@hopper1999 I’ve access to both resin and PLA printers, and while resin has a couple of extra steps compared to PLA, I wouldn’t consider it painful. I’ve come to appreciate resin’s ability to show detail even in very small scale. For me its worth the extra steps to clean and cure, for those results. What’s great is there are so many free units available, with some simple editing/converting you can quickly build cool armies.
As for casting, while I haven’t casted any A&A parts yet (still building my unit library), I have casted a lot of 3.75 action figure parts. I’ve gotten best results using a syringe and pressure pot. (I converted a old paint pressure tank). You inject your mold, and then put it under pressure, I’d do around 30psi, to help the resin into the thinner parts of the mold and prevent bubbles. It also helps, when making your mold to put it under pressure as well. I’ve found it helps prevents bubbles in the silicone and between the silicone and the part being cast.
I plan on using casting to duplicate units I already have, that I can’t find stl files for.
Enlarged A&AR game board. Check it out!
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Here is the first one
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@Imperious:
well lets see the pics. I hope you all know you can download a larger map for revised under AARHE. You can use the map and OOB rules if your playing on the phase 2 map. Only difference is some additional VC are outlined in a DIFFERENT COLOR so you can ignore them.
I’m looking but can’t find it - link?
here the link:
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This board is made of wood. It folds up for storage. It was all hand painted with artist acrylic paint.
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Looks nice, done with lots of care. But to me it isn’t big until you can put the starting units in a territory lists on the map. It is a nice board why are you getting rid of it?
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Just to get an idea how much are you asking for it?
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@AA:
Just to get an idea how much are you asking for it?
I let people know that after they make offers. I have a few offers and am waiting to see if anyone at this site makes a higher offer. We made it to sell. The next one we will probably make will be bigger, better detailed and will have built in velt lined storage boxes in the board. If you are interested make an offer by emailing me at eldredge_7@hotmail.com. Thank you
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WOW! its hard to imagine somebody actually painting a replica of the revised map… its not like you can make a mistake and get away with it.
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What are the dimensions of that thing? It looks huge, which I’m sure it is! :-o :-P
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What are the dimensions of that thing? It looks huge, which I’m sure it is! :-o :-P
The map is 53 inches by 31. The whole folding board is 6 ft by 3 and half.
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Any more offers? It will be sold this week. Please let me know. Thank you!
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Hi S
Do you have any info on the costs for printing out your large board. I mean you must have needed a blueprinter. And it must have cost hundreds.
Has anyone else got any info experience or instruction to share about attempting to print the board?
Thx
Lawrence
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That guy sold his copies ( 2007)
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this first pic is what i had been using, i manually printed things out in one page sections via “print selection” command and pieced them all together, and laminated them with clear packing tape. Ultimately it proved to be a little larger than the default gameboard like I wanted, but still sloppy looking and with some bumps here and there which complicated unit placement due to tipping or sliding:
it was larger enough than the default board that things in europe didn’t seem so crowded anymore, but shoddy looking still, and that can wear on the nerves.
So I finally said enough is enough, and took the map pdf file on a jump drive down to minuteman press in London Kentucky and had them blow it up and laminate it….it costed $118
IPCsU.S. Dollars.Its 2 foot by 3 foot, and gives us plenty of room for stacks. I got tired of kenny’s fat fingers knocking over my german stacks and scattering them across europe…he says my money was wasted because “those damn germans were going across europe anyway I just helped you out is all”.
but here it is: