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[kev1964]

Hi and welcome,

Great looking table, i remember my wifes uncle, bob conners setting up an El Alamien table using sand but unfortunately the cat decided to use it first 

kev

[Leman]

Hi Biffa and welcome. I played my first proper wargame on a sandtable back in 1968. I was also in a position to be able to have my own at that time and asked my mum to get me enough sand to make one. She returned from the local petshop with a couple of stones worth of budgie seed!

[Orcs]

Hi Biffa

Welcome.

It would be great if you posted some stuff about how you addapt the table for non- desert enviroments

Mark

[Leman]

Back in the day we used to water the sand to dampen it then sprinkle green powder paint over.

[Biffa]

Lightly spray painting it is the laziest way but if you over do it then it can form a crust, it's also expensive so is using flock unless you make your own. A local furniture makers near me allows me to collect up their piles of fine saw dust this I then die using very watery emulsion (or Latex paint in the US), I leave it to semi dry out then I pestle and mortar it. You can also get some very 'chocolatey' looking sand colours though we've tended to stick with what we know and are use to it's characteristics.

The trickiest part of using a sand-table is getting the dampness correct and timing it around when you are going to use it and then maintaining the moister level if the battle has to be reconvened at a later date, well apart from the cat issue of which I've had and have many, I won't include pictures for that bit.

[WeeWars]

The trickiest part ... well apart from the cat issue of which I've had and have many, I won't include pictures for that bit.

Wildlife! Deposits? I had a cat who used to bed down on phalanxes of painted and based 15mm spearmen when I wasn't looking. 

[Nosher]

Welcome to the Loony Bin forum.

I'm struggling to envisage dice rolling in sand.... How many cocked dice>

[Russell Phillips]

I'm struggling to envisage dice rolling in sand.... How many cocked dice>

At least figures wouldn't get damaged by over-enthusiastic dice-rolling. I used to play against someone who believed that the higher you threw the dice, the higher the number that would come up.

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[nikharwood]

Welcome, Biffa 

[get2grips]

Hi Biffa: love the sandboard; never even heard of that 

Welcome to "sanity is optional" 

[seano1815]

Hello and welcome, just starting  a WW1 Project with my friends, happy to see another noisy group, we tend to have a good laugh at shows, never tried a sand table, but it looks good.
all the best
Sean