"Terrain Board Question" Topic

I plan to build a 4 small terrain tables 2 feet by 4 feet each, that can be adjustable for different heights in 1 inch increments, for mountain and hill terrains basicly a lot of different terrain, when building a dam hit me!

I have been thinking since then of building a Hydroelectric Dam as part of a modular terrain board, that would work with the tables.

The spill way would have the electric power plant and such. the dam

I was wondering has anyone else done the same and if so table or teraain wise!

What did you like about it?
What you didn't like?
What would you have done different?

I game in the 15mm range

this doesn't have the dam proper
but it does look a bit like a dry spillway to me

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that's a pretty nice looking board

Wow that is a pretty nice board!

That's a rockin' board! All kinds of variety and possibilities. You, sir, are a terrain making genius.

There's an article on building a dam board in the old Firebase fanzine, somewhere on the net.

Robert

Thinking the old star grunt scene from the late 70s?

I can't believe I built this layout in 2011. You can see more footage of it close up on youtube when it was used at Salute. YouTube link

I forgot to say! The layout was intended as an non-earth planet. One with very big seasonal changes in weather, so this was the dry season creating a riverbed.

The idea being that you get to build a cool bridge but at the same time you don't restrict movement on the table totally by creating too much of a bottleneck for movement. Games with restricted movement can be fun but I wanted something that allowed for a mix of play at show games, so the bridge could still be the focal point for an interesting battle but at the same time the fight could continue to rage in the dry river bed and along the full length of the board.

I used a mix of Old Crow dock sections (6mm scale) to create a sort of wharf area that would be used more often during the rainy season.