Considering a slightly crazy game board project

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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Game Board Racks Done

Way back in February I made a post showing the racks I was working on at the time for storing and transporting my game boards ( Post here: http://gamecraftminiatures.com/tac2game/microarmor/blog/?p=403 )

Tonight I put the finishing touches on them.  They are covered with camouflage tarp material and the ends are attached with velcro and fold up to allow you to get the boards in and out.

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A little more work 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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