Narrative Gamer’s 30k/40k Table

I started off cracking open the boxes and cleaning up and gluing together some of the plastic kits.

The Nachmund building are rather straightforward and will go to the board as a set on pieces. They don’t even need bases.

For the other kits I pretty quickly realised I don’t want to build them as described in the instructions or the box art. Rather do few subassemblies and see how to integrate them into my custom built pieces.

I also found this Mantic terrain crate box, which would fit the set very well.

To figure out the layout, I pulled some random styrofoam pieces and started arranging them on a 6’x4′ table. And with a bit of shuffling around an ideas started to form.

This could be an Imperium/Mechanicum mining colony where they are mining off of a mesa type of hill or cliffs. I’d make the bigger pieces in two chunks for storing and they would probably be set on pieces instead of full on sculpted boards. So after all this would become fairly modular set.

Oh, and I definitely want to build a tunnel and a bridge. Imagine the heavy heresy era tanks rolling through! (more modern Land Raider for scale).

I started off sculpting the story foam pieces and breaking them off a bit to get rid of the straight angles. Messy business (gotta have the hoover at hand!) but fairly quick once you get going. I plan to stuff the hollow bits of the styro foam with crunched up newspaper for some support without adding weights. And all of it will need a good coat of modelling compound (messy business part deus) to solidify and cover for painting.

Already cut the bases from Foamalux PVC sheet, so there will be something very sturdy to build on which is also warping free.

I got my grunt work laid out, hoping to find few free evenings to push this forward.