I've decided to start by posting about a project I completed last winter, which was to build myself a new gaming table; it was inspired by a walk across the Welsh countryside with the kids on a rare sunny day! Here are a couple of photos that I took and used as references/inspiration...
I knew that I wanted to build some open fields with woods/forest.
This muddy track looked great and I knew would be a great feature to recreate on the tabletop.
I started off by building a frame out of some planks of wood that I found in the garage. We moved into our new house just over a year ago and the previous owner left a big pile of wood, so I wasn't short on choice. I also cleared out the shed and claimed it as my new wargaming room! Maybe it should be described as a summer house, rather than a shed, because it is a decent size. I was able to build the table to be 8' by 6' with space to walk around three table edges.
Another source of inspiration for the project came about by a bit of luck: I "rescued" several sheets of insulation foam from a skip outside work. I think it came from a company that installed roofs on industrial buildings. The foam sheets are about 4 inches thick and conveniently locked together, so with a few more bits of wood underneath to brace it, it formed a great base to start building on (and gouging out). Here's a shot of the table with the bare insulation sheets - you can see the joins still and where I started filling them with a tub of wall filler from B&Q. You can also see some craters and ditches that I gouged into the foam to create some "texture" for my battlefield.
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