Although looking at the pic of the Gravesend game, I do wonder why groups bother to take such an uninspired table to a showcase wargames event...
I guess for some people the visual / asthetic qualities will always be secondary to pure game itself...
To be fair, that was not the most 'uninspired' table there.
There was a naval game which consisted of some ships on what appeared to be two cotton sheets.
(Complete with obvious seam in the centre of the table).
It may well have been a great game to play, I do not know, but visually it was certainly 'uninspiring'....
As yar68 has demonstrated, though, there was still plenty of eye candy.