Do you know DTROY?

Hey everyone,
I finished customizing my copy of AA50 and wanted to share what I’ve done.

Custom painted pieces, I painted every nation to unify each nations color scheme as the OOB pieces have a lot of color variation. I have included a picture of the different paint color/products used. The only big change was Germany from black to gray as I wanted my new oil pieces to stand out.

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Custom tracker boards and magnetic roundels. I designed and printed the labels on sticker paper, laminated and applied them to metal sheets. I modeled and printed the bases they stand in as well. The magnetic roundels are my design as well with the same method applied for the stickers.

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Oil. I modeled and printed the oil barrels and derricks myself and have been working on some house rules to include them in the game to add some strategy and more money to the board.

Roundels, I 3d printed the chips and applied the stickers. The image file is on this site somewhere and I will comment with the link, I did have to modify and convert the file a bit to make it workable but it includes the fuel and breakthrough images as well. These are all double sided and stand out much nicer on the map

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Flight stands, I made these with my own design from 3mm acrylic rods and 3mm thumb nuts. I designed a number of 3d printed jigs for cutting the rods and gluing the magnets and rods and bases together. I may be listing these for sale if I can get the process streamlined enough to make them competitive in pricing.

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Magnetic planes and carriers. I drilled and magnetized all of the planes and carriers to make them much easier to pick up. The carrier magnets are strong enough to go through one chip which is great.

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Custom storage trays. I designed and printed trays for the nations (us has an extra slot for the china troops) and for the storage boxes to add better organization and more slots for storage.

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That’s all the main things I did! Please let me know if you guys have any questions about anything.

@Pvt_Griff you bet- looks awesome!!

@vodot YES! I really want a full set of actual French Sculpts not just Blue Russian Sculpts.

It’s actually kinda in interesting story what happened to the carrier:

Why Béarn went there: After France’s defeat, Béarn sailed across the Atlantic carrying military aircraft (including U.S.-built planes purchased before the war) and gold from the French treasury. She stopped in Martinique rather than risk capture by the British or Germans.

What happened then: From mid-1940 to 1943, Béarn stayed in Fort-de-France harbor with her cargo. The U.S. monitored her closely, worried the gold and aircraft could be used by Axis forces. She didn’t join combat again until 1943, when she switched to the Free French side.

Has anyone ever considered designing a 3d printable battle box replacement? I’m thinking that may be a good solution that would be much more durable than the cardboard version. I’ve never designed anything for printing so not sure how difficult it would be.

@Pvt_Griff Thank you

Here are the modules from the “G40 Lite” release that can be used with any AA50 map. They have also been posted to the first post in this thread.

Jehol (1) split off from Manchuria (3)

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“Impassible” text added below Mongolia, Switzerland, Sahara, and Himalaya, which becomes important if playable Neutrals are used.

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Playable IPC-ified Neutrals:
– Sweden (2)
– Turkey (2)
– Saudi Arabia (2)
– Spain (2)
– Afganistan (1)
– Northern South America (2)
– Peruvian Central [South America] (1)
– Argentina Chile (2)
– Angola (1)
– Mozambique (1)

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Thanks Dauvio. I appreciate it.

I know this is quite old, but I would love an SVG file of the map at a decently high quality (high enough to distinguish roundels and text). If needed, you can email it to me.