$30 WAR GAMING SETUP! | Bargain DIY Complete Battle Mat and Terrain | GAG Quick Tips Ep. 008
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- In this video we show you how to make a complete battle setup for your war games that includes a 6'x4' gaming mat and a full table of terrain for the absolutely crazy bargain price of ONLY $30! The tips in this video are especially helpful for those of us who are gaming on a budget and who are looking for good ways to make our hobby dollars go just a little bit further.
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my jaw dropped when u said u painted a bed sheet ! i gotta get on this !!!! thank u so much🙀🥲
It is a perfect way to get some pretty decent battle mats for a fraction of the cost! Here is a tutorial for the process, if you are interested: m.ua-cam.com/video/g_9SR0isCkQ/v-deo.html&pp=iAQB
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This terrain looks really great. I have to try to make some rock formations like the ones you made here. I have a bunch of leftover packing foam from various boxes I can cut up and use.
Awesome! Be sure to give me an update of the project! I will be trying a new method soon that might work even better. I will keep you all posted! 😊
simply awesome :-))) thank you. This has given me so many ideas.
Awesome! I am glad it helped! Let me know what you come up with! All the best!
Nicely done, thanks for the tips!
Stay healthy!
Awesome! I hope you are able to create something great for your gaming! Best wishes to you as well! May health and happiness meet on your battlefields! Greetings from Sweden!
Nice video . Good effective tips here .
Thanks so much! I hope you find them useful in your own gaming! And thanks for stopping by the channel! All the best to you!
Excellent video and some really good tips. I often make my own terrain to save money so I can spend it on these items I'm not skilled enough to make myself. Focused spending and a thrifty mindset go a long way in this hobby.
Excellent points! Some items are good to buy just because they are really difficult to make. But many things can be made with a little bit of time and skill. I am very thankful to have a great second hand store nearby where I can always find tons of great materials for dirt cheap that can be transformed into some pretty great terrain items. Thanks so much for the visit! All the best!
Great work!
Thanks so much! This was really a fun project to pull together! Thanks for the visit, and all the best to you!
@@GrayArmyGaming I had no idea you guys where Swedish, Greetings from Göteborg! 😊👍
@@StaGusGbg Yep, we are down here in Furulund just outside of Lund getting ready for the start of the harsh Skåne winter (which means a lot of time indoors for hobbying! :) I have spent a good amount of time in Göteborg with academic work--such a fantastic city! All the best to all of you "Goa Göteborgare!"
@@GrayArmyGaming Lot's of miniature gaming going on in the Lund/Malmö region it seems. :-)
Have a great gaming autumn, guys!
@@StaGusGbg Thanks so much! Soon första advent and jul ledighet! Hopefully, there will be some good gaming going on down here in Skåne! All the best, Staffan!
Wow, the end product looks great!! I watched the snow battle mat video and it also has a good look to it.
Whats the quick version of how you did this battle mat? Brown sheet, with browns first then greens?
Exactly! I started with a brown sheet, then went to the dark browns, followed by the dark greens, and finishing off with the light greens/yellows. I tried to layer it so that the lightest parts were always those that were on the top. Hopefully that gives a bit more of a textured (even 3D) kind of feel. Thanks so much for the visit! All the best to you, and good luck in your mat making adventures!
Nice board! ☺️👍
Thanks so much! Super easy and super inexpensive! 👍😊
This map looks absolutely fantastic especially for that scale!
I bought 2 yards of a medium brown thick felt cloth to make something similar, but I just couldn't seem to commit to how to paint it (mostly because I've never tried it before).
Do you think you might make a video on how to make a battlemat similar to this? I watched your video with the winter mat you made, so I could probably muddle my way through it, but man alive this looks almost exactly what I was hoping to make! I'm not sure if I'd make any changes for the scale of Battletech (I'm trying to get a campaign going), but even if it looked just like this it would be amazing.
I even had a hex stencil made so thay I could also paint some minimalistic hex corners onto it as well, and I'm really hoping to get this campaign off the ground in the new year.
Regardless, great video, thank you!
Wow! That is a fantastic idea with the hex stencil! I could imagine a quick one-over with some spray paint to get a slight shadow of the hexes could work great! Nice! I have had a couple of other people ask me about making a video about the earthen mat featured in this video, so I think I will have to do that! I use a lot of the same techniques as with the winter mat, but with a few small changes. I will definitely throw the idea into my list of videos to get to after Christmas. Have a great time with Battletech! This mat will be perfect for you! Kindest regards!
@@GrayArmyGaming Awesome, thanks for the kind reply. I'm super interested in cheap Battletech terrain, even got my hot wire foam cutter and a whole bunch of insulation foam.
Now if I could only find the time...
@@benthomson1132 😂 Same here! Time is a precious commodity-especially when one has a family with three small kids! 🤪
Aussie reads title $30? Nice.
*hears accent in video*
Aussie: oh, so around $50-$100... 🙄
Oh, man! Terrible conversion rate, and terrible jacking of prices for you guys down south! That really stinks! At least the free stuff (rocks, pebbles, sand, styrofoam from the trash, discarded foam seat cushions) costs the same!
On a side note, I just saw a video about how Games Workshop is charging Australians something like over 500 AUD for a Space Marine statue that costs around 300 USD (still way over-priced!). How do you guys put up with such price gouging?!
Thanks for stopping by the channel! All the best to you as you try to find the cheapest options possible for your terrain construction!
@@GrayArmyGaming Honoured by the reply mate.
We call it the "Australia Tax". First, the exchange rate, then postage and import fees, add GST, and finally some rottenness that gets lumped on top of it all that I'm sure an economists can explain and Aussies just seem to accept.
Thanks for the video mate. Recently found your channel. Great content.
@@DarthPudden It's almost worth taking a week-long vacation in New York City and packing a few extra bags full of stuff on the trip home! Or would you get hit with customs fees there, too? Pretty brutal for you guys down there! Thanks so much for supporting the channel! We are having a lot of fun producing content for the gaming community. Take care!