If you couldn’t tell by my tyranid puppet and Space Marine costume, I’m a big fan of Warhammer 40,000. Those projects were both upscaled representations of the armies I play in the tabletop game. However, as the name implies, a tabletop game needs a tabletop to play on. While I can always go to my local game store (shoutout Torchlight Games and Hobbies), I wanted a board to play at home too.
It is meant to represent a Hive World, a planet covered in ancient, densely-populated, gothic sci-fi megacities. I wanted to create not just something that looked pretty, but was also a playable battlefield with all the same advantages and obstacles as real urban combat. Bottlenecks, obscure sightlines, and limited mobility for large vehicles. A single one of the 24″ square tiles is also a good Kill Team board.
The street tiles are two layers of foam stacked on top of each other, 2″ of EPS (because it’s cheap and bulky) topped with 1″ of XPS pink foam (because it’s much nicer to carve into). The arches were laser cut and simply glued on along the perimeter, with 1/4″ strips of poster board as curbs. The bridges were 3D prints that I modelled in Fusion. The ruined buildings are just ruined buildings. Games Workshop sells those.
The tiles were all originally mounted to MDF project board, but I have since elected to remove the MDF for ease of storage.
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