Best Warmachine Table Ever, or Best Miniature Table Ever

Gabe and Tycho at Penny-Arcade commissioned a new Warmachine table . Modular design, with inserts, &c. Just.... just check it out.

neither, looks like best model train set table ever.


hey the crates and treasure chest in the foreground, is that hand-painted? Cuz that's some quality handiwork right there.

They might be...But they do mention they use a 3D printer. As I understand it the high end 3D printers are able to print in color, so I think it could have been done in Photoshop and then printed that way. But it all depends on the resolution of the printer.

the imperfections and blemishes of the metal is staggering if it's hand-painted. And the rope really looks like rope.

That's truly awesome.

Saw that last night after Krahulik Twittered about it and put up photos as well. Looks wonderful... Ah, if I only had the monies...

There's a whole making-of thread over at Privateer Press . Check that out too. Barney, your mind will be blown over there.

That shit is amaaaaaazing.

Any idea what a table like that costs? I would guess in the $3k range?

hotseatgames wrote: Any idea what a table like that costs?

$3500 in addition to the divorce settlement.

S.

jeb, just for fun I read the whole first page and then the LAST page and I can't figure out for the life of me how they turned that puffy pink wedges into the end result. it's so amazing.

The man-hours of painting is just nuts

That's actually what impressed me the most as well, Barney, the painting is insane for that much real estate.

There is just no reason to do that much painting except in knowing that people will recognize and appreciate that level of detail. You look at ANY wargaming table and you can INSTANTLY spot where corners were cut (and with good reason, who the hell has the time?). I've never seen a table that didn't have tons of spots where easy choices were made in order to minimize cost and effort (again, I'm not knocking those tables).

But in this, time and time again I'm just amazed at the detail. I can't spot a single thing where I think they phoned it in. Did you see the wooden planks over this gap where there are a bunch of sewage pipes underneath? That has ZERO effect on gameplay but is TOTALLY AWESOME. Or the painted destroyed skeleton in pieces?

And there's SO MUCH RUBBLE! wow.

I can understand pain-stakingly well painted minatures. It's a special thing and all. But to put these much effort into the table is just so much work.

i'm floored.



I think the ULTIMATE practical joke would be when these guys are away at PAX, you break into their house and install a REALLY elaborate Thomas the Tank Engine set through their entire table (obviously not destroying anything, it's a work of art we're talkin' aboot here). But they come back and there's this stupid childish train set running everywhere, lol.


edit: the whole thing is very Zen, no? The effort is more impressive than the result. It's like those really cool floor montages they make somewhere in Asia (Tibet?) with coloured grains of sand. It takes months and years to make the final tapestry result and then they destroy it after a week cuz it's all about the effort more than the result. This reminds me of that.