I haven’t used that map, but I’d recommend scaling your pieces up by about 10-20% to keep things proportional. Test fit as you go to make sure it works.
Global Gaming Table Threads and Pictures
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what stencils did you use, roundels? where did you get the inf sillouetts?
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Grasshopper’s Global Table
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DFWSupertrooper’s 1942 Table + Plans for a Premium Global 1940 Table
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Hello all! I am currently building my own custom table but am having trouble uploading pics and/or posting links. Can anyone recommend a good way to upload or link photos? I have a flickr account under MajorTaylor that has some pics.
My board is far from finished. The gaming board itself is 3/4" sanded ply board roughly 36"x60", and map is made out of handcut marble tile. My map is based off of an atlas, so the design is more accurate than the standard boards (Africa looks much better now). I chose tile because it is a material I know very well, and it should make this piece one of a kind. The marble map will look great in my game room, and the table color and design will match the rest of our furniture.
The land territories are made of various colors based each nations pieces and the ocean is black. I am considering using a medium gray grout between the seazones and a black grout between the land territories.
My table will be about 24"-30" high, dark stained wood with drawers for every nations pieces and slide outs for charts, battle boards and map enlargements (if necessary). I have also ditched the traditional sea zones in favor of a square grid system.
I would love to post pics to get everyone’s opinion. Any help you can offer would be appreciated!
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You have to have a certain number of posts here to post pics or you can try to get a mod to post them for you.
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Can anyone recommend a good way to upload or link photos? I have a flickr account under MajorTaylor that has some pics.
If those pictures can be accessed through web links, you could send me the URLs and I’ll post them here. Just send me a personal message via the forum’s “My Messages” function.
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Here’s the link to Major Taylor’s Flickr:
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Here’s the link to Major Taylor’s Flickr:
Thank you Sime! I really appreciate your help. I will be uploading some more pics soon, and hopefully I can upload them here soon as well.
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Here’s the link to Major Taylor’s Flickr:
That is absolutely beautiful insanity happening right there. Two thumbs up for sure!!
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Here’s the link to Major Taylor’s Flickr:
Thank you Sime! I really appreciate your help. I will be uploading some more pics soon, and hopefully I can upload them here soon as well.
Whoa - that is pretty awesome!
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Very impressive and definitely unique in its style!
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Glad everyone likes it!
I am in the process of doing my final fit right now, this involves cleaning all the tiles and placing them to check their spacing and making any necessary adjustments. I will try to take some new pics tonight. The board looks amazing when it is completely covered in polished marble.
I made a last minute substitution of colors for Germany and Japan. The dark grey German tiles were beautiful, but in the end just too close to the black ocean tiles. And the yellow marble used for Japan was far to brittle, I was unable to get the desired detail, it has been replaced with a tan marble.
If you guys have any recommendations please feel free to send them!
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If you guys have any recommendations please feel free to send them!
Here’s one idea that may already be part of your plans. Since the map is basically a giant mosaic, you may want to attach the pieces to the table in a way that’s non-permanent (in other words, not with glue) so that individual pieces can be removed easily for replacement if they ever get damaged. And this would also allow the whole set of pieces to be removed and reassembled if you ever move to a new home, which would greatly facilitate transportation. Maybe the thing to do would be to put a small square (about 1 cm x 1 cm) of double-faced tape at the back of each small piece (and several at the back of the larger ones). This would be enough to keep the pieces fixed in a stable position on the table, while still allowing easy removal as needed.
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@CWO:
If you guys have any recommendations please feel free to send them!
Here’s one idea that may already be part of your plans. Since the map is basically a giant mosaic, you may want to attach the pieces to the table in a way that’s non-permanent (in other words, not with glue) so that individual pieces can be removed easily for replacement if they ever get damaged.
CWO Marc, that is an interesting idea. My tile work in the past has been kitchens and bathrooms so my focus has always been on making it permanent, this will take some more thought, lol. Ease of repair and the ability to change a desired territory or seazone would be a nice feature.
The issue I run into is in how the tile adheres to the board. I will be using an extremely fine grout between each tile so I will need something that holds the tile firmly in place so the grout does not crack because of shifting pressures.
I think what I can do is apply whichever adhesive I use on a every single tile rather than the entire board, this way if I need to replace a tile I should be able to chisel out the grout around it and pop out the single tile with a puller. I will have to do a small scale testing and see how it works out. Thanks for the great idea!
Pretty soon I will have to pick grout colors. I am thinking black between land territories and medium or dark grey between sea zones and on the coast lines. What do you guys think?
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I will be using an extremely fine grout between each tile so I will need something that holds the tile firmly in place so the grout does not crack because of shifting pressures. I think what I can do is apply whichever adhesive I use on a every single tile rather than the entire board, this way if I need to replace a tile I should be able to chisel out the grout around it and pop out the single tile with a puller.
I’m really out of my area of expertise here, but here’s another thought. The part about chiselling out the grout sounds messy and labour-intensive, so I’m wondering: could the space between the tiles be filled instead with melted paraffin wax? If this is technically feasible, it would (I think) have two advantages: the solidified wax would be somewhat plastic (hence it wouldn’t crack if the tiles shifted), and the wax around a specific tile could be melted easily to allow the tile’s extraction for replacement.
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Wow! The Sistine Chapel of AA boards. I’d like to do my shower this way. Awesome man!
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That is truly amazing.
Are you planning on putting a clear overlay on the countries with economic value/victory cities/sea zone numbers?
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