Thanks!
I too am starting to warm up to the different colors on the table. Makes them stand out. The best part is; they come out so that I can transport the table. Bonus!
And I probably could have used your wood knowledge 10 days ago! hahah. But that’s good info for sure.
Here is the link to my build thread. Hopefully this helps someone in the future get started on their own. We will be playing our first game this weekend on it. I will post pictures when we are done.
I’ll be adding the pics to the original post when I get a chance. Stay tuned!
Should have tried to sneak the maple leaf in there somewhere!
This is a sweeeeeet table. I used a lot of the same ideas in mine.
happy gaming!
Germany however completely forgot to move ANY of his navy, nor did he attack or sink any of the UK’s navy.
WOOPS. :?
Much like a lot of others, this site has inspired me to create my own table. I have zero woodworking skills so I knew this would be a challenge. I’m going to go through the step-by-step of what I did if anyone is interested in doing the same thing. I will however, need someone to post the pictures for me as I can not do that yet.
My first step was to go online and find a printing retailer. I used the file that Young Grasshopper sent me (he is using the same one I believe) and it ran me about $30 with shipping to have it printed on piece of vinyl. I then went online and found some containers at, imagine this thecontainerstore.com that I wanted to use for holding the units etc… I wanted to have both of these items in my possession before I got started so that I could base my measurements around them.
Once those things arrived in the mail it was off to the hardware store to pick up some wood. I got 2 - 4x8 sheets of plywood. One sheet was 1/4inch thick, the other was 3/4. I also picked up about 8 2x4’s
I cut the 1/4 thick piece to the exact size of my game board. I then centered it on the 3/4 piece, glued and nailed it down. The idea of this was to give me sort of a “lip” when I enclosed the game board itself. it also helped me frame the table without having to worry about fitment of the board.
Next I took the 2x4’s to a friends house and had him “rip” them down to 1x2 pieces. I found out the hard way that if you buy a 1x2 piece of wood from the store, that it’s actually NOT 1x2… I guess I didn’t get the memo. I now had my wood that I was going to use to frame out the board and put my separators in between the different compartments.
Since I already had the 1/4 piece of plywood centered and mounted at the center of the 4x8 sheet, it was easy to frame the whole table out. I laid the 1x2’s on their side (meaning that I had a 2 inch tall “wall” going around the whole table) glued them down, and screwed them in from underneath . This left me with a bunch of room on the ends, I ended up using that as my dice rolling area.
Once it was all framed out, I sanded down all the wood then I stained EVERYTHING. I actually tried to use a stain color that was close to the color of the compartments I bought but that was a complete fail - It’s WAY darker. Oh well, at least it still looked OK :roll: you can even see the difference in color between the boxes I got and the color of the table.
On the sides I glued some felt that I got from the craft store directly to the base. I then added a kind of rim around them using some smaller pieces of wood to hide the cutting imperfections. You can see the spot here, before I put the felt down:
All that was left to do now was glue the print out of the board down. (in the pictures the board seems to come and go randomly, that’s just because I couldn’t help but mock it up in place while I was building)
I added all my pieces to the compartments, put the compartments in their respective places and then BOOM I was done! I had laid out where I was going to put them specifically ahead of time based on where that country is on the board, and how big of a power they are(how many game pieces they actually had).
There is a little bit of staining that still needs to be done in the dice area, but for the most part it’s complete.
all-in-all this took me about a week to complete. And I’m a perfectionist. Thanks for looking!
Thanks Gamerman,
I have been a long time reader - but I just recently signed up. I’m glad to be here. Everyone I have encountered so far has been very helpful. :-D
Thanks!
I just wanted to make sure!
Question about the NO’s for global -
Does the US get the 25 IPC bonus when they are at war? or is that just in the European version?
Thanks!
These are great! They are especially helpful for newbies, and for those of us that can’t tell the difference between a cruiser and destroyer. :roll: