Family Create Their Own Risk War Room
May 11, 2015 by dracs
Risk is one of those games that every gamer has in their repertoire and for many of us it was our introduction to gaming with large armies at our command. However, one family has taken it even further and have succeeded in making their very own large scale Risk War Room!
We came across the images of this fantastic gaming project on imgur, taking us through the creation of a Risk game large enough to let you feel like a true commander.
Creating the War Room
In order to create their large scale Risk game, this family picked up buckets of toy soldiers and plastic tanks from Amazon, basing the soldiers on poker chips to help give them added weight and stability.
These were then sprayed painted (depending on the kids' colour of choice) to give them six armies of fifty single soldiers and eight tanks each.
For the board itself, they got themselves a 4 x 8 sheet of pine plywood, which they then cut down the middle and hinged to help store it when they're not engaged in all out war.
From here, they projected the Risk map design onto it to use as a template, drawing and painting it to achieve their awesome war room table.
The end result is a fantastic table layout that accurately brings across the iconic and colourful map of the risk board game, at perfect scale for the plastic toy soldier armies.
All that's missing for that proper war room feel are long push sticks with which to move your armies across the table.
With that, they're all ready for some truly epic games of Risk.
Dream Project Come True
This project cost around $200 to realise and it looks like everyone in the family was getting involved in creating the Risk War Room. I think the end result speaks for itself, this is both eye-catching and looks like a lot of fun to play across.
Risk is a fantastic game in its own right and I could see this being the perfect way to enthuse people for your gaming sessions. However, I'm now interested to see how they would go about recreating some of the other Risk versions, like 2210AD.
Maybe you could set aside a circular coffee table to act as the moon.
Does this inspire you to go out and work on your own gaming project? What ideas do you have for something like this?
"For the board itself, they got themselves a 4 x 8 sheet of pine plywood, which they then cut down the middle and hinged to help store it when they’re not engaged in all out war"
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WHAT AN AMAZING IDEA! This is fantastic!!!
Amazing!!! I think I see a new project for me to tackle.
…now imagine this with RISK: Legacy.
BoW Ben
Pine farms all over the world let out a collective cry of anxiety.
WOW! Very nice project!
Brilliant
When I was in high school we would play with three boards side-by-side (adding an Australia to South America connection) and triple the card cash-in value.
So we’d get these epic invasions that would start on one board sweep across the middle and end up on the third. Then the next player would cash-in and push back the other way. Kind of fun, but impossible to finish a game, we didn’t mind that too much, though.
Very nice! Had a shock on photo 4 when I thought they’d accidentally sent in an Ann summers party snapshot, but truly excellent! Kudos! 😉
I love it, but I miss the old school artillery and cavalry not tanks 🙂
Those tanks seem to big for the table, but still looks epic.
Looks brilliant!
Excellent work, but Risk really isn’t that good a game compared to what’s been done since, in wargaming and in boardgaming…
Id love to see this with Cthulhu Wars….now that would be epic
Wait … for the cost of Cthulhu Wars I thought they came to your house and did this for you?
that is so cool.
Love the idea, wonder how long it`ll be before another old board game get`s the up grade………..possibilities are endless.
Kingmaker
Super awesome project. Sad that they picked such a terrible game *waits for the flaming* …
Seriously though really cool idea. I just prefer the vast array of much better wargames out there, even Axis and Allies is a more interesting game by far than Risk. The idea is inspired though, and one could do this with so many other games, the possibilities are endless if someone wants to put in the time and effort.
In this case it looks like it paid off big time for these folks …
Cool post.
That’s a fantastic family project!
That is a great project for the whole family.