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<blockquote data-quote="seanpecor" data-source="post: 4987326" data-attributes="member: 86145">I'd love a good fixed solution also but don't have the space to spare. So portable seemed the way to go, since I can take it where-ever our group chooses to game (which can fluctuate depending on availability).My first choice was to go with the under-the-table set up but like you I ran into projection size issues. Portability notwithstanding, I had trouble designing a solution that I was 100% happy with. One solution I did come up with was a modified pub-style table. A pub table is 42&quot; tall, and substract 12&quot; for the vertical projector height and you still have about 30&quot; which would be enough for a 43&quot; diagonal 4:3 map. Table materials would get spendy though! At that point it's almost worth just buying a used DLP rear projection TV and lying it on it's side and building a box around it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lastly, how much contrast do you lose with your setup? In my tests, I lost a bunch of lumens and contrast when reverse projecting onto a frosted piece of glass and some other materials. I wondered about gutting a junk reverse projection TV for it's screen at some point to try out that method.Sean</blockquote>

[QUOTE="seanpecor, post: 4987326, member: 86145"] I'd love a good fixed solution also but don't have the space to spare. So portable seemed the way to go, since I can take it where-ever our group chooses to game (which can fluctuate depending on availability). My first choice was to go with the under-the-table set up but like you I ran into projection size issues. Portability notwithstanding, I had trouble designing a solution that I was 100% happy with. One solution I did come up with was a modified pub-style table. A pub table is 42" tall, and substract 12" for the vertical projector height and you still have about 30" which would be enough for a 43" diagonal 4:3 map. Table materials would get spendy though! At that point it's almost worth just buying a used DLP rear projection TV and lying it on it's side and building a box around it :) Lastly, how much contrast do you lose with your setup? In my tests, I lost a bunch of lumens and contrast when reverse projecting onto a frosted piece of glass and some other materials. I wondered about gutting a junk reverse projection TV for it's screen at some point to try out that method. Sean [/QUOTE]

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