04-12-2011, 07:03 PM
Rafael Wrote:I saw the images, and was so happy that I fainted.
The boing was my head hitting the soil.
No damage done, but I REALLY WANT THAT TABLE.
Ah. So I take it that's a good 'boing'...
Um, I think that tables like this are pretty easy to do. They both use canvas drop cloths (cheap, from DIY places like Home Depot) painted as needed with either a spray gun or airbrush, thin cutouts of hardboard as bases for the aquarium / terrarium plants hot-glued to them, and other bits and bobs from pet shops and the game store.
The long Sakbe roadway was made up of layers of expanded styrofoam and some more hardboard, but that's about the only 'custom' item. The ships, all 16 of them, are from commercial sources save one I built myself.
A large bucket of imagination also has a lot to do with it, I think, but that's the way we always gamed; keep in mind that Dave's original monsters were cheap plastic toys and Gertie was a lump of plasticine clay. The dark green Mayan-style temple, for example, is actually a set of cheap (but heavy!) bookends sold to tourists in Mexico along the Mayan coast; Dave gave them to me many years ago, figuring I couldn't do anything too dangerous with them. Unfortunately for him and Harchar, they instantly became scenic items as the Mysterious Lost Temple of the Nameless Ones...
yours, Chirine