Tricol, Building better worlds (I hope)

I created the Tricol system for a couple of different reasons & one of them was for modelling terrain, now this is helped a little by the fact the I'm us it to play a game called Pulp Alley in, as the game is played on a 3x3 table, you could maybe be make it a 4x4 if you 4 or so players.

Somewhere in Tricol

Now we've played out a couple of games & I've had some nice comment on my terrain both on this blog & on the Pulp Alley forums (thank you) but over all while I was happy with the terrain I wasn't quite happy with the table it was set up on, but I'd dragged my feet getting this thing up & running & felt I needed to start playing some games to get the ball rolling.

As I've said I was not really happy with the table or ground or what ever you should call it in those games, but that's a problem I've found in a lot of the games I played over the years, I think the hard part is getting the terrain to blend in with the ground it's set down on, just call me fussy lol.

In the picture above this is not a problem unlike in some below, so in this post I'm going to explain to you what I've done to fix it & how I'll get over other such problems going forward.

Clicking on the pictures will enable you to see them in a bigger size.

The good old green grass gaming mat where most games are played out on

Just doesn't look right does it ?

Even when you use terrain with bases it's very hard to blend it in right

The F.A.T mat from FLG these are love & we a good few of these in the DDG thanks to Mike T

But even these suffer when you put down terrain with bases on them

A 3x3 gaming table I made using cork tiles, cost of gaming table about 36 euro including paint & dip

A piece of terrain I made sitting on it as you can see it blends in every well

Unless you go for a modular table this is as good as it gets & it good enough for me.

Been made up of 12x12 tiles means that storage is not a big problem  

But it also has another advantage as you can see in the picture the board has changed a bit

If you want to invest a bit more time & money this board can very easily be changed around

As this side shot shows the board is rising, how this is done is by making a tile with a couple of layers of tiles on it & then use other tiles to raise up the ones behind it

For those that's interested this is how the gaming board is made

I covered the cork tile in per mixed tiling grout 

Next create an uneven surface 

You finished board should be something like this, then just paint as you want, I used an army painter cream coloured spray & army painter dark shade dip which I painted on

Well that's it as always my thanks for dropping in.