Building the battle for Rikal IV Board

I've decided to build at totally new board for my final battle on Rikal IV

The first thing I did was buy 2 8x4 2 inch thick insulation from home depot at around 15$ a sheet.. Then I had it cut into 8 2x4s so it was easier to carry home and modify

After that I measured all pieces of my terrain that I intended to use and made a scale model of the board in photo shop which helped me design and plan it..

Once the terrain was placed I drew the roads and the sludge river on the map

You will have to click the thumbnails to see the road outlines!

It took a few hours of fooling around to get everything just right and after that I started to mark the boards and cut the river..

This is the bottom left corner where the first bridge is located.. Drawing the roads was easy since my model in photo shop was perfect scale at 1 inch = 1 foot


Next I went to the bottom mid left which has the majority of the sludge river and the rest of the road complex that surrounds the research center


Top left was next which let me finish up the other side of the bridge and start the roads where the invading orks will start


and finally I did Top mid left which was just a continuation of the starting ork ruins


I'll start working on the other 4 pieces soon, but Top and bottom right are basically flat as they are for the BA base and the power station so really only 2 more sections to do