Afghan Mountain Boards – Day 3

Applied the pigments and ground covering tonight. Some of the ground covering will blow off once everything is dry so there will not be as much ground covering as you see in these photos. Tomorrow I add some trees and start adding a few Afghan Hovels into the hillsides.

That block of white foam is attached to the bottom of the air conditioner because if it wasn’t there you could really slam you head into it and end up with a nasty gash in your forehead and blood all over your face…. don’t ask me how I know that, just trust me.

My new gaming table

My new gaming table has room to store 18 game boards underneath and can accommodate 15 boards on top in a 3×5 arrangement (with the end boards hanging off the ends 2″ each) or a 3×4 arrangement with room on the table at each end for papers, rule books, dice, sodas, beer, pretzels, etc.

Now I’ve got to finish the rest of the “room”, it’s really going to be more of an enclosed patio but it will be very nice when it’s done.  The roof is done and some of the wall panels have gone up.

P.S. If you are wondering, my gaming boards are 20″ x 20″.
Two reasons for this;
1) In my rules that is one square kM
2) You can actually get 8 boards out of a full sheet of MDF, you cannot do that when you try to make them 24″ x 24″

Working on some more terrain boards

Tonight I started work on 4 more Middle East boards.  I’m making these as generic Middle East boards that can be used for several regions.  I know that some areas in the Middle East are just sand forever and others are hilly or even mountainous, so I’m trying to do something that is desert with a little terrain to break things up a bit.  After all, modern MBTs facing off at 3000 meters across flat sand can be a little boring. …. so a little artistic license is being taken with my terrain boards.

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