A Portable Wargame mini-campaign board

One of the best wargame purchases I have ever made was to buy Hexon II hexagonal terrain boards. I bought enough to easily cover my extended wargame table.
When space in my toy/wargame room became tight and it was difficult to extend my tables, I looked around for some way that I could wargame on a much smaller terrain board but still use my Hexon II terrain board. In the end, I opted to buy a 3' x 2' (90mm x 60mm) magnetic white board which - after a small amount of modification - could accommodate a 6 x 8 hex grid of Hexon II terrain boards.
This video explains how I created my Portable Wargame mini-campaign board and features some of the wargames I have fought using it.

[@wallisthescot6544]

Just a wee word to tell you that although I am a very old solo Wargamer who started as a child and watched Callan and read Featherstone for information and inspiration. Your continued determination to overcome your health issues and your wonderful passion and creativity for wargaming is an inspiration for me and my wargaming world. Many thanks bro. 😊

[@Wargaming_Miscellany]

You and I sound as if we are both from that generation that are sometimes referred to as the post-war baby boomers. I don't know about you, but the monthly visits to the local model shop, clutching my pocket money in my hand, always led to some new addition to my wargaming armies, navies, and air forces. Airfix kits and figures were two shillings each and if I was lucky (and had been careful with my cash), I might acquire a couple when I paid my visit to the model shop. My health was good until 2020, and since then I;ve had cancer twice (colorectal and prostate) and now I have neuropathy. Wargaming has help to keep me sane, and has made me determined to get well enough to get back upstairs to my toy/wargames room again. All the best ... and enjoy your wargaming!

[@johnscarr70]

Stingy Yorkshireman tip of the day. I cannibalise unwanted flat pack furniture - wardrobes are ideal with oceans of hardbound, doors and MDF backs, tops and bases can be resized to create tables of all sizes. Terrific looking tables.

[@Wargaming_Miscellany]

@@johnscarr70 I subscribe to a KZbin channel entitled ‘Budget Model Railways’. Its creator regularly uses second-hand shelves and hollow doors (and even laminated corrugated cardboard and rigid cardboard boxes) as baseboards for his layouts. He buys them very cheaply from his local rubbish tip (civic recycling centre) shop. Stingy is the new creative recycling!

[@aramisortsbottcher8201]

Really has inspired me and brought back memory of an forgotton project I had, maybe I'll look at it again. Thanks :)

[@Wargaming_Miscellany]

I will be very pleased if I have encouraged you to revisit a moribund project and get some enjoyment from it.

[@iandury9603]

Bob - finally got round to watching this, another great video. You may be interested to know that I am in the progress of repainting all of that Heroscape terrain you kindly sent me to create a modular campaign board for the North-West Frontier - I will send you some pictures when it is completed

[@Wargaming_Miscellany]

I am very pleased to read that you enjoyed this tribute to Eric Knowles. I am also very pleased to see that you are going to use that Heroscape terrain so creatively and I look forward to seeing what the end result looks like.

[@mikkoleinonen9846]

The 60cm x 90cm notice board is my go to board nowdays. I bought one with cork layer on both sides, and I also just glued green felt on other side, and plain burlap canvas on the other side for desert scenarios. I don't like having fixed grid on my boards, but now I can just use thumb tacks to mark out the grids if needed. Great video!

[@Wargaming_Miscellany]

Cheers! I looked at buying a cork-covered board but all the ones I saw only had cardboard backing. As I wanted something more substantial, I opted for the magnetic whiteboard. Covering your board with green felt and burlap makes a lot of sense, as does using thumbtacks to show the corners of grid areas.

[@user-ot6vv5fz4d]

Another very informative video, Bob. Seeing your Hexon II on the whiteboard will, I'm sure, inspire many viewers to make something similar for themselves. Arthur

[@Wargaming_Miscellany]

Cheers! Making this video has made me realise just how useful the mini-campaign board is ... and regretting that I put it and all my Hexon II in storage before I broke my leg! If I hadn't, I might be able to use both whilst I remain immobile.

[@Khornishman]

Bob, I have four 2'x2' plywood boards that I am going to use for my own PWG campaign games. I am looking to mount them or frame them, as they have 3" squares laser etched into each. I was considering painting them, but now I think I will stain them and apply a varnish, to protect them from water and scuffing. I just recently purchased 3" square bases from Litko, some with 60mm square cut outs and some others with a 30mmx60mm cut out. This way, I can use these for various terrain that can be removed so that a figure base may be set in it. If I can ever manage to rearrange my house, in the near future, I'll work up what I am thinking of and send you some images. There's a wide variety of options and it only takes inspiration and imagination to strick for us gamers to take our creativity to the next level.

[@Wargaming_Miscellany]

Wow! That sounds like a very interesting project and I hope that you will soon be fighting battles over your new terrain boards. 3"/75mm squares are a nice size for terrain squares and are useable for most figures sizes. Staining your surfaces will allow the grain of the wood to show through and will mean that you will end up with an effect that is similar to that on Archduke Piccolo's hexed terrain board (see archdukepiccolo.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-portable-white-mountain-30yw-battle.html). I look forward to seeing how your terrain looks when it is finished.