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So I am lucky enough for my girlfriend to give me a games room all to myself. So I am making the ultimate leap and building a modular battle table primarily for Warhammer Fantasy Battle. We have made some cool buildings etc already and some nice rock features.

I was thinking about making a modular river I could just lay on the table. Be great to hear thoughts on ho people have done the rivers.

We have also got a huge board from B&Q and took advantage of their free cutting service to end up with several same size wooden boards along with some big polystyrene boards from Amazon that we are gonna stick on the top to carve hills we can swap around etc. The aim is to have a modular board we can reposition and IDEALLY have no gaps in between! I am trying to think of a way that we could almost overlap slightly. Has anyone come across this problem and what are good solutions for avoiding gaps between the modular boards? (As I said we have the wood/polystyrene boards and haven't had it happen yet but as they say in Dune, the best way to avoid a trap is to know of it's existence!)

Provided your handy work with the hill carving lines up nicely across each piece, then magnets can be a handy way of keeping the pieces locked together, alternatively could do tongue and groove joins although these may slip apart now and then.

Ok magnets sound interesting. Not tried them when it comes to gaming. I maybe some rubber underneath might help when it comes to slipping.

A good trick when making hills is to make a jig / template out of 3-6mm MDF for the profile of the hill. Using this to guide your wire on your styrene cutter will ensure that all your hill sections match up.

If you source some suitable strengthed and sized magnets (ebay seems likely) and mount them around a wooden frame stuck to the underside of each square section, at regular intervals around each side; precision will be important to reduce the risk of one tile not fitting in a certain orientation.. ruining your modularity.
Take care when fitting the magents to ensure they fit really flush and consider polarity when planning, I'm sure you can make it in such a way that the tiles will snap together in any orientation.

winterdyne wrote:
A good trick when making hills is to make a jig / template out of 3-6mm MDF for the profile of the hill. Using this to guide your wire on your styrene cutter will ensure that all your hill sections match up.

OK that is a brilliant idea cheers!


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HairySticks wrote:
If you source some suitable strengthed and sized magnets (ebay seems likely) and mount them around a wooden frame stuck to the underside of each square section, at regular intervals around each side; precision will be important to reduce the risk of one tile not fitting in a certain orientation.. ruining your modularity.
Take care when fitting the magents to ensure they fit really flush and consider polarity when planning, I'm sure you can make it in such a way that the tiles will snap together in any orientation.

OK great, I think I will go on ebay then to check out magnets!