Too Many Tables: Tackling Terrain


Over the past three years, we have been hard at work rebuilding, retooling and adding to our existing terrain collection. Make no mistakes, this is a massive project that has consumed thousands of volunteer hours and has been responsible for numerous hobby knife accidents! All told, we have produced 150+ Warhammer 40K tables, 70+ Warhammer Fantasy tables and a whole host of additional tables for other events like Warhammer Ancients, Warmachine/Hordes and Lord of the Rings.

Our Warhammer 40K tables span a range of thematic settings, from frozen ice worlds to Necron homeworlds, each table has been crafted to have a distinct feel, while still maintaining a coherent approach in terms of the types of terrain present and total table coverage. Each table contains 6 to 8 pieces of terrain and each piece is built in a modular fashion so the terrain flats can take additional elements like trees, rocks, alien cacti and crystals.

The terrain project for AdeptiCon 2011 involves fleshing out our existing terrain sets, adding some additional elements to terrain flats, repairing any damage suffered and adding some significant line-of-sight blocking features to every Warhammer 40K table.

The crew responsible for this monstrous effort hails out of Springfield, IL. Capital City Games has been leading the terrain charge for almost three straight years now, and they are without question an invaluable part of the AdeptiCon experience. Not only do they volunteer a massive amount of time and effort, they also provide the space needed to take on a project of this size. Eternal gratitude gentleman, eternal gratitude.

Enough with the talk, here are some photos! You can see more images of the terrain effort, as well as photos from our past events, in the AdeptiCon Photo Gallery.

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6 comments:

  1. This is awesome to know. IMO you can never have enough terrain. The new stuff looks rad.

    : )

    G

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  2. Are those yellow buildings the HDF ones from that place in Australia?

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  3. Those buildings are a mix of kits from FlyingTricycle in the States and CNC Workshop from AUS.

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  4. Having assembled 28 of those buildings last weekend, I have to say the precision on the kits is amazing. While they might lack a little in the details department, they certainty provide a study foundation for some solid, usable buildings. The stairs are the only 'difficult' part and even those go rather quick once you get the hang of it.

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  5. That is just a legendary amount of terrain! Man I cannot wait to see it in person!

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  6. The terrain looks awesome. My little group is looking to start building terrain in preparation for our own tournament.

    I would like to know how some of the pieces were built if it's not too much to ask. Specifically things like the removable terrian pieces. The bases are whole sawed but it doesn't go all the way thru. It it two pieces of boards put together or one piece and you set a depth of the whole saw not to go thru?

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