Ive been doing a lot of snow bases and terrain lately, and I've always wanted a gaming table. We recently got a new dining room table and I immediately saw the solution to my lack of gaming table problem. Now I have drying in my garage, a 6' x 4' snow field.
You will need:
A table. just shy of 6' x 4', unless you happen to be lucky enough to find one exactly these dimensions (hit craigs list or free-cycle).
3 2' x 4' x 3/4" pieces of hardboard/particleboard
A drill/driver
a handfule of 1 1/2" Screws (i used self tapping screws, I highly reccomend this so you don't have to drill pilot holes
1 gallon Rustoleum deck/concrete restore 10x
1 1/8" nap roller
My table was split for a leaf, which made finding the center of the table really easy. mark the center of one of the boards and align it with the center of the table, and pop some screws in the corners, in my case 7" in from the short edge of the board and 1" in from the long edge.
after the center board is in place slap the other two beside it, lining up the corners and screm them in. again making sure to hit the table underneath.
Painting. I started with the paint pan, but this was REALLY slow going. the rustoleum is super thick and I wasn't getting very good coverage. so I started just pouring the paint directly onto the surface and pushing it around. much better
painting the whole thing only took about 20 minutes, making sure to get good random patterns and good coverage (no brown showing through)
and a close up of the texture.
When its dry it should have a nice matte finish. The sample in the store was gritty, but not so abrasive that it will grind the paint off of a model should one fall over or get dropped.
Anyway, this was pretty simple, but I hope you found it useful. Now go find a table and get started.
Iamian