zaevor2000 wrote:Sorry for the inconvenience. I will go establish an account on Photobucket and post my pics there. I didn't know there would be a problem linking to another place. I was under the impression that I could link to another location. ...
I have not seen many skirmish boards completed and I wanted to contribute and show pics of a completed set.
Well, you know we DO love to see pictures around here. So our own selfish motivations will contribute to the number of folks who will extend to you a helping hand. Let's get them pics up, and have a look!
I don't think this forum has any difficulty linking to other sites. The question is whether the other site is open, or closed, to un-registered users.
(BTW I now have more than 350 pictures up on Photobucket. It's a pretty good service, and very easy to use.)
Thought I might add in an idea for those who have lamented the gaps that appear between hex-sides. Let me start by saying that I am not a user of hex terrain, nor have I ever even played on hex terrain. But I have played on some wonderful gameboards, and I certainly admire the hex terrain work I've seen done by some of the regulars on this forum.
A couple years back I was gaming pretty regularly with CG Erickson (used to show up occasionally on this forum). He was professionally trained in architectural modelling, and he makes some of the most magnificent gameboards you could ever hope to see.
He made his boards out of larger-sized rectangular foam tiles -- his desert terrain on 2 x 4 ft tiles, his temperate terrain on 1 x 2 ft tiles. There were of course fewer seams than on 4" hex terrain, but still there were gaps of 1 to 2mm between boards.
In our later games he started sprinkling static grass over the gaps. It worked out pretty well. Here is a picture from one of our games:
I've chosen this one because we (I?) had accidentally bumped the left-side and shifted the boards a bit in the long direction, causing the static grass on that seam to fall and expose it to your view. But if you look at the other seams around the battlefield you can see that the static grass gives pretty good coverage (except where the roads cross a seam). So you can compare and contrast how obvious the seams are when not covered, versus how well they blend in when covered. Somehow the camera / lighting makes the grass-covered seams more visible, but in person they were almost impossible to see.
It was a simple and effective technique for putting the finishing touch onto a game layout. I expect that a board that holds the hexes in reasonably securely should help to keep all the seams covered well through minor nudges and bumps over the course of a game. Y'all might want to consider trying it.
Oh, and post some pictures if you do!
