MDF is great to work with, as you don't need to worry about the wood grain, and so can cut it in any direction as shape required. Try not to get too much of the dust into your face though when working with it, as it creates a particularly fine dust.
The two sheets of wood I bought were relatively large 2' x 4' boards, and getting a straight and consistent cut with a hand-saw would be very difficult. The solution to this was to clamp the two sheets together, and cut through both at the same time with a circular saw. All four halves were then clamped together in a big sandwich, and the slightly irregular edges cut back. This ensured that the four 2' x 2' halves were all the same size. One of the squares was then set aside, and the remaining three squares cut in half to create the six smaller boards.
We'll be obscuring some of the roads and livening up the larger areas of the board with a couple of well placed craters. After a little discussion about size and dimensions, we're going to make them of a size that equates roughly to that of a Space Marine drop pod hitting the ground. The reason being that this is a reformed Imperial world and you'd expect those power armoured pansies to be on the frontline of bringing about compliance, plus Eldar are a little more graceful and my Orks haven't a clue how they arrived there.
Just thought I’d write a little page about my current computer build.
The first thing everyone forgets when they dig out their old Windows 95 CD-ROM is that it is not bootable! All the wonderfultm web-guides out there happily tell you to go out and create a new boot-disk, but of course who has floppy-drives these days? Fear not, here's the way...
