Table Tops – UK

[Whirlwind]

Beginning to plan my summer campaigns, as it were, I am looking to get some new table-tops/boards, specifically a 3’x3′ board and two 6’x4′ boards.  Where are good places to get hold of these? I don’t want tables (they are to sit on existing tables and workbenches) and most of the easy to get stuff seems to top out at 2′ wide.  Any advice?

[Mike]

I went to B&Q and got some wood cut to size.
Easy peasy.

[Steve Johnson]

As Mike has said, B&Q is the easiest place to go for custom or even standard sized boards. Wickes do similar stuff too.

[Whirlwind]

Thanks both.

[Not Connard Sage]

A word from an old railway modeller.

This may be obvious, but an unbraced 6×4 sheet of sufficient thickness not to flex or warp is going to be heavy, even if it’s poplar or maple ply rather than birch.

Obvious contrarian and passive aggressive old prat, who is taken far too seriously by some and not seriously enough by others.

[Mike Headden]

Not Connard Sage wrote:

A word from an old railway modeller. This may be obvious, but an unbraced 6×4 sheet of sufficient thickness not to flex or warp is going to be heavy, even if it’s poplar or maple ply rather than birch.

Which is why I have three 4’x2′ MDF boards rather than a 6’x4′ one. Held in place on the table by several stretchy roof rack cables and some large paper clamps. All a bit Heath Robinson but it works.

 

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[Whirlwind]

Thanks both for your tips

[McKinstry]

For what it’s worth, I used to have two 4×5 tables on casters I could spin to do 4×10 or 5×8 but now lacking a basement I use four 2×3’s and folding tables for maximum flexibility without warping issues.

The tree of Life is self pruning.

[Patrice]

With my gaming group we use 120 x 60 cm, and some 60 x 60 cm when needed by cutting them, 3 cm thick, yellow polystyrene boards from any store selling them.

(…it seems that some people are using these for home insulation or other mysterious activity unknown to wargaming, I still can’t understand why). 😉

That’s in France but you’ll probably find something similar in the UK.

http://www.argad-bzh.fr/argad/en.html
https://www.anargader.net/

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