So, here I sit with half a page to fill! I've already filled my editorial with dribble so that's out. Um What else do I know well besides dribble? When I first started wargaming and didn't know anyone else in the hobby, I thought of using ceiling tiles - the one-foot square ones - for terrain on my tabletop. It seemed as though they would be perfect because they are built to "join together" and I assumed they would stay fairly flat over time. I never gave it a try but I still think of this possibility from time to time, especially when I am shopping in some large home improvement store. I've seen them in larger sizes - say, two by four feet, even larger. The floor tiles also seem to hold some promise in this area and they are sturdier, though they might not have the capability to "lock" together as ceiling tile does. I would think any type of "tile" would store reasonably well unless you constructed some fairly large hill sections. Rivers and roads could be arranged in a geomorphic fashion and you could actually just place your hills upon the tile sections. Actually, of all the tabletop terrain systems I've seen over the years, I am most satisfied with my current method of purchasing indoor-outdoor carpeting in six-foot by twelve or eighteen foot lengths and using this as my table base. I have several different types and most like the one I bought many years ago because of the colors - sort of a lighter green with black and yellow flecks in it. I haven't been able to find anything that matches exactly. I did buy several 6'X 12' sections from MENARDS at a very reasonable price and use them to expand my table. After searching for roads for a long time, I've given up and just use plain old masking tape. Looks good to me especially after running several shades of brown color crayons over it. I would, however, like to take another look at SCENIC TERRAIN's road system. I have two different types of rivers, Andrew Doyle's excellent river sections and the ones made by TCS; both are excellent. If I am using the TCS river sections, which are smaller, I use double-sided tape to hold the sections end to end and also to keep them where I set on the tabletop. Back to MWAN # 125 Table of Contents Back to MWAN List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 2003 Hal Thinglum This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com