"What Do You Think Of My GAME ROOM???" Topic

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It took me weeks to clean and organize (yes, it was THAT messy), to have it painted and for my wife to put up curtains and decorations.

On December 18th we re-dedicated the room properly, with a small El Cid WAB battle.

CC
PS. Has to be for small battles only, since the table is only 80" by 40".

Not enough bookcases :)

Congrats on getting your HQ up and running – mine won't be commissioned until at least February!

That is what I call a Game Room!
Very stylish, practical and…. and we wants it….

It looks great Dan, your wife has done you proud, hope she cut the tape or smashed a bottle of bubbly on the door to announce its opening :0)

I hope when I move to get a games room..one day

Nice war room. Mine will have to wait until we buy a bigger house in a year or two.
Do you use those katanas?

A very nice space; lucky guy!

Yup, very nice. When I can afford to buy a place I want a games room – as it is my gaming collection is spread over 3 different houses as I've not got room for it all – which is also my excuse for 99% of it being unpainted ;-p

"Do you use those katanas?"

They are just training dummies (wooden ones). I've played with them before, and was almost going to throw them away, but my wife suggested to mount them on the wall.

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Thanks.

CC

Wonderfull. Good work.

Looks great. I wish mine was that organized.

Ok. I re-organized the photos a bit better . . .

Now the first 13 photos in this collection are basically a 360 view of the game room.

CC

I was concerned until I saw the closet.

Very pretty.

But you need a LOT more table surely?

Bigger table?

I wish. Maybe in the next house.

Unfortunately, that is all I can fit in our current home, and still have all my figures and storage confined to a single room that I can actually call my own.

The garage is not an option. I don't have a basement and our attic is miniscule.

ElCid1099 suggested making some changes to the deployment zones, which still gives us plenty of space for games no bigger than 1250-1500 pts.

For bigger games we'll have to look at local gaming shops.

CC

Oh!!!!, it's alright for some,harrrumph!!!!

You might at some point consider a table held up by book cases – that would let you squeeze out a few more feet in the room. Might get you from 40" to 60" and that's a pretty god depth..

Very nice looking room.

CC, very nice. It looks tidy, and good news, there are some open spots for more terrain, miniatures, books, etc.

Good looking game board, too. Is that a WH Battlemat, or one of the train scenic mats that you've cut up and placed strategically to represent the grass?

Great job CC! I see the terrain that you and Brian were working those years ago came out great. Viva Espana!

Nice, CC. Geez, mine was nicely organized like that once, but chaos being the natural order of things, etc, etc…

Condotta,

Definitely cut-outs of the battlemat:

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I took some pieces and dyed them a bit darker with an acrylic paint was, then cut and pasted them.

In addition, I added clumps of static grass from GW, Noch, Woodland Scenics and combinations of all of them.

Hope that turned out ok.

And the boards themselves are half inch mdf:
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The two that I plan to keep on the table most of the time are 40" by 40". I also have four 20" by 40" pieces for added variety:

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CC

Too respectable…not enough cleavage :P

Did you just say "to have it painted"?

Can't get over how… spartan… it looks. Mine's wall to wall bookshelves and display cases. You actually have room for art.

"Did you just say 'to have it painted'?"

Yep. That room has been a total mess the last couple of years. Basically a messy storage room.

Besides, my wife's dad is a building contractor and he had a couple of crews paint all the outside of the house and about half of the inside. The game room happened to be among the rooms done.

Quite a deal too.

CC

Nice room CC, good looking game too. I've been without a games room for many years now. My wife and I share a room. One side I have my painting table and cabinet the other side is her scrapbooking things.
But *SIGH* no space for a gaming table.
Our local group has 4 tables at different members homes. The largest being a 6' x 18' monster.

Very nice, CC! Looks like a lot of work getting things in such nicely organized areas. That can be a boon in another way. You probably re-discovered things in the clean-up and re-orging you had forgotten or couldn't find. I know I always find (or re-find) things all the time like that. Nice terrain and figures too!

Very nice- packed a lot into that space!

Thank god I have both an understanding wife and a basement! I dont want to derail your thread by posting picks but my gaming area is…. "roomy". Its about 40'x20' and holds well over 30+ years of gaming stuff.

