I'm trying to gift a fan made Ticket to Ride map as a Christmas gift for a friend. I've PnP'd cards before so I'm not worried about that, but I've never made a game board before.
At first I thought of looking for an old beat up copy of TtR to glue the new map onto, but the fan made map is a bizarrely large size so that won't work.
I've looked into getting the board custom made, but it'd cost nearly $100 which is too steep for me atm. I was quoted at $81 (before shipping) by a seller on Etsy, which is better but not by much.
Now I'm thinking of going to Staples, having them print the board as a poster, and laminating that. I just got off the phone with my local store and they quoted me at less than half the price as my other options so far.
Before I go through with this, I wanted to check in with any PnP pro anons here for their input. Any help would be appreciated.