Folding Game Table

God. I wish we were all together going to the lumber yard with the mission to pull an all nighter and just cut and hammer this thing together by tomorrow morning. It would be fun to make like 5-6 of these suckers all at once like a production line.

Man thats would be fun… Spaten Octoberfest, Grilled steaks, and making Axis and Allies game tables… :-D :roll:

Then we can make some dice towers and custom chairs with the icons on the backs.

Oh i suggest you make decals for the top of each drawer, so the player has the national icon on top, plus i would add the unit cost table on top of this also, or inside the top of the drawer.

Imperious, it is the map that Satchel has on his board. He has the leader of each super power embossed on the map with the country’s capital. I am sure that Satchel can send you a link or send you a file with his map attached to it.

AK_Satchel;

can we get the version of the map that has the “leaders” embossed on the different nations?

plus the tech and NA chart?

But laminated is not as protected as plexi.  Sure, it’s protected, but if I’m going to invest the time, I’m going for heavy duty.

As far as weight goes, it’s not a big deal.  I’m not exactly planning to bring in anywhere on a daily basis, so a 200 pound table sitting on a concrete foundation slab isn’t a huge deal for me.  The idea is to have a large map with those sticks generals used to move units around the globe in World War II. (Sorry, just feels more authentic to me if everyone had their own swagger stick or pointer to move their units from territory to territory.  Also means the map has to be bigger so you can navigate the units around!)

Plexi has the added problem of the items “floating” over the board and glare from lights. It becomes harder to read smaller text due to the thickness.

I didnt find any tables already made, but looking into how to build one today. I spent some time in a lumber yard getting ideas.

I did find out how he made the flags, by buying " furniture plugs" that go into holes that cover up the screws. You just drill a hole in the middle and insert a strip of round thin wood in hole. Then glue and paint it black. easy. Lastly, you print flags in quantity on sheets of paper with both sides facing each other and stick on the thing.

Lamination protects from spilled drinks, while Plexi does not.

Plexi insures a 100% level playing surface that can be written upon at need.

Plexi over a laminated map equals a gaming surface safe from even spilled bong water…

Just putting my 2 Bobs worth in as well, congrats over designing such a masterpiece for gaming. I too would make something similar but alas have noone around to play it with. In fact my board has only been used once for games, my only fix is being able to play against the rest of the guys on this site, which I am enjoying greatly.
Anyway good job and it’s great to see these sort of projects get published for all gamers to see.

@ncscswitch:

Plexi over a laminated map equals a gaming surface safe from even spilled bong water…

Gotta design for real world conditions.  :mrgreen:

http://www.filewind.com/

ok use this they take 500mb files!

I was thinking plexi because then you could put any sort of gaming map underneath without necessarily needing it laminated. War at Sea or Heroclix or the like.

Personally I prefer the glares from lexan or plexi to the matte you get from laminate.

Bong water not a problem.

Looks fantastic, do the pieces not look a bit small on the larger board?

naw… thats the way its supposed to be.

The whole point is the map is too small for the pieces because its harder to deal with small areas and also to even see the map properly.

Larger map is the best remedy for cheap companies that don’t want to make a proper map

If you have the plan on AutoCAD I would be interested in that.  I have 2007 so I can convert the plans to PDF from DWG if there is an interest.  I could probably create a plan in an hour or so myself, I am just curious to see your plan.

It’s an excelent table by the way and you’ve got me thinking about building one myself… again.  I have built towers and organizers, but i’ve never followed through on plans for a table.  Mostly because I revise my designs to often.

Tanks for sharing  :wink:

That table is nice.

How much does it weigh… did I miss that answer somewhere?

This table had reminded me of my “dream table”…

Illuminated from below with each territory have 5 colors of bulb below it (territory boundaries would extend below the surface to create chambers to keep light from bleeding from one territory to another), then just flick a switch to change the color of light showing through to represent ownership (like TripleA changes the territory colors).

Cost would be insane…  Need a big Lottery win for THAT table :-P

@ncscswitch:

This table had reminded me of my “dream table”…

Illuminated from below with each territory have 5 colors of bulb below it (territory boundaries would extend below the surface to create chambers to keep light from bleeding from one territory to another), then just flick a switch to change the color of light showing through to represent ownership (like TripleA changes the territory colors).

Cost would be insane…  Need a big Lottery win for THAT table :-P

Not rly if you’re a good DIY.

@ncscswitch:

This table had reminded me of my “dream table”…

Illuminated from below with each territory have 5 colors of bulb below it (territory boundaries would extend below the surface to create chambers to keep light from bleeding from one territory to another), then just flick a switch to change the color of light showing through to represent ownership (like TripleA changes the territory colors).

Cost would be insane…  Need a big Lottery win for THAT table :-P

I’d recommend using LED bulbs since they last over ten times as long as a CFL, doesn’t have any poisonous substances in them, they’re 10 times cheaper to run and they are much more compact.  (Not to mention, I believe the beams are tighter.)

I know you can get them relatively cheap as well, just about all my army buddies and I had a few dozen in various colors.  Not sure if ALL colors can be made, but we had blue, RED, GREEN and white.  (I capitalized the ones that match up with nationalities in this game.)

Pretty sure you could mix red/green to get another color and maybe white/red for a 4th.  Blue would be oceans, obviously.  But mixing it with red or green (Red, Green and Blue being the primary colors for light) could net you the yellows/oranges for the other nations.

Hmm, have to play with it.