I’ve done about all I can before the convention this weekend. There is almost no end of the detail I could keep adding … but this is good enough for now.
Baghdad Parade Grounds Boards – Done For Now
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Baghdad Parade Grounds Boards Progress
This project is going right up to the wire. It’s early Tuesday morning right now and I’ve got to have these boards at a convention in Los Angeles on Friday. It’s going to be close. Honestly, they could go just as they are right now .. but I really want to get a lot more detail added before Friday and if I can somehow manage it I would love to get one more row of boards on the east end of the set.
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- The water in the pond is going in one layer at a time. It looks a little white in this photo but it dries clear
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- The three boards at this end were added tonight.
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- I’d like to add three more boards to this end if there is time before Friday
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- I’ll be plating about 60 palm trees tomorrow
Progress on the Parade Grounds boards
Well, the convention in Los Angeles is exactly 2 weeks away and I still have lots to do to finish these boards … so the sensible thing to do at this point was to add another row of three boards to each end of the setup.
Now the entire array will be 3 boards wide and 6 boards long (5′ x 12′)
Here are the three boards being added to the west end of the parade grounds.
Parade Grounds Progress – 8/12/14
Ground covering is going in and it’s starting to take shape. Still lots of work to do south of the buildings in the parking lot areas and the southwest and southeast corners where there will be a lot smaller buildings.
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- I’m actually placing the bushes based on locations for satellite photos. Yes, I’m a little crazy.
Back to work…
I’m back from Historicon and I’ve done just a little more to my Baghdad Parade Grounds boards. The roads are painted and now it’s time to start with the ground covering. I’m also working on a few of the buildings I’ll be needing for this.
My Latest Bit Of Madness
Here is the beginnings of my latest project, the Baghdad Parade Grounds in 1/285th scale. I’ve been working on the design for this set of game boards for quite a while,,, this is actually why I originally created the “Crossed Swords” miniature that GameCraft sells.
This set of boards will be massive, it’s a total of 12 boards, each one measuring 20″ x 20″. The total size of this will be 60″ x 80″ and that 80″ number is likely to grow as I add additional boards to the east end. If I cheat a little bit in distances I can maybe extend this board to the east far enough to include the Presidential Palace (The Al Sijood Palace).
On April 7th 2003, Task Force 1-64 of the 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Brigade rolled into the Parade Grounds after fighting their way in from the south west. Once at the Parade Grounds there was little to no resistance left in their way. I’m thinking of running a game where the US forces encounter stiff resistance at the Parade Grounds.
The first two photos show the CAD design of these boards, the second one shows the design laid over a satellite photo of the parade grounds.
You want biscuits with that?
Tonight I got the idea to make my boards accept biscuits just in cast any of them warp a little over time or if I ever set them up on a surface that is not totally flat. The biscuits will keep all boards perfectly aligned.
If you’ve never heard of wood working biscuits, check out this page on Wikipedia
WWII Bombed City Boards – Done
A 40″ x 40″ game board representing a generic WWII European destroyed city. There are just over 200 buildings making up this city.
Baghdad International Airport
Finally got around to mounting the terminal buildings to the base and started working on a concept for the jetway models.
Game board for the new Al Sijood Palace
This board will be a game board for the new GameCarft Al Sijood Presidential Palace. The prototype for this model is located in Baghdad Iraq and was one of Sadam’s many palaces.
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