For those Australians among you who don't yet know, Bunnings now sells foam.
Maybe I should phrase it in a different way ... BUNNINGS NOW SELLS FOAM WOOOHOOOO, HAVE A PARTY LETS ALL CELEBRATE (man in white coat administers anesthetics, carries crazy loon away)
Here's a pic
Much dancing later I got to work cutting these boards of wonder into usable squares. A word of warning, the sheets are NOT 1200 x 600 mm, there is obviously some shrinking in the sheet as it is manufactured, it is about 4mm smaller in each direction.
I have had a plan for a normandy board hanging around for a while, concieved in the midst of a set of exams, I have decided to use the foam to build it.
Now, my plan involved a couple of hills, and my wallet said that I was only able to buy enough foam for a base layer. Luckily, as shown below, the foam was quite deep (despite advertising, and having a slot for, 30mm thickness sheets, I was only able to get 50mm sheets. This is way deeper than you need...
Instead I decided to cut off a layer about 20mm from the top, the hills being the bits not sawn off:
Here you can also see my preprepared hill gradient, this is to ensure the board mach up when I stick them together.
And here, the first board taking shape:
I then proceded to stab myself, and decided to call it a day, will post more progress later.
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