Has anyone have any idea whcih wood is the best for making a classic gameboard?

I have the terrain modeling set from GW and those are my resourses for now.

If you're talking about the base of the board...probably some 3/4" - 1" plywood should be fine.

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For basing individual terrain models, I use 3mm Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF). For gaming tables I usually use 9mm plywood or MDF, although I have gone up to 12mm on occasion, but that gets very heavy for bigger tables.

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I'm a 1st timer and have just bought a 4ft x 4ft 12mm thick MDF board, seems really solid and ive covered it in vynyl grass from woodland scenics.... is this a big enough board to start out with?

Ty for the help

For my Gaming Board I just used plywoood

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From my experience making tables for a wargames club you have many options. Dpending on what your storage and manhandling capabilities are.

If you expect to lift the board and store it on its side with no permenanat structures on it then use 9mm - 12mm MDF.

It is heavy but has a very smooth surface. If you havea 6'x4' size board in mind it will need a middle support. i.e three trestles or better place it on a smaler table underneath and allow the edges to overhang and give you the table size you need.

If you use plywood the weight will be less. But the surface will be slightly more coaurse. This is important if you are laying these boards on top of a Melamine or Formica surface table as it will become skratched. An halls that hire out don't like their tables getting scratched. (experience)

You can go for a lighter table by reducing the thickness of the sheet mataerial and adding timber or metal stiffeners to the underside.
However if you do this you limit what type of table, trestles or two couches you span your table onto.

The best result our club came up with was finding sme picnic tables of the melamine veneer type with tubular sleel fold out legs from a local budget store called the Warehouse here in NZ. we could buy 2 tables which places beside each other lengthwise gave a 6'x'4foot table. We had the option to place cloths directly or place a MDF board on top of these which were an exact dimension.

Legs wern't the best stability.


My mate uses a 6mm MDF and we place it over a coffee table with some of those rubberised mesh cup coasters to cussion it and stick it in position. It is still very easy to bump, being so light.

We priced getting a joinery shop to make trestles and table tops and it was exceedingly expensive.

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