[Global 1940] The Big Project

@john-payne
Planning the board out was a real tricky task as I was changing the dimensions of the original map but not in a perfect upscaled ration.
I printed out sections of the original in a grid format to help me know which areas to lengthen or territories that I wished to increase the size of.

@john-payne
Here is the fully drawn out map.
I then took it to my brother who is a dab hand with an electric saw and he cut out all the relevant areas.

@john-payne All the pieces were then glued down with wood glue and sealed around the edges.

@john-payne South America.

I used acrylic paints and based the colour scheme on satellite images of the earth.

I wanted the board the have a 3-D effect so using Polyfilla I started to add mountain ranges. I think they look great and I am really please with them.

@john-payne The next images is of all the main land masses with an initial lick of paint.

@john-payne Next was starting to add the depth and detail

@john-payne IT was a right pain in the arse after this because I had to re-draw all the territories.

The next photos are a bit of a big jump.

Once I’d added all the territories and little islands, I then made all the territory names on cardboard and glued them down. I had to make all the roundels and thanks to my wife these have generally come out great. She’s a methodical woman and she used a whole punch (measured the distance it went into the paper) to get most of them punched out great.
The roundels are stuck onto small circles of punched out magnetic paper and I have stuck magnets onto all the game roundels. So when a territory is conquered they go on sweet.

The sea lanes are not completed yet and I’ll reveal more about them as I go along.

You will notice along the bottom of the board a large tray area. This will be used for the Battlegroup cards and few other little things but I’ll share more about that later.

Close up of the African theatre

Close up of the African Theatre

@john-payne The Americas

@john-payne The Pacific. My favourite part of the board. I made the island slightly bigger so you can actually fit a few units on them.

@john-payne We managed to squeeze in a game between Christmas and New Year and to test the changes I had made.

As you can see from the images a few territories now have a points value. This took a lot of thought and calculations by me and the eldest lad but the game was really balanced.

I have increased the income of Ital (had to compensate other areas) as we sometimes play with 6/7 people and we wanted to make Italy more appealing to play as. It’s worked really well.

I will upload photos of the board during the game and also as I work on the oceans etc. I have to do a test with the epoxy resin first.

Your thoughts would be appreciated

Thanks
John

@aaron_the_warmonger Thanks Aaron that is appreciated.

@All-Encompassing-Goose thank you very much. not be on for a while and had to put off finishing the project for while