As promised Angus tore himself away from the snow at Glenshee to drop off his dry slope bashing board for a bit of base restoration. I’ve never actually had a session at Garthdee but it seems to involve a lot of attacking each others’ boards with hand held grinders:
The board was also fairly concave so it took a fair base of base planing to get it flat. This takes off some of the more superficial gouges…
…but still leaves the big ones to deal with. Experience has shown that it 
takes two or even three passes of P-texing & scraping to get a really mashed base clean and there really isn’t any way to short cut the fill & scrape process.
Here is the board smothered in clear & colourless P-tex the first time:
And the second pass, which included all the metal-grip down along the rather gappy edges:
However eventually it is ready for structuring with the trusty SkiVisions tools, tidying up the edges (which is easy as they were last done a few weeks ago by Angus himself) then some Zoom Universal wax to keep it looking nice and shiny until the next robot wars session at the dry slope.