Hi Wanted to share my experiences with the Citadel Gameboard which I recently bought and painted. The Citadel Gameboard is here on GW's site: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440158a&prodId=prod730814 Description of the Gameboard and how to paint it on GW's site: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?categoryId=cat440008a&aId=10100005 I bought the Gameboard here (much cheaper than GW): http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/Games...ADEL-REALM-OF-BATTLE-GAMEBOARD/prod_2482.html I had two of the Citadel Scenery Painting Packs: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440158a&prodId=prod1570025 I also had a lot of smaller packs of flocks in different colors (sand, red, black dust, different greens). And various smaller cans of Vallejo Model Paint in different grey shades. I went about the painting the Gameboard as the article above describes pretty much. I painted the whole thing brown, used the ochre as dry on the whole board in broad strokes. As the article describes only use the glue on a 1/3 of the board at a time, it really do dry pretty darn quickly. Important note, the Citadel Scenery Pack is just about enough for the whole board. For once GW doesn't screw you over. But you have to be prepared to do the board in stages. The green flock that comes of the boards as they dry have to be reused on the next. I guess you can do 3 boards and then let them dry overnight and gather the remains that fall out and finished two boards and then the last the day after. Alternative is to buy more flock. Paint is definitely enough though. My plan was to make the skulls in the cracks into cracks with water. But as I painted the skulls over a few time to kill the detail and used two different blues and some Still Water it looked so eerie that I decided to let the skulls stay because some of them can vaguely be made out. It looks kinda scary good. Advice: Don't paint the skulls with the brown paint if you plan to keep them. The brown paint drowns the detail !! Pictures of the finished Gameboard: http://www.imagebam.com/gallery/rkyl2htifg1tqmbg0gyl67tflu3u31cv/ Here the Gameboard is in action with my first battle with the new board + first battle in 8th ed. and 1st battle with my new Lizardmen army: http://www.imagebam.com/gallery/qvmp1lcfq76vqxppjymgqcgx9ldrbim2/ And the battle report: http://www.lustria-online.com/threads/2500-lizardmen-vs-empire-including-pictures.5110/ So what do I think about the Gameboard? The good: 1. Very nice to play on 2. Good looking 3. Flexible when it comes to storage The bad: 1. I really hate the connectors. I used 15+ minutes trying to assemble the thing. I have found no easy way to assemble them. 2. It is more fragile than you would think. Having only painted it and played once it already is a little bruised underneath and where it connects. 3. The fact that it has built in hills is a boon to an Empire/Dwarf gunline army. I play Empire and Lizardmen both and regularly plays against Empire and soon against Dwarfs too. I am a little worried about always meeting those armies with all their war machines placed on hills! Overall: Worth the money if you have enough money to spare. I haven't regretted my purchase. But I hope it holds up and I think the connectors aren't a great solution. But still the nicest board I ever had. Can recommend. If you are interested, I have created these rules for how to randomly decide how to assemble the gameboard for battle: http://pdfcast.org/pdf/citadel-gameboard-how-to-use
Gws are ok if a bit pricy. I uses Zuzzy's gaming mats instead... http://www.zuzzy.com Only around $50 for a 4'x6' mat.
Your board looks awesome, I really wish I end up owning one one day! Really well done and I must admit, the skulls in the cracks look real scary! Also N810, GW has a similar gaming mat to the ones you linked for about 45 CAD$ which is really cheap compared to the 350 CAD$ it cost just to buy the gameboard.
Thanks! Just a note for you regarding prices. If you follow the link above to where I bought the gameboard it shouild only amount to 200 CAD and not 350! Here is the calculation from 125£ to CAD: http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=125&From=GBP&To=CAD
I think the citadel gameboard looks really awesome, but probably a bit too expensive for me. I couldn't justify paying that much. I have also heard the connectors are pretty fragile, somewhat a shame. They do give you extras though, right?
Yea but it is not only the connectors that get bruised.. Nothing actually broke off but it tears at where they connect..
I manufactured my table myself. of course, it is nowhere that nice as the GW on, includes no built-in terrain (which is actually good IMO), but it is pretty stable and solid - it is 6x4" and I can just put it on top of a smaller normal table. It cost me only a few bucks to make. it doesn't fold, as I have a good storage solution - behind a cupboard and don't need to transport it.
The same here. I purchased warped wood (it was not nearly warped enough to sell as cheap as they did though) from the local Home Depot. I think I may have paid 5 bucks fro two pieces of high quality wood. Then I purchased two 1x2 and used that to join the two larger pieces. I covered that with green felt from a local craft store. Initially, it went over a pool table, now it sits on a small round table in a recessed alcove in my basement (with two fluorescent lights over it). I am in the process of making my own terrain pieces for it.