Hey from me to you all

I'm here because I'm a Sandboard wargamer (there's a few of us out there with strong floors and a good hoover), WWI is especially good using this type of table- hence my first post. You can usually find me each year in the front foyer at TWWS Cavalier with a bunch of reenactors wargaming in kit making a lot of noise...if we're invited again next year. I'm also a scratch builder, oil painter and I sometimes get my name on the back cover of pc games software as an 'adviser'.

Hello Biffa,
Welcome to the friendly forum!
Please leave your sanity at the door. 

Hi Biffa and welcome

QuoteI'm a Sandboard wargamer

intrigued, any pics


Matt

Hi again Biffa !
Cheers - Phil.

Welcome on board .

Hi,

always nice to see a new inmate .... forum member

In my experience there's a friendly, knowledgeable and helpful crowd here so I'm sure you'll enjoy being here.

Sand tables .... ... wow! 40 years or more since I had one of those. Oddly enough mine was used primarily for WW1 games with Airfix figures and their British Tank kit. It provided the original "destructible environment" gaming experience with incoming artillery stonks collapsing trenches and creating craters to hamper movement but provide cover!

Hello and welcome!

Also interested in pics of that!!!

Sand table!

Luxury! Though I always found the terrain a little bit too fragile with heavy handed opponents. 

Hi Biffa, welcome to the Forum!

Hello Biffa

I'd like to reiterate all the above and more.

Hugh

Hello and welcome 

Meirion

Hi Biffa! - and care to tell us more about the "grandfather that worked in the map room at Sandhurst"?

Hi Biffa (again). Don't you find the sand has a scouring effect on figure paintwork?

This is my sand table, it's the smallest of the two we use, might be able to get a picture of the larger one once our main campaign gets started.

First picture is the map test the other three are close ups of old 25mm ECW figures closer in on the board among some of my trees. I also find the tables great for siege battles usually 15mm medieval, they're perfect for growing siege lines, hence our obvious movement into WW1.



Again the test map on the smaller sand table, the final on the main board will be atleast twice this size, but it shows how faithfully you can recreate the topography (though I messed the river up a bit). I'll post an update as things develop, we've just put in another order of about 500 extra figures just yesterday, also hoping to add the new extensions before we start. I've also almost finished scratch building most of the town I'll show those as part of an extra update later.



I build my first Sand table in the late 70's in my room, my dad stopped me from making it any larger soon most of my mates had one, they were always a massive success and I know though most of them are now in their 50's  they continue to use them but they're mainly housed in garages and outbuildings, I was always surprised that they didn't become even more popular, guess it's the weight in upstairs rooms but I have used some very large ones in attics and bedrooms.

Guess it's thanks to Pendragon and their range of great little figures that we are able to plan a wargame on this scale and with this much scope, we expect this won't be a single battle wargame.

Anyway I'll post back with updates on this Campaign.

@WeeWars - He was a miserable old bugger but he use to take me fishing at the college before the IRA forced it's closer to the public ofc he talked about war stuff and I was very young, his job meant that we lived in the area which was great for finding fellow wargamers (North Farnborough Wargames club) and reenactors some of who I still know today. He was a bit like the granddad in only fools and horses, only he was a marine but every ship he ever went on was sunk by the Germans, including the Hood, he also survived the sinking of the Royal Oak at Scarpa Flow, his body contained a lot of Italian shrapnel which gave him jip guess that's what made him miserable.

Quote from: Biffa on 11 September 2013, 10:02:20 AM
@WeeWars - He was a miserable old bugger but he use to take me fishing at the college before the IRA forced it's closer to the public ofc he talked about war stuff and I was very young, his job meant that we lived in the area which was great for finding fellow wargamers (North Farnborough Wargames club) and reenactors some of who I still know today. He was a bit like the granddad in only fools and horses, only he was a marine but every ship he ever went on was sunk by the Germans, including the Hood, he also survived the sinking of the Royal Oak at Scarpa Flow, his body contained a lot of Italian shrapnel which gave him jip guess that's what made him miserable.

Sounds like quite a life! He lived some real history.