Terrain For The Battle of Leipzig; Part 1

 At some point next year, possibly as early as March but potentially as late as August, our group will putting on the Battle of Leipzig over a weekend. For this event we will be making use of some of the terrain panels from our Wagram game as well as a few new panels on which the White Elster will be modelled. 

 I am basing the panels mostly on the table layout from the Napoleon's Battles scenario book:

We have made some minor changes including trimming off areas where there is little action, resulting in an irregular table. The red lines indicate the shape of the playing surface; the green dotted lines show the panels:

The river sections will require 5 new 2' by 4' panels and one 2' by 2' panel. To fit in with the other panels I made frames out of 1"x4 ":

7 mm MDF and 1" foam followed:

Using a hot wire foam cutter I sculpted in the river bed. I got a little deep in a few places so I had to backfill in some spots with Drydex spackling:

This weekend I will start applying sanded grout top the panels.