Global Gaming Table Threads and Pictures

After reading a comment by Variable elsewhere on the board (“Who else is building tables out there? I’m sure we’d all like some pics to drool over. Any more “command centers”?”), I thought it might be a good idea to have a dedicated thread which links to existing threads where members have posted pictures of their specialized A&A Global 1940 gaming tables.

I’ve collected the threads of this type which I could find, but I may have missed a few, so feel free to add other links:

Johnnymarr’s Global Gaming Table:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=18186.0
and
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=20154.0

94Canuck’s Global Gaming Table
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=20291.0

Pelanderfunk’s Global Gaming Setup
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=20365.0

I’ve also provided thread links to a couple of A&A gaming tables which aren’t Global but which are too great-looking to be excluded:

TwistedAries’s AAA Command Center Bunker
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=18426.0

Rorschach’s AA50 3-D Terrain Gaming Table
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=18619.0

This thread could also be a convenient place to post pictures of other Global gaming tables which don’t already have their own threads.  To get things started, I’ve posted below three pictures I took last weekend of my own Global setup.  The first picture shows the overall layout, which consists of four card tables (the kind with folding legs) arranged in a row, with shelving units and plastic tackle boxes underneath them to hold my collection of plastic sculpts.  The game board rests on a raised, cloth-covered rectangular base, and is covered with a sheet of acrylic.  The second picture is a close-up of the right side of the table, showing the customized roundels I’ve sandwiched in between the board and the acrylic to replace the default ones printed on the map.  The third picture is a close-up of the left side of the table, which is used to map some customized connections between the two board sections that don’t line up when they’re side-by-side.  The connections are marked with white sewing thread, which shows up clearly against the black cloth even though it’s very thin.

@shintokamikaze:

how can i get that lovely commonwealth roundel?

The file with my customized roundels is on another computer, so I’ll bring it in tomorrow and post a copy of the picture of the generic (and unofficial) Commonwealth roundel I made.

As with my other customized roundels, I pasted multiple copies of the picture into a Word document, had it laser-printed in colour at a commercial photocopy centre on full-sheet sticky-label paper, cut out the roundels one by one and stuck them on white bingo chips.  Because the white sticky paper was the same colour as the white bingo chips, I didn’t have to worry too much about the slightly jagged edges of the cut-out designs, since they’re not very visible at arm’s length.  If you have your own colour laser printer, however, a neater (and less labour-intensive) method would be to use Imperious Leader’s template for printing roundels on round Avery sticky labels.

Terrific table!  I especially like the padding all around it, complete with nice curves at the corners – it looks very professional.  Are those casino-style chips I see in one part of the picture?

@shintokamikaze:

how can i get that lovely commonwealth roundel?

Here’s the Commonwealth roundel, accompanied by the other four customized roundels I made.  The ones in this post are for Fascist Italy and for the Chinese Communist forces, and I’ll post the other two in a moment.

Here are the customized roundels I made for Vichy France and for the Free French forces.

The pictures of the five roundels didn’t all end up the same size when I made them into separate files prior to posting them, so if you copy them into a Word document for printing make sure to adjust their size on the page until they’re all the same diameter and so that they print out correctly sized as A&A roundels.

@tytyboogie:

this is my custom table…the only thing left is the custom peice of glass…didnt realize the best price i was going to get down here in florida was going to still be over 100$…lol. decided to use hinges for a bit of a storage area for the decorative wood side with the decals i made.

Very nice! It was a good idea to build dice-rolling areas into the table frame.

As far as the glass goes, it might be cheaper to use plastic (like acrylic) depending on what thickness you buy, and it would almost certainly be lighter.  Thin plastic also has the advantage that it can be rolled up for shipping, storage and moving.

New links added:

Katfishkris’s Global 1940 Table
      (Pictures located on page 2 of the thread for 94Canuck’s Global Gaming Table)
      http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=20291.15

Streifenkarl’s AARHE 118" x 60" Map Table
      (Pictures located on page 14 of the AARHE Map Files thread)
      http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=8670.msg688948#msg688948