Game mats

Started by Luddite, 12 July 2014, 08:58:24 PM

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Ithoriel

No idea as to costs or timescales or the detail possible but ...

Hotz Mats do custom orders
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toxicpixie

No specific details but a couple of people have had a graphics place/banner/sign printers do them matts from an image file - sort cognition you see events or stalls with, on thick vinyl. they sounded reasonably priced from memory and looked decent to game on & good enough to last!
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GrumpyOldMan

Hello Hwiccee

Quote from: Hwiccee on 20 May 2016, 12:11:58 PM
Does anyone know of a company that does custom mats of specific battles? I am planning an 18th century demo game and I will have to travel to some events by train. So conventional terrain will be a problem. What I am after is someone to make a mat of a specific battle, it won't be Blenheim but that battlefield for example.

Does anyone do that?

Wasn't there some FPW(?) battles shown that were played on large prints of the actual maps of the battle. Had a quick look but couldn't find them. Does anybody else remember these or am I going more gaga than normal?

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

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GrumpyOldMan

Quote from: mad lemmey on 21 May 2016, 12:23:41 AM
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That's what I thought but there are only a few pictures in photobucket and his blog seems to have disappeared. I seem to remember lots of good pictures in forum posts.

Leman

Wargame Vault has a large number of downloadable mats which you then get a third party to print on cloth, vinyl or paper. They look good but I have absolutely no idea how this is done or how one goes about getting it printed as WV seem to assume one already knows.
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Hwiccee

Yes the using an image file and making a 'sign' sounds good. I am not sure where I will get a good image but it does at least sound doable.

It would be great if someone can locate the FPW ones? Does anyone know what map/kind of map was used for these?

Thanks all

Le Manchou

Well, The FPW maps don't exist for sale in my knowledge, the one I used in my games were the work of a Chinese artist who painted the maps from a general staff map model or a Bruce Weigle's map I gave to her. You can check them on my web site:

http://2d6.fr/projet1870/index.php?pages/Les-batailles-propos%C3%A9es

and

http://2d6.fr/projet1870/index.php?pages/les-tables-de-la-salle-tactique

and

http://2d6.fr/projet1870/index.php?
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Hwiccee

Quote from: Le Manchou on 21 May 2016, 01:13:41 PM
Well, The FPW maps don't exist for sale in my knowledge, the one I used in my games were the work of a Chinese artist who painted the maps from a general staff map model or a Bruce Weigle's map I gave to her. You can check them on my web site:

http://2d6.fr/projet1870/index.php?pages/Les-batailles-propos%C3%A9es

and

http://2d6.fr/projet1870/index.php?pages/les-tables-de-la-salle-tactique

and

http://2d6.fr/projet1870/index.php?

WOW these are fantastic but probably more than I will need. I will try the printer but I might come back to you if that does not work.

Leman

Too Fat Lardies produce a CD of a massive map around Metz which was produced by the German military in 1872. I don't know whether segments of this could be rendered as a tabletop mat, but I imagine it's possible in the same way as the WV mats mentioned above.
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Hwiccee

Sounds good but unfortunately any 19th century map is likely to be unusable for a late 17th/early 18th century battle. Also I haven't decided which battle to do yet but I am looking at battles in Spain, Holland, the Balkans and Russia.

Leman

Whoops, thought this was a FPW thread - moving on, moving on.
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Hwiccee

Leman: Good link and thanks for the thought.

Le Manchou: A great resource - thanks :)