Global Gaming Table Threads and Pictures

General 6 Stars

I do have the office chairs and you also can sit anywhere on map. Pretty much just Germany, Russia and Japan do most of the sitting.

I do have a another sheet of 4 x 8 plywood and if the map is to large for players I can switch out and dismantle the larger size.

Thanks for reply YG.

bighammer

OK, finally getting around to posting and getting some pictures taken and uploaded to photobucket, but I’m having trouble including them here. I keep getting this message Sorry, you are not allowed to post links.

What started as a plan to cut plywood to a proper size to put over an old table, evolved into a custom-designed, ultimate A&A gaming table. It was a great project for over the winter break. (my son is a junior in HS)

We created a list of must-haves, looked at photos of other tables, and refined our plan. We downloaded the map file from here and sent it to VistaPrint for a custom poster. It took some kind of conversion of the file thru another site to be able to send it, but it worked out well and the final product is beautiful. (~$65 shipped)

We bought some turned legs, lumber, plywood, glue, hardware, stain and paint at the local big-box lumber store. We worked out a design that has sort of a “trough” along each edge to hold the boxes for each army. They were each painted to a color to closely match the pieces. (custom-mixed samples form their paint dept.) at each end is a “dice pit” with an incline to roll them to the outside edge so they are visible from a distance.

Hopefully, I can figure out how the picture posting works. Seeing it is easier than the thousands of words to try to describe it.

John Brown

@bighammer:

OK, finally getting around to posting and getting some pictures taken and uploaded to photobucket, but I’m having trouble including them here. I keep getting this message Sorry, you are not allowed to post links.

What started as a plan to cut plywood to a proper size to put over an old table, evolved into a custom-designed, ultimate A&A gaming table. It was a great project for over the winter break. (my son is a junior in HS)

We created a list of must-haves, looked at photos of other tables, and refined our plan. We downloaded the map file from here and sent it to VistaPrint for a custom poster. It took some kind of conversion of the file thru another site to be able to send it, but it worked out well and the final product is beautiful. (~$65 shipped)

We bought some turned legs, lumber, plywood, glue, hardware, stain and paint at the local big-box lumber store. We worked out a design that has sort of a “trough” along each edge to hold the boxes for each army. They were each painted to a color to closely match the pieces. (custom-mixed samples form their paint dept.) at each end is a “dice pit” with an incline to roll them to the outside edge so they are visible from a distance.

Hopefully, I can figure out how the picture posting works. Seeing it is easier than the thousands of words to try to describe it.

Bighammer, you have to have enough posts to gain privileges, such as posting pictures. You will probably have to wait till you have to 20 to 25 posts, before the administrator will grant you this privilege.

You will get there soon enough, just join in the many thread discussions, and eventually, it will open up where you can post your pictures.

Welcome to the forum!

Can’t wait to see your table. :-D

John

bighammer

OK, I’ll keep posting here and there. :-D

bighammer

Is there a purpose in the post count? Make sure I’m not picture-posting bot?

John Brown

@bighammer:

Is there a purpose in the post count? Make sure I’m not picture-posting bot?

They just want to see a history of posts, and to make sure, it is not someone spamming the forums.

bighammer

So if I were to just post…

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… and say my lowercase H key wasn’t working and it only need one in front of it, would that work?

bighammer

Just curious

ttp://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm229/sv650bighammer/DSC_0685.jpg

John Brown

@bighammer:

So if I were to just post…

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… and say my lowercase H key wasn’t working and it only need one in front of it, would that work?

Bighammer, unfortunately, pictures and computers are not expertise, but I’m sure one of our fine members will answer your question.

Sorry, I’m just not good with these things. :-)

John

PS I do believe when you get up to 20 or 25 posts, you will be able to post pictures, when the administrator, unlocks your profile. So, it won’t be long till you get the privileges.

Many forums are like that these days.

bighammer

It works now, WooHOOO! :lol:

Not the greatest pictures, I was sort of passing thru and needed to keep moving, but wanted to snap a couple before I forgot.

Young Grasshopper

That is freaking awesome Bighammer, you should start a new thread in this forum with those pictures so they don’t get buried. SSSOOOO much to talk about, one of the best I’ve seen… start a new thread and show it off.

John Brown

Man that is a pretty sweet setup you got there, Bighammer. :-D

bighammer

There’s a side of me that wonders if I made more of these, if they would sell. (and for how much?) The first is always the slowest, but after all the measuring and figuring is done, it gets pretty simple to do….

CWO Marc

@bighammer:

There’s a side of me that wonders if I made more of these, if they would sell.Â (and for how much?) The first is always the slowest, but after all the measuring and figuring is done, it gets pretty simple to do….

There would probably be a market for these – no doubt just a small and specialized one, but this wouldn’t be a problem because I assume you’d build the tables only on request rather than producing an inventory, so you’d never have any unsold stock lying around. The technical issue you’d have to figure out, however, would relate to shipping and assembly. Shipping costs might well be significant for something as heavy as the table…but the real problem would actually be volume. The fully assembled table could only be shipped by truck, which is probably okay for local customers in your town but becomes more difficult between cities. My guess is that shipping costs depend both on weight and volume, so to keep shipping costs down you’d presumably have to work out a design that could be shipped flat-packed (kind of like Ikea furniture). This in turn would mean that the design would have to allow for easy assembly by the customer upon receipt (again, like Ikea furniture), using very simple tools (a hammer and a screwdriver) that the average person is likely to have around the house and using simple instructions that the average person could follow. There are probably home-handicraft hobbyists who have the specialized tools, the skill and the enthusiam to handle more complex assembly requirements (I certainly don’t fall into that category), but it would limit your potential market if your design was aimed at such hobbyists rather than at more general customers.

Dafyd

I have been looking through this thread and have been very encouraged to make a table for the 4x8 map that I painted on piece of masonite. The tables featured here have demonstrated the simple and easy to the fine furniture quality that I would like to make. Are the any recent examples that have not yet been shown. I would love to see it. I won’t have the place to build an entire room around it with all of the decorations and the B29 flying over it (which I loved by the way) but I want to build a table that I can put a cover on and use it for a table should the need arise or atleast to protect it from grandkids and others who just can’t resist playing with the I G Joes.

pfc_pander

Finally finished my game table. My first game on it is today.

pfc_pander

One more pic

General 6 Stars

That is a great looking table. I see you used the pool table counter like YG. Where do you get that at ? What stain did you use ?
Also like the wide open dice boxes.

I could just buy the rods and beads with holes in them and make it myself.

CWO Marc

Terrific table in a terrific-looking game room! Very, very nice. I’m intrigued by what seems to be the French flag: is that an eagle I see in the middle part of it?

pfc_pander

@SS:

That is a great looking table. I see you used the pool table counter like YG. Where do you get that at ? What stain did you use ?
Also like the wide open dice boxes.

I could just buy the rods and beads with holes in them and make it myself.

Thanks! I didn’t use a stain because I like the natural look. I did put three coats of polyurethane on it which gave it a honey shine. The abacus is just put together from pieces. The rods were a couple dollars from Home Depot, just cut up some wood blocks an drilled holes in them, and the got the beads online that were already stained for about $15.

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