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I AM the Mad Scot! None are my equal! Many are my betters!
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Post subject: Coming soon to a forum near you!! 3D WAS Islands!
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I am aware that gale force 9 is supposedly going to be putting out some "3D islands" etc for WAS. But I like makin my own.
Here are some pics of some in the Work In Process stages.
The fun part is actually sculpting them.
I am mounting these on heavy duty card stock so they have some rigidity to them and to fit in with how the 1D cards are formatted.
Now I have also developed some islands that were not originally printed on cards, and used in some cases aerial photos of islands in the Pacific as models.
Pics will appear in an edit of this post. at the moment I am waiting for photobucket to be available for uploading.
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Can't wait! Looking forward's to seeing them!!  Okie
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A step by step on how I made my Islands:
1) First I start with a block of dry foam used in arrainging artificial flowers.
as you can see it can be carved and sculpted, but be careful because it is very brittle too.
2) I then use a very sharp long knife to slice it approximately 1/2" thick or there abouts. Depending on how big I want to make the Island I will either slice it down long ways into rectangles or into squares.
3) The next step is cutting out the general shape of the island. If you have a template then use the template as a cutting guide. I use a #1 exacto blade to cut out the shape.
4) Next step is sculpting it down. I use all kind of things for sculpting with but I found that using a large curved exacto blade works wonders along the edges to get the shore line.
And thats how I did it!
5) Now that you have your island sculpted out how you want it to look it needs to be base painted. Now the choice is yours how you wish to do this but I have found it is much easier to handle the islands if they are glued to a card base. I usually start with what ever colour will be the over all color or predominiate colour on the piece.
6) Continue to paint the island and it's base. Use white along the shore edges, you only need to go up to 1/8" around the edges. Paint brown or greens etc.
 
7) Once the paint has dried completely, it is now time to add the flocking. If you start with standard "white glue" then pour some into a small container (cold remedy cup is perfect) then add twice the amount of water and mix to thin it out. Using an old broad type paint brush, brush on the thinned out glue to where you wish to have the flocking, then sprinkle the flocking liberally over the glue, and allow to dry.
8) Add clumps of heavy foliage as desired
 
9) This is purely optional but I have found that if you spray a light coat of clear dull lacquer, that it will seal everything in.
 
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| Okie wrote: | | Can't wait! Looking forward's to seeing them!! Okie |
OK Okie, here is how I did it with pics, and more pics are coming!!!
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Those are totaly cool and will add a lot to the battle map's.     
Okie I believe this should be a sticky also!!
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Definately a sticky. Can you post bigger pics too? I want to try these out. They are awesome!
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Think I'm going to try this one out.
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Excellent!
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| seisen wrote: | Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:48 pm Post subject:
Definately a sticky. Can you post bigger pics too? I want to try these out. They are awesome |
I will certainly try. When I originally uploaded them to my photobucket page, I did it at the 1 megabyte and it copied here soooo big that it dominated the page, you could not see the entire image all at once, you had to use the scroll bars. So, I re-uploaded them at different sizes until I could get the entire image to be seen all at once.
I will try to re- upload the same images in a larger size and post them here, however, I am afraid they will end up too big on this thread.
Oh Wow! my first sticky thread! Thanks guys.
I will post more pics here as I get the different islands from the WAS game made. In the meantime go to my photobucket web album to see all my WAS pics. Feel free to copy what ever pics you want to save.
Here is the URL to my photobucket account & the Axis & Allies album:
http://s188.photobucket.com/album...20Allies%20War%20at%20Sea%20pics/
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Three of the smaller islands after flocking and further embellishments.
Large islands base painted on card back.
One of the large islands after painting and adding flocking
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Post subject: Completed Islands.
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Here are the islands completed.
group shot 1
group shot 2
group shot 3
group shot 4
Base coat in green:
Adding more colour:
Now with foliage added and airfield detail.
Here is a side shot;
Here is another of the large islands with the base colour:
Now with foliage added, check out the marina and airfield.
A side shot;
Here is Large Island #3 with base colour.
Now with flocking, foliage and airfield added;
Now a side view
Small Island #1
Small Island #2
Small Island #3
Small Island #4
Small Island#5
Small Island #6 Sand island
Small Island #7
Small Island #8
Small Island #9 Volcano Island
I'm willing to make these for anyone who would like some.
$8 for the small islands $15 for the basic large islands. $5 more if you want airfields or any other embellishments.
I will apply flock, foliage clumps and mount them on comic backer board for basing. I will paint the water in and add in some detail.
I will keep the shipping reasonable no more than $5 and I will always ship via 2-3 day priority with delivery confirmation. please pm me for payment preferences.
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Nice work, Bro!
I think I can see Tom Hanks trying (unsuccessfully) to hang himself off a tree at the top of one of those.  
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