Salute 2012 Cutlass! Table

[Stuart]

Thread for discussion of table design & build for Salute next year.

[manrogue]

http://www.beastsofwar.com/rama/terraina...ate-table/
^Quite a nice Pirate table!

[Stuart]

You star Vince - I've been trying to remember where I saw that!

[manrogue]

Lol, bored at work so scouring Beasts of war at the minute......
If you wanted to do something like that it would be fun to do i think, and realtively easy(bar the massive ship!).

[Simon]

This is my current idea for a cutlass board. It's very basic. Board 1 on the left, board 2 on the right, but gives some idea of what I'm trying to achieve.



Top left we've got the LH (Lighthouse).
The W's are warehouses.
Fntn - fountain.

On the second board we have contour lines to indicate a hillside/cliff face.
Top right you've got the plantation owners residence, with the slaves and stables on the road.

The main area on board 2 would be the governors residence, with a church, graveyard, stables, barracks and a lake which empties into a river running down the bottom of the 2 boards. Maybe a waterfall of some kind as it crosses the cliff side.

For pirate boats there's always this sort of thing.

[Simon]

On reflection, change the lighthouse to a small fort. Lighthouses didn't really arrive to the Caribbean until the 1880s. Might be different on the barbery coast.

This era is circa 1650 to 1750, Henry Morgan and Bartholomew Roberts time.

[Stuart]

For pirate boats there's always this sort of thing.

There's loads of great pirate stuff on that site - I've had the buildings bookmarked for a while. They have a nice little cannon for a quid too.

[Simon]

Found this interesting.

Forget the ships, look at the buildings used for the 3 ports.

Another set of pics here

[Simon]

Revisions to this..

I think it will be best to do 2, 4x4 tables. That would make it easier for the board cutting. The tables we use at the club are 6x4 cut into 2x4 chunks. So a single table cut appropriately.

Dave @ grandmanner mentioned an important aspect of terrain tables was storage and transportation. Looking at the size of the tables Dan has been producing i think the tables would need to be cut into 2x2 chunks.

I'd also concentrate on doing board 1 first.

Initial Stages..

Start by sticking 25mm pink foam to the board.
Layout the boards together and transfer the diagram to the board.
Mark out fields, grassy areas and areas where small hills would go, ponds etc.
Carve out the harbour and northern coastal region.
Get the main buildings in (I've a few ideas for these), and the boats, allocate them to the table get some idea of scale marking their locations.
Carve out the river/creek (this could go horribly wrong).
Carve out any of the road network required. Adding cart ruts etc
Finish the coast and sea.
Start work on the inland area.

Whether we go to Salute or not I might have a crack at this project, my only limitations are space (garage is full of classic mini, and wargaming figures, making the layout of a 4x4 board pretty tricky), and time.

[Stuart]

It's definitely an interesting project that captures the imagination, so I'm also up for helping out even if we don't take the table to Salute. We've got loads of pink foam board lying about just waiting for a project like this!