| Baconfat | 01 Jan 2015 11:34 a.m. PST |
If you'd like to fund a folding table made out of cardboard look at this ridiculous kickstarter. "please guys, no drinks on the table" link |
| Cardinal Ximenez | 01 Jan 2015 11:45 a.m. PST |
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| Waco Joe | 01 Jan 2015 11:52 a.m. PST |
Wait, she was taking about a table?  |
| Katwerks | 01 Jan 2015 12:01 p.m. PST |
This the most ridiculous kick starters I have seen. |
| Privateer4hire | 01 Jan 2015 12:10 p.m. PST |
You can buy a couple of 4 x 2 folding sturdy plastic tables with metal legs from Walmart, Lowes or Target for around $80 USD-$100 depending on sales. |
| haywire | 01 Jan 2015 12:17 p.m. PST |
I can buy a plastic and metal fold out table for $30 USD or less |
| Disco Joe | 01 Jan 2015 12:49 p.m. PST |
Are they for real or was this just a first shot of a comedy routine? |
| Marshal Mark | 01 Jan 2015 12:55 p.m. PST |
I can't beleive the funding target. Why did they need $99,000 USD to get this project off the ground ? |
| grommet37 | 01 Jan 2015 1:41 p.m. PST |
If you go to buy 2' X 4' tables, INSPECT THEM CLOSELY IN THE STORE. The tops are generally smashed, and you may go through a dozen to find a couple good ones. Or be blithe about it, like I was, and go back to the store after you get home and check them. They dent and crack during shipping and handling (they usually move a box of eight or ten with a forklift). They're super-convenient to have around the house if you find a couple that aren't too badly damaged to be worth the forty bucks. I own two, built a third one from wood, and have the material to build another. 2' X 4' is a lovely and modular size. I would not buy a cardboard one. You can build one out of materials that you can fit in an SUV without folding the seats down. Sheet stock is sold in two-foot-by-four-foot sizes very commonly now. Two hours (at most), around forty bucks worth of stuff and some very simple tools and voila, new table! If I can do it anybody can. link |
| Tom Bryant | 01 Jan 2015 2:43 p.m. PST |
If they used corrugated plastic. like Coroplast instead of cardboard they'd have a real winner. Even in the cardboard version if you were to paint and seal it well enough it should be OK but at what base price? If they are more expensive than the $40 USD Wall World cheapies (don't know if this was from a Euro source where such tables might be more expensive or not) then why bother? |
| IUsedToBeSomeone | 01 Jan 2015 3:05 p.m. PST |
An old project which was successfully funded here for a lot lower target: link Mike |
| nazrat | 01 Jan 2015 3:38 p.m. PST |
"I can't beleive the funding target. Why did they need $99,000 USD USD to get this project off the ground ?" Baby needs new shoes! 8)= |
 Bobgnar  | 01 Jan 2015 8:04 p.m. PST |
A clever idea. The table may not be very well built but the spokesmodel is. My first wargaming table was a cardboard wardrobe box. I moved from Chicago to Boston and the packing included a couple of these. Dick Bryant came over to find out what wargaming was about and we played Column Line and Square with Airfix figures mounted on heavy stock paper. He liked it so much that he stayed up all night and made a 5 by 4 foot folding table that he brought over and so we used that from then on. link |
| Mute Bystander | 02 Jan 2015 5:29 a.m. PST |
It was funded once, why not try again?  |
| freewargamesrules | 02 Jan 2015 8:57 a.m. PST |
The video sounds like an old episode of 'Allo 'Allo…a game of war 'ammer |
| axabrax | 02 Jan 2015 10:37 a.m. PST |
Why are you posting a link to a KS that ended 6 months ago and was already over-discussed and analyzed? |
| Who asked this joker | 02 Jan 2015 5:04 p.m. PST |
You can get 2 of these for $90 USD plus shipping apparently. Still cheaper than the $99 USD plus shipping they are offering. I don't think this is a horrible idea if it is cost effective…which it isn't. Many crowd funding projects are not all that cheap. Or maybe it's the hobby that's not getting cheap. |
