{"id":1948,"date":"2017-05-08T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2018-01-01T10:46:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T17:46:40","slug":"showcase-hnefatafl-tablut-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=1948","title":{"rendered":"Showcase: Hnefatafl, Tablut variant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month<\/a>, I was at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science<\/a> and was inspired by some of the ancient game pieces they had on display to make my own Hnefatafl game<\/a>.\u00a0 I posted earlier about how I was making the pieces and sourcing for the board and today I have it all completed.\u00a0 I’m beyond excited about how it all turned out and can’t wait to start playing the game.<\/p>\n

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A look back at what I had done before shows that I still needed to stain the “attacker” pieces dark and get the board in from The Merry Merchant<\/a>. With that now finished we can see the final game in all it’s glory.<\/p>\n

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To finish off the outside attacher pieces, I decided to go with a dark Espresso stain using another Polyshades 2-in-1 from MinWax<\/a>.\u00a0 I used the same technique as I did with the lighter pieces and found that I liked the light, brushed approach best.\u00a0 MinWax recommends two coats but the first coat went on with a lot of brush strokes that I didn’t like at first but as the stain set, the strokes grew soft and created this tiger eye<\/a>-like look to them and so I ended up keeping it at one coat.<\/p>\n

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These dark attacker pieces then contrast very well with the light stained defenders.<\/p>\n

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As you can see from above, the board is not just some simple burned in squares but rather, The Merry Merchant put a lot of excellent imagery into the design as well.<\/p>\n

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The designs aren’t just there to look pretty though. They help guide the player to set up the board and know where the victory positions are (the four outside corners).\u00a0 I can’t praise quality of this piece enough.<\/p>\n

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When everything is all done, the board folds and gathers into a bag to hold all the pieces.\u00a0 With everything complete, now all that is left is to play.\u00a0 Since it travels so easily, I’ll likely bring it almost anywhere.<\/p>\n

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Earlier this month, I was at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and was inspired by some of the ancient game pieces they had on display to make my own Hnefatafl game.\u00a0 I posted earlier about how I was making the pieces and sourcing for the board and today I have it all completed.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[457,440,137,441,456],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-showcase","tag-denver-museum-of-nature-and-science","tag-hnefatafl","tag-minwax","tag-tablut","tag-the-merry-merchant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3490,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions\/3490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}