You know you guys could always build one for far less.  :)

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/maximum_pc_builds_a_multitouch_surface_computer

Mostly through a combination of very poor US rolls and incredible Italy rolls, Italy took over all of Africa and took the US Midwest. 
Italy dice attacks were on fire, even when they were helping the Germans attack USSR, Italy bowled through Russian lines like nothing.

Normally we’d both think the dice were loaded, but they came with the game!

There is a “Axis and Allies: Deluxe” forum on his site, but if you look at it, the last post was from sometime in 2009, but the majority of stuff is from 2007/2008, I think Deluxe was the Global plan.

I’ve been looking at this sort of thing for a while, but mostly the wall idea.
The problems I ran into were the obvious ones.

Subs, where do you glue the magnet?  :)
And you’d need enough models as chip stacking wouldn’t work unless your magnets were super super strong.

I had 4x Infantry, 6x Fighters, and 6x Tactical Bombers (Japan) attacking a China Territory that consisted of 2x Infantry.  Honestly, my forces had nothing better to do.

After many rounds of combat, I took it with only 2 Infantry and 1 Fighter left.  I probably shouldn’t have pressed on, but it was out last round to play as it was getting late and Germany had just fell with no hope of Italy rescuing them.

Not sure what they’re using, but we picked up a giant piece of lexan to cover our board.  Totally worth it, no guys tipping over on the folds of the board!

Not bad, we averaged close to 2 hours per turn, but there were 7 of us.  :)
Needless to say, we only made it the 6 full turns.

1.  Who collects income from Canada?

2.  Why does the Congo in Africa have “Administered from London”?  I thought it was assumed that the Europe side of the game is all UK and the Pacific is India, but the Congo commend confused me.

So do you have some fancy rule for Italy switching sides in the game? 
I understand the history, but not directly sure how that would work with a game.

Ooooh oooh, can we get some UK Union Jack symboled dice too?
We like playing the Europe/Pacific sides of the Global 1940 game completely seperate.  :)