@The-Captain
I used 3mm thumb nuts drilled out to fit 3mm acrylic rods. I used a number of 3d printed jigs for cutting the rods, assembly of the stands and gluing the magnets. If I remember later I’ll attached some pictures of the jigs/stands

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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

!

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

@vodot I did look through the thread and I’ve come up with a rule set unlike anything there I believe. I’m still play testing and might change them farther for balance.
Axis & Allies Optional Rules - AA50.pdf

@Pvt_Griff Thank you! Let me see when your done! Now just cointemplating buying a global game and getting BBR or something going. Daunting task for sure.

Hey folks,
This is my first post to the site and I’ve recently started my customization journey with AA50. My best customization yet is this magnetic tracker board set. The roundels are 3d printed by my design with press fit magnets. The boards are just common steel sheets with a label applied that I designed. The bases are another self designed base for angling the sheets and storing the extra roundels.

Let me know what you think!

(https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zllLFe2Offr3GEfH0-JTNgcGUK6Ha_oL?usp=sharing)

@TitusJames

@Pvt_Griff the metal prints are just full sheet labels I printed and laminated then applied to sheet metal. I designed the magnetic roundels myself to fit 6x2 mm magnets.

@Pvt_Griff Thank you! Let me see when your done! Now just cointemplating buying a global game and getting BBR or something going. Daunting task for sure.

@vodot If you want to include this in your list that would be cool! I think the added money is tons of fun and having the us have a lot more of the share is historical and also allows them to have a lot more reach on both sides of the board.

@vodot I did look through the thread and I’ve come up with a rule set unlike anything there I believe. I’m still play testing and might change them farther for balance.
Axis & Allies Optional Rules - AA50.pdf

@Pvt_Griff the metal prints are just full sheet labels I printed and laminated then applied to sheet metal. I designed the magnetic roundels myself to fit 6x2 mm magnets.

@TitusJames
Paint colors here

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

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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

!

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

@The-Captain
I used 3mm thumb nuts drilled out to fit 3mm acrylic rods. I used a number of 3d printed jigs for cutting the rods, assembly of the stands and gluing the magnets. If I remember later I’ll attached some pictures of the jigs/stands

@TitusJames

@Panther Thank you! I will do so from now on!

Hey folks,
This is my first post to the site and I’ve recently started my customization journey with AA50. My best customization yet is this magnetic tracker board set. The roundels are 3d printed by my design with press fit magnets. The boards are just common steel sheets with a label applied that I designed. The bases are another self designed base for angling the sheets and storing the extra roundels.

Let me know what you think!

(https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zllLFe2Offr3GEfH0-JTNgcGUK6Ha_oL?usp=sharing)