""Thats not a moon!!" playboards first test pours" Topic

first out of the mold

four out of the mold

Are these going to be available for purchase?

planning on it! will be a 3'x3' set with 6 towers.

Those look really nice, Scotty!

Stay on target --

AWESOME!!!

Can't wait to hear more about them!

Cool, I was looking into doing something similar for spaceship hull boards. I thought it would be too expensive to be really commercially viable though. You have a cost estimate yet?

Nice work!

That looks so AWESOME!!!

Paul of the Man Cave
tasmancave.blogspot.com.au

Very very nice

Looking good. Shame you don't have access to a vacuform machine, doing them in styrene wouldn't be as sturdy but much lighter and maybe cheaper (haven't priced vacuforming costs since Armadillo was still in business).

There are websites that show you how to make your own Vacuform machines.

Ditto what Inari7 said. I've built one and it was relatively easy and a lot of fun to use, although it did not turn out to be optimal for the pieces I was trying to make. For a flattish thing like that which would be easily trimmed, it might work very well. The weak link is the vacuum source. I used a really big shop vac, and it worked OK.

Doug

I'm starting to think of ways to chop it up and turn it into a trench…

I'm not super familiar with Vacuform machines, but I've not seem much vacuformed terrain that is as intricate as the panels above.

Can a vacuform machine even do that kind of fine detail?

will be a 3'x3' set with 6 towers and turned brass barrels. Looking at $99 USD retail out of resin. have a couple feelers out to try and get that down lower. But for me to do it right now thats the price.

Been looking into a vacuform version but not sure about the detail.

CW

Slicker'n Bat Guano Scotty! I'll need me summa dat!

My suggestion, Scotty, would be vac form panelsfor some areas with spaces to drop in detail tiles of resin.

Say on a ration of ttwo or three to one so for every single, full detailed resin panel there's a two or three vac form panels, each of which have a space for one or two smaller areas of detailed resin to be dropped in.

Sort of best of both worlds (they'd make for a cheaper – and lighter – set).

Keep the towers in resin though!

Just a suggestion – the whole thing is an awesome plan (and I'm not even much of a Star Wars fan!).

The only time I was involved in a game like this was 25 years ago or so in 1/72nd

and all of the scenery was scratched from expanded foam and kit bashing.

Your's looks terrific!

John T

I've built Death Star terrain in the past and had lots of fun running the attack on the trench at conventions.

The pics are here:

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David G.

John T… That is really friggin cool! Tournament play for this game is going to be on a 3X3 board so that why I went this way. I am not sure I can eat the cost of a vacuformer with the number of sets I will would make that much of a difference in cost to me.

Anyone interested in this set please contact me at
swadyko2000ATyahooDOTcom

Perfect for FFG's new Star Wars game.

Exactly

That is a great idea. They look fantastic.

Would people be interested in buying a mold instead?
Cw

I would be interested in a mold if it was reasonably cheaper…

What do you guys think the interest would be in buying molds? I could sell just the molds as well. I think I would make a 6"x 6" master and mold and the standard 12" x 12" mold. It would probably be $50 USD-55 for the 12 and $20 USD-25 for the 6. Each mold if properly used will yield 70-80 tiles. if you use dental stone you could feasibly make the tiles for under $1 USD each. Ill still sell the towers though.
Thoughts?
Scotty

Shipping those tiles might be a problem, I could see them breaking very easily in the mail. Are you able to cast in a rubber? (I never cast before so I don't know)

No brother. The molds are rubber. You can make the plaster tiles with it

Shipping those tiles might be a problem, I could see them breaking very easily in the mail.

Past experience with similar pieces says there shouldn't be any breakage problems at all as long as they're packed flat and tight and adequately padded. The weight, on the other hand, is likely to be an issue, and I'm not sure how well they'll fit Flat Rate boxes.

Impressive. Most Impressive!

Thanks,

John

Selling the molds is a great idea.

Doug

There's a stunning trench set up going to be at Hurricon next week. This time, I'll take a damn camera and throw images onto the blog.

Mold prices sound reasonable to me!

What did you pour the above tests with?

Very impressive! Price for the set isn't cheap, but sounds very reasonable for the content.

I'll take one!

I'd buy a 6x6 mold.

I use vagabond resin

Niiice.

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

@Scotty – Vagabond resin? Wow – you are a brave man! That stuff has a terrible stink when you are first pouring it…

not the new stuff. they made a new formula this summer. the oderless is awesome.

turbo lasers

WOW! :D

I think selling molds is a great idea, especially for those residing in lands far away. I would be interested in buying a tile set if it wasn't for the expectation of a prohibitive postage price. Whereas a one off mold purchase and the ability to make my set larger as required is a completely different prospect. Count me in for a 12" mold and a 1/2 dozen towers, airmailed to Downunder.

Theres something wrong with the edit feature!

Dglennjr,

Great looking trench fight. I built one about 5 years ago. It did not look anywhere near as good as yours. More work than people think to make it look right.

Real nice guy, so I'm not sure why the product seemed so "rough", but after receiving the tiles, none of the edges matched flush and were so poorly cut that I still have trouble believing they got shipped out like that, even with a disclaimer of items needing finishing and or sanding. Shame.

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Very much mileage varying…

About what I expected; not the kind of work I'd take on, of course. I are a wuss.

But I'd think it could look smashing in the right hands.

Doug

Honestly, that's not a hard fix, Neuropunkstudio. Well, keeping the corners square would be a pain, but not too hard.