Posts made by jluna1273

These are awesome.

Like the design; what if it had a felt base with the sides still clear?

Any plans for a global version?

Looks great, do you have plans to cover the map with glass or anything?

Wow, all your pieces look great. Lots of ideas while I continue to paint all my Global pieces.

Interesting idea. I know it does bother me at times when the fighters keep falling off the carriers. I guess if the project isn’t too time consuming or expensive, I might consider looking into it.

Amazing pieces, lots of ideas from just this one thread. You are truly talented.

@elzario:

Still unsure of if it will actually solve any issues of crowded countries, and planes on carriers is going to be an issue.  But may just do half mounted / half normal to give the option of both.

You could do all you bombers though, unless you have house rules that allow bombers to land on carriers or something.

I have been working on my pieces and did this for for flight stands: The base is a simple wooden knob from Hobby Lobby (they fit perfectly on the chips), I bought a box of 250 pin needles for $3, I crazy glued the needle to the base, finally I heated the other end on an open flame and pushed it right into the bomber. It melted right in and its very secure.

Wow, that Navy looks amazing. I haven’t started on my American fleet yet, so I may try your color scheme with a wash and see how it turns out.

@barney:

nice setup!   but painting the little star on the russian tanks is a trip

Barney, I don’t want to mislead you, the red star is a decal. I’ve been trying Flames of War decals, but I just bought 30 packs of decals from I-94 Enterprises.

@Raymond:

That’s a total beauty. Good choice of stain.

Yrs.,
R.

Thanks, my wife gets all the credit on that.

@sgtwiltan:

Nice till for the IPCs.

Thanks. It’s actually an adjustable cutlery tray made of bamboo that a found at Walmart.

LOL, okay so I started painting pieces during my breaks from the table project. I just kept finding more and more pictures on this site that motivated me to do all this. I think I came down with A&A fever, good thing I have a loving and understanding wife.

Here are a few more pics. Scanning the base and complex markers worked out well. Stuck those on the board so we don’t have to mess with those during setup. There are a few Russian infantry pieces on the right that I have started painting.

LOL, did anyone else notice the error? My son was helping place the complexes and bases. He put one in Central America instead of Central United States. It was corrected before the first game on this table.

Thanks. The other half of my garage has a heavy bag mounted and a weight set, so putting this up along the opposite side wall still gives us the middle to move around.

Yeah, I have read alot of threads and seen several files regarding enlarged map files, but I just didn’t find one that I liked. Since I limited myself to the dimensions of a sheet of plywood, I just went with the OOB board. As I was trying to finalize a layout, it ultimately seemed like the right size map anyway and I just went with it.

After seeing all the awesome tables and painted pieces, I was absolutely inspired to make one of my own. Once my wife saw how much space was consumed on the dining room table, I had her full support, lol.

This was my first woodworking project of any kind, and I am very pleased with it. I am gathering a small group of players, and a few helped with ideas on the layout.

Its a basic sheet of plywood bolted down to a 6 foot folding table. I used 1x2 inch pieces to do the trimming.  I rounded off all the edges, sanded it down and gave it a nice cherry mahogany stain. After scanning complex, naval base and air base markers onto adhesive paper, I placed them on the map and topped it off with plexiglass.

These are awesome!! I am printing them on photo paper, then laminating. Great job 94Canuck.

LMAO!!!