Ride to ruin (February’s Snag a Normie Challenge)

So I didn’t want to buy a grass mat just yet because I’m not sure which one I like the look of and I hate to be rushed spending money 🙂 Many months ago a friend was clearing out his Room of Doom and gave me one of the GW grass mats. It hadn’t even been out of it’s packaging.

Ideally, I’d glue it down onto a 6×4 board but I don’t have space to store that and I don’t have an easy way of getting anything like it in time for Saturday anyway. I also wanted something that could be used at either 6×4 or 4×4. Cue a make shift gaming surface…

Let’s bring in the star of the show – cheap 2ftx2ft foam tiles. This gave the chance to change the size of the table at will. In hindsight, getting 1×1 tiles would have been a better plan though much more time consuming.

Step one – permanently attach the edging with the hot glue gun.

Step two – contact adhesive is spread over the outer edges and the middle of the tile, leaving a couple of inches around the interlocking edges.

Step three – go around with a sharp knife and cut round the interlocking edges

Step four – get the contact adhesive back and fill in the sections you didn’t do before

This is where I got to on this project. I will be going back to cover with some different tones of flock and to get a coat of watered down PVA to seal it. The foam tiles themselves, being cheap, are a bit thin and once on the table the sides that overhang did flop a bit. I think in the future I’ll get some hardboard to mount them onto or maybe just get one for putting over the table surface to lie these on.