HEX A.R.T. Message Board

May 31, 2008
It has been 6 months since I shipped the first HEX A.R.T. boards out to get the second order from this web site. The second customer placed an order for 3 sets of boards! I look forward to getting them shipped out on Monday.

Many activities have transpired since I last wrote here. Almost by accident while working on another project, I discovered some properties of a new material that will make it economical and easy to use for making flexible molds to create copies of original 3D art out of plaster. What is extremely interesting about this new material is that it can be melted again in a microwave and used over again multiple times to make new flexible molds. As long as it's kept refrigerated in a sealed container, it will last a long time.

Small original game board characters and models can be made with sculpey clay and baked so they hold their shape. If the item is to be replicated only once or twice, the sculpey clay can be left un-baked or oil based clay can be used to create the molds so permanent models out of plaster can be created. Since plaster can be painted and finished in countless ways, this makes for an extremely economical way to make your own original 3D game board pieces. This new material is being called Xeno Poly™ and should be posted on the web shortly for sale. Many other things can be done with the material as well, and I will be exploring what else can be done with it and posting it to the new web site dedicated to the new molding material.

November 19, 2007
The first game boards were sold and are shipping out on November 20, 07. It took almost exactly 3 months to make the first sale from our site here and that is kind of exciting knowing the competition we face on the web. Not from other game boards like this one, because as far as I know, there aren't any, but from the shear fact that there are now billions of pages published to the web now and a very large amount of game web sites out there.

My first customer is receiving two sets of boards just for being the first to make an order.

I have just updated the site with a couple new photos, one on the home page, and now a photo of the packaged game on the order page. Not much I know, but a start. I have been incredibly busy for some time now, but want to spend some more time soon with this site and more things related to add here.

I am trying to figure out how to set up a referral system so that for every 6 people that make a purchase of playing boards that get referred by someone, they get a free set of boards or choice of other products from the site. (Just have to stick with the HEX thing :-) I am all for rewarding those folks that help spread the word about this new game system.

August 18, 2007
With a personal interest in RPG and War games as part of having fun building games and game boards of all kinds, I was finally able to take time out of my busy schedule and finish this long awaited project of making the HEX A.R.T. master molds to produce the HEX A.R.T. game board system.

I have been puttering around with artwork for some time now and some of it is posted on this site in the Free Game Graphics area.

As an inventor and plastic sheet former, it was exciting to see a concept come out like this that works as well as it does. Using the KISS principle, making the game boards so they can be put together with nothing more than clear tape and making it easy to turn any map or other artwork into an instant game board, the concept was instant gratification for me as the first parts out of my machine as soon as they were trimmed out of the sheets worked perfectly.

This is just the first of several board systems like this one that will be available on this site. I already have the drawings done for more designs to cover other types of game requirements needed by players.