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So with the release of Apocalypse around the corner, I have been thinking about making a new game table that could accommodate large games.  What I would like to do is to make about 6 2'x4' sections that I could configure a bunch of ways.  I am going to post some updates about this project on my site.  Tell me what you think.  Does anyone else have any experience with making large tables?  Advice?  Stories?

I just went through the process recently and the way i did it was very simple.  I went down to the Home Depot and bought an 8' by 4' MDF board and had the guy cut it into four 2' by 4' boards.  I also bought a pair of eight foot 2" by 4" planks.  Then I bought two adjustable saw-horses.  I thne painted one side of all the boards green for country fighting and one side grey for cityfights.  I put the two by fours across the saw-horses and then laid down the table segments for an adjustable, modular board.  You can see the results here...

zombievisions.blogspot.com/

I imagine to get a bigger table all you would need to do is get more MDF segments and a few 6 foot 2" by 4", and then lay those across the other boards.  Although that might be less steady, so it might be better to just add another pair of saw horses.  Nothing would be worse than having an apocalyptic miniature accident.  But you could probably get all the materials for around 100 dollars or so and my table is very steady.

Did you see my 2 section cityfight table? It's probably on the second page here. I have lots of table building experience, but they are fairly complex tables. I have WIPs of the building of the city table if you are interested,

I did see some of your tables Scarab, cool stuff. I like how you handled the reservoir on the urban table, its unique enough to be futuristic, but still fits into the 40k vibe.

I've built several modular tables for Baltimore GDs (club gaming),  The expense and time involved are totally dependent on how intricate and detailed you want your table (sections) to be.  For most tables, we used an MDF or plywood base with various thickness foamboard glued on (liquid nails works) for the terrain we wanted.  But before adhering the foamboard to the base, we did all the major cutting and layout of the terrain to ensure it would all fit together like we wanted.  After gluing to the bases, we then did all the terrain sculpting and texturing.