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Your ideas sound great. Plenty of guys will chime in with ideas and opinions.
Good luck !
@turfyrocket2829 Good action here. yea definitely show us what you end up with
Definitely interested in seeing what you come up with!
-Midnight_Reaper
Update #1:
After much consideration between the Sired Money (because it looks amazing) and IPC chips I think for play reasons the weight of the chips is the best route. I am looking into custom poker chips manufacturers since the ones online are sold out. While doing this I might try and darken the shades slightly and redesign the faces to better match the original money from Classic.
This also means I need to add a poker chip rack. I’m thinking something simple like the plastic table inset ones from a casino but crafted out of wood.
Originally I wanted to make all the parts by hand as I have the skills to do so however I realized that with a 2 year old and a job that’s probably not practical from a time standpoint. As such I found a local makerspace that has both a laser cutter and CNC machine! (Unfortunately this opens up my imagination a bit too much so I must focus!)
Currently I am working on contacting the space to get advice on their recommended route for manufacturing all these parts I will need while creating far too many measurements and designs!
Update #2:
So I ordered a CNC machine and a laser engraver / cutter since my local makerspace is closed. As such and since the IPC chips are sold out I’m working on making my own!
They will be made of wood, stained to the proper IPC color. Then the engraved parts will be filled with a corresponding monetary color (copper, silver, gold, etc). I’m going to try both paint and epoxy fills (and a few other ideas) before deciding on which looks best. Also I may weight them if practical. For the design as I really like to original money I’m going to have one side be the number with border and the other the internal image. For example the 5 will have the arm and hammer. I’m a terrible graphic artist so recreating these is proving challenging but this is what I have after about 2 hours of work.
Also I have completed the designs and measurements for the country boxes. I’ll upload them once they are less…roughly drawn. And I have the roundels designed in my mind as well, just need to see if it can be done in practicality.
Last night I completed the organization of all my A&A Classic pieces and I have 1.99% game. I am missing 5 pieces from the second so working on acquiring them. I also completed removing the mold lines from all of Great Britian in prep for painting while binging Squid Game (I know I’m behind). Germany is tonight.
If anyone could point me in the direction of painting these I would appreciate it. Especially 2 factors. Do you recommend priming first and has anyone found the proper country colors yet?
Thank you!
You don’t want to use the Poker chips for money ? Granted they have no numbers on them but possible to put them on.
I use
White 1 icp
Green 3 icps
Red 5 icps
Blue 10 icps
Black 20 icps
Can get a case set with 5 colors in them like any Shopko or Walmart or maybe by you some king of store…
But you probably looking for more fancy money chips ?
@general-6-stars
I would love to use real ceramic chips. However I don’t want the colored pips on the edge and I don’t want the face to have the typical small recessed center.
I looked for flat chips I could put vinyl stickers on, but could only find white plastic ones.
A typical game upgrade I would absolutely go the route you described. Since this is a gift and my “Ultimate” version I don’t think that will fit the theme unfortunately.
I’m assuming you don’t want to use these poker chips I have in pic. Double click on
Pic . OK Cool
@general-6-stars
So I actually love that whole setup you have. It looks fantastic!
Bun unfortunately no, that would be the simplest solution for sure but my mind won’t let me use that with this project as it wouldn’t “match” the whole theme.
Right. Just throwin ideas. You’ll come up with something.
Maybe try googling or e bay custom poker chips.
Ya a lot of companies that can make wooden chips to your liking. Think I’m gonna get my chips custom made with GF logo with amount maybe. Good Luck
@turfyrocket2829 said in Ultimate Classic Version Build:
If anyone could point me in the direction of painting these I would appreciate it. Especially 2 factors. Do you recommend priming first and has anyone found the proper country colors yet?
Idk if this is helpful but there was some recent discussion on painting here:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/37964/painted-pieces-take-a-look?_=1644011663072
So this update came way later than expected so apologies for that. Life has a way of getting ahead of me!
Anyway after essentially teaching myself the hard way how to do “graphic design”…and by that I mean make matching measured boxes with text… as well as getting a CNC machine and learning it. I have finally been able to turn all my sketches into actual digital work to start carving.
This is the base of the country boxes I’m working on. Still torn on wood choice but I think I’ll wind up going with pine in the end or something else with a light color. I’ll be digitizing the covers tomorrow!
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@turfyrocket2829 said in Ultimate Classic Version Build:
Still torn on wood choice but I think I’ll wind up going with pine in the end or something else with a light color.
Yellow cedar would be nice but probably hard to come by. : )
@barnee Ohhh that would be nice! I also wanted to go with walnut but I’m unsure if that would be too dark. I think I might do one in walnut, one in oak and one in pine. See which looks the best and works the best with the CNC.
Update #3.5:
I have the CNC files for the country component box lids. They are 10mm thick with a 1mm engraving (potentially 2 depending on how the actual cutting looks after, you can never perfectly tell until the cutting happens it seems). I also plan on carving out 5mm depth on the inside of the lid. I would like to have the country cards slot into there but I don’t know that it will work out, but if not the extra space may be of benefit for storage.
I have 2 styles for Japan, I am leaning towards 2 and for the USSR I think I need to find a way to smooth out the hammer and sickle.
Update #4:
I should be working but am really enjoying this, so I started work on the National Production Chart as well. I want to have it in a light wood with a darker wood making a “frame” or border around all the boxes. I’m still learning and working on this so the “Detailed Pass” image isn’t correct. The boxes should have straight edges to accept the frame but it shows the numbers and words well enough.
Update #5:
Well this project has taken much longer than I originally anticipated. However on the plus side I have learned an immense amount of new skills, not the least of which being 4 different 3D Modeling programs. Here’s the “final” modeling for all the parts except the IPCs, those I will have complete today as I was finally able to get the images needed into vector format. All of the images, words, numbers etc look engraved on the images but will be laser burned in on the final project, the only exception being the country logos on the box covers. This is why some of their depths may look a bit uneven, it doesn’t matter for the tooling and I took my wins and losses where I needed to haha.
Tooling on these parts has begun and I can’t wait to have this completed as I’m so close!
(Upload rate limited here. I’ll upload the other photos in a bit)
