| Miniaturepainter | 02 Jan 2016 5:51 a.m. PST |
Hi
The first day in the year went with this little project "wild West Water Tower" Building it from a used new years rocket where the head where used for the Water tank itself and the stick for making much of the rest of the structure, some cardboard from my daughters "frost cerial", a Little toilet paper and some balsawood. Take a peek! link
happy new year
Miniaturepainter |
| olicana | 02 Jan 2016 6:17 a.m. PST |
Hi, I'm looking around for ideas for a playing surface for the X Wing miniatures game. I'm looking at both home made and commercially available solutions so if you have any ideas and advice on producing a space arena, or product links to play mats, etc., I'd very much appreciate it. Thanks, James |
| cavcrazy | 02 Jan 2016 6:35 a.m. PST |
If they are X-wing fighters just get a black cloth and dab a few stars on it, maybe paint a few planets on it. |
| Royal Air Force | 02 Jan 2016 7:18 a.m. PST |
I uploaded a graphic purchased from Wargames Vault to an online banner printing surface, works great. |
| Timmo uk | 02 Jan 2016 7:30 a.m. PST |
Hotz do a space themed felt mat. |
| olicana | 02 Jan 2016 8:24 a.m. PST |
A friend just phoned me with this 6 x 4 foot solution for £50.00 GBP inc. P&P. Money spent! link
Using money and vouchers I got for Christmas / 52nd Birthday I'm all ready to go now. Just waiting for it all to arrive. X Wing Purchases: 6 x 4 gaming mat.
2 Starter sets (4 Tie Fighters, 2 X-Wings and game gubbage for two).
1 Falcon
1 Tie Advanced
1 Tie Interceptor
1 Y wing Good start on that one I think. |
 Parzival  | 02 Jan 2016 9:58 a.m. PST |
Option 1: Black glitter felt. Looks great. (What I do.)
Option 2 (what I've been thinking of doing): Go to your local Target and ask if you can have one or two of the starfield printed pegboard covers they use behind their current Star Wars display. They might have extras. Bonus: if you put the sheet on top of a brightly colored tablecloth, you'll have an instant dot grid of one- inch squares. Over black, the grid holes should be invisible. Drawback: don't know how durable this would be. |
| GypsyComet | 02 Jan 2016 11:29 a.m. PST |
Found some rolled up "backgrounds" at Hobby Lobby yesterday. including a starfield. Much larger than X-Wing needs for $10. USD |
| Tgunner | 02 Jan 2016 1:12 p.m. PST |
Hobby Lobby and other art/craft stores and Wal-Mart have decorated star-field fabric that is pretty cheap and looks decent. It's what I use. |
| Mako11 | 02 Jan 2016 4:18 p.m. PST |
Yea, the Walmart starfield fabric is quite nice. |
| Ivan DBA | 02 Jan 2016 5:04 p.m. PST |
I had an online banner printing company do mine in vinyl, using high resolution images from Hubble and the European Southern Observatory. link |
| Waco Joe | 02 Jan 2016 8:17 p.m. PST |
I am another banner person, Banners on the Cheap. I did one side with stars and the other with an aerial view of europe for WW1 games |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 03 Jan 2016 9:53 a.m. PST |
I have done black felt and Death Star trench graphics on foam core sheets.
I was not unhappy with either. |
| Norrins | 03 Jan 2016 12:08 p.m. PST |
I would go with Ceri Designs. £19.00 GBP for a 3 x 3 mat (£38 for two and free shipping) and they've plenty of space themed ones. link Here's my Ceri mat I use for Frostgrave.
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| Redcoat 55 | 03 Jan 2016 7:29 p.m. PST |
Black sparkly fabric, to add situational terrain find high quality images of things like planets, nebulas, and the deathstar. Print them out on high quality photo paper and cut them out, they look beautiful and can be used for unique backgrounds in every game. |
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