Marvel At The Creative Mine Shaft WWX Table From Rob Hawkins Hobby
September 14, 2015 by deltagamegirl22
If there's one thing in gaming that we all can share, is our appreciation for the time and talent that folks can put into their hobby. Some pictures have surfaced for a recent table made by Rob Hawkins Hobby for Wild West Exodus, that frankly blew my mind.
He crafted a 4x4 table that not only looks beautiful on the surface, but is built for you to game below. This table is designed for players to game in the mine tunnels below the surface. It was constructed with a lift off portion of forest, which then exposes the elaborate maze of mine tunnels underground.
It's complete with mine car tracks and dead ends, and even a cave in!
A board like this can really take your game to the next level and perhaps even allow you to play your game differently. On XLBS this weekend, a question was posed about making other games fit into a dungeon delving type of scenario.
To me, something like this could provide exactly that type of game by allowing you to incorporate exploration mechanics into your Wild West scenario.
What do you think of this clever gaming board design?
"It's complete with mine car tracks and dead ends, and even a cave in!"
Looks great, it reminds me of the kobold encounter in Nashkel mine from the Baldur’s Gate video game. Would make some great fantasy scenarios in there 😀
Man, that Rob Hawkins makes some really inspirational – and aspirational – gaming tables! This one in particular is fantastic and I can’t help but think it would make a great board for Shadows of Brimstone as well!
…We are not worthy!
I’m not a bad ‘modeller’, but that is beautiful.
Oooooh wow…..
As @unclejimmy said, “We’re not worthy!”
Just wish I had:
a) the talent to build this
b) the patience to build this
c) the space to build this
One day when I win the lottery perhaps…..
Agree on all 3 points. And the lottery comment. It’s sad that I can only admire great tables like this on the internet.
The gaming area also needs space for the hill top if models are going to be fighting up there at the same time.
That is awesome, love it, sod the day job i want to build terrain like that!
awesome! what a great table! I really like the multi level. can make the game so much more fun to play, with surprise attacks, etc.. ^^
A beautiful piece of work. I’d love to spend time building stuff like this, but where on earth would I put it :).
Very nice! The building looks like it might come from Barmill’s
That’s just fing fantastic
that’s awesome. Can’t help but think that would look even better with some zombies shambling round it 😉
Quite beautiful, just imagine the shoot-out in the mines depths.
Wow that looks brilliant.
I take my hat off to Rob Hawkins, that is a great looking table. It looks just like the mine on the console game Red Dead Redemption. I would love to play on a table of that quality.
Rob Hawkins is one – if not the – best terrain builders! This mine is just amazingly beautiful.
He actually just finished two tables for Wild West Exodus… the Mine above and a Factory… both sets of pictures are on the Wild West Exodus Facebook page as well as a couple of WWX community pages… https://www.facebook.com/WildWestExodus?fref=nf
Rob has also said his blog should get more photos of both tables soon… http://robhawkinshobby.blogspot.com/
Perfection!!!