Saving Alice's Xmas presents !

This little idea has carried on   whilst painting figures etc.

How to do the base table, could have done down the mat idea, but that was pricey, likewise getting more Hexon and painting it white. Some of the xmas snow material or just a white tablecoth had  crossed mind  but thought would look crap   plus could get pulled mid game.

The smaller of my games tables , was the survivors of 2 tables  my father made for my old flat, fo some reason 3ft by 3ft 9 approx ( even he couldn’t remember why the odd size,  probably came to the size of some odd boards he had in the garage.

He also  I think out of habit varnished them. But over years that has been marked etc, so re covering the surface had always been a plan.

Now blue sea effect had been the original idea  but with this project thought white.

I could have just painted it white, but remembered an old project fir sea boards , using self adhesive floor tiles , which as they needed to be stored, gave them strength by sticking them on the Same size Cork tiles. This had worked well  but they eventually split as the tiles became brittle with age.

As they were to be stuck straight on table, no need for Cork backing.

In the old days I would have just gone round the various DIY stores in town for the suitable items . But they have gone the way of the dodo, to a handful of mega stores on town outskirts  so I resorted to Amazon. I Initially only brought one pack of 10 x 1ft or 30cm square , at £14.99.  Not totally sure if that would be enough, plus didn’t want to have a big pile of tiles if it didn’t work.

Anyway this is what turned up, I quite liked the idea of the marble effect .

I pre played them out and this is were I remembered the odd table size. So the last tile was cut down to 9″ , meaning I need 2 more!!

On bright side I can make terrain features out if the unused from the just ordered 2nd pack.

Getting the pattern of the marble effect to flow was easier than thought, apart from one, though sticky they do allow for re positioning and were pliable enough to go over odd indentations and marks on table.