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Setup complete. Plating against chatgpt now and it made some horrific mistakes. My Italian navy destroyed the British Mediterranean fleet in turn 1 😂
Hello
Have a quick question. I am starting to do flight stands and magnetics. The 1/16" X 1/32" seems to be good for all the fighters. But on the bombers doesn’t seem to be strong enough. Just wondering what magnet size do most people use? I am drilling them in to the bomber and thinking trying a 2mmX1mm seems 3mmX1mm are to big.
@Wolz9122 I used 3x1mm for all of my planes and a 3x2 on all of the flight stands. I didn’t find them too big.
We use magnetic tape on both Aircraft Carriers, Air units and Fligth stands.
See more pictures at the House Rules section - look for Global 1940 & 1943 Expansions Game Reports.

Awesome thank you for the advice. On all your stuff is it all waterslide decals or paint?
Hi Wolz,
It is a combination of hand painting, decals and paper-printed symbols (like the Waffen-SS symbols).
All units are hand painted - then decals are added - and finally ecerything is sprayed with matt varnish.
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On my flight stand I went the acrylic clear route on them. Came across this site. https://shop.zlazr.com/collections/acrylic-circles The have a lot of different sizes. Order a bunch of them and reasonably cheap.
Started painting already some original version, and still need a matt finish on them. Going to test some stuff out before painting pieces that i ordered from Historical board gaming.
@The-Captain
Also drilled magnets into the carrier. Was able to fill 3 of them in there. Used some Vallejo plastic putty to fill the bottom and painted. Happy how that turned out.
That looks awesome.
I see that you still use the A&A Classic units…
It’s great that you share this with us - we appreciate it.
@The-Captain When do people usually do magnets before or after painting and finish?
Magnetic tape is attached to the Aircraft Carriers flight deck before painting.
Magnetic tape is attached underneath Air units after painting.
You can see this at the pictures I attached above earlier.