The Gamers Grounds

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mainly gw fantasy and 40k 1st edition thru 6th, skirmish, bloodbowl, star fleet battles, malifaux, battletech and as in the older editions. board games for in store play, like, axis and allies, a and a europe, risk, stratego, etc and d and d 1st/2nd

now compare this with the "low quality" ones they printed or maybe "default quality", crosswalks actually had the lines and every "high quality" road either had no center lines or maybe one or two that were not too messed up. even with wood puttying and then priming and painting, when you look closely, you can still see these print lines and honestly its hard to create something ok out of these but i bought alot of them so trying to make the most out of the horked up mess of the "high quality" prints
the light "blackening" is because they are slowly being wood puttied and utility knived to smooth out all the "horked up" parts from "high quality" and the blackening is from flat black spray paint that spills over as i prime other items
as i see it, a tabletop is a painters canvas for tabletop gaming its basically blank and then you as colors and texture to create the overall product i understand the simple and practical use of printed up mats for tabletop. its already there but its static and so that is the only form gamers can use and if that isnt what is wanted then alot of effort and terrain is then used to cover over and create the desired tabletop battlefield seems rather silly and pointless yes creating, as in painting, takes time and abit of effort but you get what you want. without having to cover over a printed game mat also its not printed 2d, its actual terrain that is solid and actually there
bought for to make 3 towers of 5 levels and ladders for first, second and third levels and then got enough walkways for normal one space distance and then modified single walkways to make both double and triple walkways. although neither double or triple has game play wear and tear so its still to be determined how they hold up
all told the store has these maps that go from chaos dwarfs to lustria and nagaroth to khemri to chaos lands at current im working on the the very tip part of khemri desert all maps are as seen color coded and laminated so grease pencils will be used on them for territory expansion and such the first time it was done, back at the ending of my active duty time. had 6 people doing it. although by the time i ended up leaving the area, none of the people had got into any conflicts with anyone else since they all started too far from each other but i did and others not active players, played various "incursions" from anywhere from skaven to orcs to orcs and goblins to goblins to dwarfs to dark elfs to undead and vampire counts in scale, the entire map is abit over 12 feet high and about 14 feet across
one of each type and using wood putty you can lessen the "ruined" effects or added on more "ruined" effects also got alot of city blocks squares from the same designer and had them 3d printed, although it seems the printing went sideways and not of great quality but the mess ups are alterable but i didnt spent money to then have to alter to make them work but it is what it is those will be done and pics taken at a later date i did also order more, alot of of each of these roads but they are also not great quality so been trying different ways to make them more "ruined" but in different ways so they hopefully blend in well together when placed on the tabletop