In about 3 years we will be moving to TX- we are already looking at house plans to figure out how to put an equivalent space into the new house as they dont believe in basements out there.

Blackhawk1,

Thanks. And please DO post you picks! We need all the ideas and encouragement we can get.

CC

Alright revolutionaries – prepare to storm the game room it is obviously a capitalist plot to force others to expend money to build something so extravagant! Alright, it isn't extravagant – but it is cool. A very nice room and what a way to christen it – an El Cid game!

Now all I wish was that I lived closer!

M

"Now all I wish was that I lived closer!"

You are welcome at our home any time.

CC

Nice room.

Good use of the space, CC! Have a blast!

Man… I've been wanting to buy a house more and more this last year.

I never had the desire to own a house at all, until about a year or so ago, but it's becoming a real urgent desire.

Being able to put together a game room like that is a big part of the motivation. Looks great, CC.

Blackhawk1:
"In about 3 years we will be moving to TX- we are already looking at house plans to figure out how to put an equivalent space into the new house as they dont believe in basements out there."

nope that just gives the scorpions and rattlers a place to congregate

what area you moving to?
Dave
New Braunfels TX

It looks great!

very nice – I hope you win most of your battles in your new wargame room. may you role more than your fair share of sixes!!!!

Regards

Tony

Highly Cool !

Call me when you get a 42 inch plasma on the wall. Lol…

Dave= Looking at the Gulf Coast: Corpus-San Antonio-Victoria area. Of course it will depend on where I can get a job in aerospace. I'm hoping to get into Corpus Christi Army Depot actually. And rattlers dont bother me- I used to have about 60 venomous snakes- cobra's, rattlers, Gaboon vipers, puff adders, copperheads, etc. Scorpions though… ick!

Cacique and others- Ok.. here are links to gaming area:

First thing you see stepping into basement with my Star Trek Xmas tree as the wife has decreed no Star Trek ornament will touch the "official" tree:
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View from bottom of basement steps with my cat Gambit on his normal perch:
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Looking down the basement with the 2 4'x8' gaming tables- one for RPG and one for mini's:
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Looking the other way with my modeling table WAY in the back:
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SHelves of Dwarven Forge terrain:
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To heck with the Room look at the figures!
VR
James Mattes
(getting ready to lose my 20 foot gameroom this next month ;-( )

Great stuff! I'm inspired to go out and get lots of plastic storage boxes now and clean up my room. I have a similar room with about the same amount of stuff with about the same size robes. I guess I should probably clean mine up as well.

Regards, David – Ace
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This gives me a few problems:

1) The wife wants to know why I want to take over the main living room for a table when yours fits nicely?

2) How come you can keep it so neat?

3) Why no pizza / coke / coffee / tea and other vital wargaming supplies?

4) No rule sets on the floor (shock horror)

As I have had to give up my room for my son I'm now green with envy (as well as being room less).

nicely done – I hope you have many happy hours in it.

Andrew

I like your terrain – did you make it yourself?

"I like your terrain – did you make it yourself?"

Indeed. This other thread was back when I had done those mdf boards:

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CC

Nice job. I like the way the room looks. Here's mine: link (scroll down to the article below the most current one). One of te things that I've found is that I rarely sit while playing. I put my table atop 36" bookcases to save my aching back. I have a couple of stools to rest tired feet while gaming.

I also use my tabletop for a miniatures photography studio (a blog article is in process). it's the at the right level to avoid bending over too much to look through the viewfinder.

I'm considering getting another hunk of plywood and gluing felt to it for playing Wings of War, RPGs and board games. You might want to consider the same thing sized for your table.

My table is 4x6 which is the biggest that would fit into that room. The walking space around the table is only about 24"…a tight squeeze for some of my more…ahem…robust players.

I need a bigger house!

I hope other post pix of their tables too! The more ideas the better!

Nice war-room, CC. Now at least when the wife says "go to your room!", you can say "Thanks, honey!".

Very nice room. Too clean and organized for my tastes, but very nice ;-)

The battle looked great. Love the paintjobs on the figures and the terrain.