I plan to take my destructive car racing game Rubber and Lead to Southern Front next month. I haven't run it at a convention since 2018. The one and only problem with the game, which is otherwise gaming perfection, is that the track boards I made many years age are 24" x 48" 1/4 inch MDF and both heavy and clumsy. A few years ago I bought some lighter alternatives but never did anything with them. Well, toting the game five hours to Raleigh is just the inspiration this guy needed to finish the project. Ingredients:
2020 / 2021?
3" X 3" postit notes
I sketched out track designs on the sticky notes in such a way that they'd match up in many combinations of four allowing for a polymorphic track.
In June of 2021 I found the perfect items to use for the track boards.
I sketched the track shapes on the boards in pencil, basically copying what I'd done on the postit notes. Then I let the boards age for fours years as a "project of lower priority."
After agreeing to host R&L in Raleigh, I decided it was high time I get on that track 3.0 project. Step 1 - basic green & black.
Rather unappealing for sure but you get the gist. The board with white lines across the track are "start" and "fire line" track sections.
A bit more effort and now I have boards like these
The white goo is glossy Mod Podge, ultimately resulting in these
I made two boards with fire lines because, why not? The line can be ignored easily enough if the board isn't in the #2 position. This should allow for fifty board configurations, I think. Either way, it's a bunch. They'll get their first next Sunday when I take it over to a Labor Day gaming get-together with the gang.
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