Today I went over to Lowes with my buddy Mark and picked up 3 sheets of 8 X 4 green board. A foam type board about 1 inch thick. We also picked up a gallon of flat latex green paint, loaded it up and drove over to his house. We cut up the boards in 3 X 4 foot sections. This gave us 6 boards that we needed to have. We had three 2 X 4 foot scrap left over and I had him cut up one of those so I could have two 2 X 2 sections for my Skirmish game Ronin. We painted the first three big boards and two little boards that we are going to have dry over night. Then we will apply a second coat for good measure. Mark came up with the idea to use the rest of the scrap to make hills with and since he has a hot knife and more importatly done this before I thought it a great idea. Including driving to pick the stuff up it only took us a couple of hours to get as far as we got. So a pretty good time investment so far.
The idea is that if these boards work out okay is to build a frame around them and use them for other stuff in the future. Maybe spruce them up a bit to make them look fancy.
Well that's it for now.
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Kevin
Busy lads! Good luck with it all :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Aaron, I am overwhelmed with it all, but things seem to be coming together.
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Kevin
Nice looking basic board! Cannot wait to see these covered with terrain pieces! Hey... I can't wait to be playing on one!!!! Woohoo!
ReplyDeleteThanks Skip, I saved the paint chip card so we can match the paint in future. Just a few more weeks until the campaign begins!
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Kevin
Very impressive.
ReplyDeleteSimple and quick, we hope to spruce them up more later. Thanks Dean.
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Kevin