Keep Cool on Deep-Cut Studio’s Ice Planet Mat
February 25, 2014 by dracs
Gaming Mats are always a good way to achieve a good looking setting for your tabletop games and Deep-Cut Studio have released two more locations for you to battle across.
These Ice Planet and Battlefield terrain mats are well detailed and, with the addition of suitable terrain, would probably fit well with a number of different game settings. The Battlefield one in particular would work well with both historical and sci-fi settings.
Do you ever use mats like these?
Hoth or Tatooine… decisions, decisions…
I have a PVC space mat. It’s nice, but the material creases very easily. Very very very easily. And it has a slight shine to it. The modern “mousemat” -style mats are just simply better (but also more expensive). In general, I think these tend to look better in pictures than in real life. In real life they are… well, flat. Putting 3-D objects (minis) on top of them just serves to bring attention to this. The more “3-D” the print is, the worse this is, IMHO. In my opinion these mats suit space, naval and air games best. Too… Read more »
thanks for the review, I’m looking for a sand mat liked the look of the deep cut stuff. Not sure the shine will work with sand… Can you get the creases out? Towel on top and then cool iron? Any insights welcome. Thanks
Hah, I could have used these when I was running my Star Wars campaign..
I think the Ice Planet one has a lot of promise since it’s just begging for a few of those GF9 Ice Crystals (or perhaps the AT-43 ones) and maybe a Wampa! I’m not so sure on the other mat though.. the craters are very small and look to be about the same size as a round 25mm base which throws off the scale of the rest of the art on that mat. I can see it working well for 10/15mm though.