@LHoffman:
Personally, I like the idea of having that area all around the board for all players to use. The good thing about not having made a table yet is that you can steal the best ideas from everyone else and incorporate them into your own.
Yes, that’s the nice thing about having a discussion forum where people share the result of their customization projects: it not only motivates people to try projects of their own, it also provides lots of ideas on which to drawn (sometimes including hard-won knowledge derived from failed experiments).
I have some pictures of my table in this thread:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=32700.0
The photos which best show the side wings are titled 1 Left Table.jpg and 4 Right Table.jpg.