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Post by AllenRockwell »

Just a bit more progress on the airport.

A bit more work on the sand texture. This is the second layer of the process, it's still wet in this photo and looks a little shiny. Also a lot more color blending will be done in future steps.... but this gives you an idea which direction it's going.

The real airport in Baghdad is just pure sand everywhere but I think I'm going to add a little bit of vegetation in a few areas just to break up line of sight to make gaming a little more interesting.

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A new terrain board

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I just finished a new board for my new Al Sijood Presidential Palace.

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Post by pibber »

Fantastic work on your Presidential Palace AllenRockwell :shock:
Your game boarding look amazing ; very awesome job !
Congratulations ! :wink:

Thank you for sharing with us !
Pibber.
(Long life to GHQ !)

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pibber wrote:Fantastic work on your Presidential Palace AllenRockwell :shock:
Your game boarding look amazing ; very awesome job !
Congratulations ! :wink:
Thank you for sharing with us !
Thanks a lot Pibber. Micro Armor is my passion :) I love this stuff.

I've been a happy GHQ customer for about 33 years or so now.
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Post by RedLeif »

WOW, that is very cool.

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Post by 6mmwargaming »

Amazing work Allen. The shear scale of the model is impressive :shock: :shock:

Cheers
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My creepy terrain.. :D

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bought in Aachen, Germany. It's almost to scale.
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Got a little work done on the Baghdad Int'l Airport last night. Finally installed the terminal building and started working out how to make the jetways.

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A little more progress on the airport. Today I made the 4 jetways. If you are interested the jetways are made from 40' and 20' containers and a bit of 3/8" styrene tube. The wheels are from GHQ HEMMT trucks.

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Maybe a new game board project

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I'm considering a new game board project that might finally answer the age old question "Is Allen out of his mind?"

A while ago I built a model of the Iraqi Ministry of Justice building that resides at the intersection of Haifa St and Nasir St. in downtown Baghdad. If I don't say so myself, it's a pretty impressive model. I also noticed that the building across the street, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs is a mirror image of the same building with the exception of a bit of the "tail" cut off. So making that building would be a piece of cake since I have the MoJ building already designed in CAD ... just mirror the drawing and chop off the bit that's missing on the other building. Once I thought about doing this second building, I got the crazy idea of doing a set of game boards around the area where these buildings live. I figured out that I could do four boards at 20" x 20" (my standard board size) and take in this area very nicely. I'll have to think about this ... these two buildings would the centerpiece of the project, but there would also need to be a few hundred smaller buildings around the neighborhood,,, and that's where the real work would be.

The first photo shows the area being considered, shown in 4 20" x 20" boards. The next two show my existing Iraqi MoJ building model.

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Post by Luca »

Hi Allen, did you know about the existence of a scaled down full reproduction of XIX century prague, made in 1:480?

http://www.langweil.cz/pmodel.php

http://www.radio.cz/en/section/czechs/a ... own-prague

I visited it this summer, and is really impressive.
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Luca wrote:Hi Allen, did you know about the existence of a scaled down full reproduction of XIX century prague, made in 1:480?
http://www.langweil.cz/pmodel.php
http://www.radio.cz/en/section/czechs/a ... own-prague
I visited it this summer, and is really impressive.
That is very cool. I fear that someday I'll end up with a 285th scale Baghdad :)
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The latest insanity from me

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Still lots to do fine tuning the rubble and adding other details. In reality there should be a lot more rubble but I'm trying to keep these boards somewhat "playable" and durable.

The entire city occupies an area of exactly 40" x 40", or just over one square meter.

This might be the craziest project I've undertaken in some time ... at least since my 285th scale model of the Eiffel Tower.

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Post by whoa Mohamed »

holy cow Allen
every man for all mens rights
all men for every mans rights

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Post by dragon6 »

whoa Mohamed wrote:holy cow Allen
Indeed! :shock:
Ray

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