With the scuppering of my plans for 1/144th scale Russian Front air wargaming, I've been left with an itch to do something similar in 1/285th, with the Bag the Hun Winter War project being the obvious way to scratch it. This is all ready to go, except for the hex cloth that I have been searching for with little or no success for a couple of years now. I want to have a winter forest and lake themed cloth but, after some enquiries about having one custom designed, I've had to accept that it's way beyond the stretch of my pocket money.
This means either making one myself, which will look terrible, or using one off the shelf which isn't quite right but will do. A good example is the snow cloth from Tinywargames, which would be a reasonable compromise, but even that is sixty quid plus postage for a 6' x 4 sheet. One possibility would be to go for a smaller 4' x 4' cloth, which might work given the lower speeds of the aircraft involved, typically around 5 or 6 hexes per turn and the smaller number of aircraft in scenarios. I'd be using 35mm hexes, so that would allow for five turns or so of movement in a straight line, before the aircraft would fly off the edge of the world.
I think I need to think about this idea some more...it might solve a sticky problem?
For my gaming mats I buy the image in Wargame Vault and then print it in Pixartprinting. If you wait for one of their periodic sales, you can get a vinyl mat for less than 20 quids. For instance, you have this mat: https://www.wargamevault.com/product/183962/Wargames-Battle-Mat-6x4--Winter-Snow-031 You have to add the hex grid. Ask me if you need more info about printing the mat in Pixarprinting. You can see a couple of my mats here: http://covadotrasno.blogspot.com/search/label/Bag%20The%20Hun
ReplyDeleteI'll look into that. Thanks for the idea.
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