Jael here.
For a long time I was keen to build a table I could use for casual games at home. Over the past few months I had been slowly building various pieces of terrain with view to having a modular board which would pack away into a cupboard when not in use, but still look more convincing than a green cloth over the dining room table.
So as soon as I was able, I headed down to the local hardware shop and acquired three 2x4 foot 3mm MDF boards, some high-density extruded foam, a very large bottle of PVA glue and various other odds and ends required to complete the project.
I started out by placing some buildings and scatter terrain on the bare boards to get an idea of the scale and to begin marking out roads. As it turned out, the river sections were an almost exact fit to stretch across the board, so I decided (particularly as they were getting damaged in storage) to embed them into the board itself. I decided not to do this with the railway sections as I wanted the board to be useful for games in pre-industrial/fantasy settings as well.
