the game to go on for very long. I
need to do more Dirtside, or Ogre, games. Either that, or paint up some of
those 15mm guys who are gathering dust....