Post by Pearl Harbor Pete on Jun 3, 2018 0:33:32 GMT
I only voted for Japan and US as those are the only two I have and are interested in. I did look at the Allies Minors and Australia/NZ but I will leave those to you big guns... Enjoy this site! Keep up the good work!
Post by Pearl Harbor Pete on Feb 18, 2018 16:34:16 GMT
I also have bases for my aircraft. Although I have never seen any of these in my trolling of A&A sites I kinda wanted to have bases for them as well tying certain aircraft to certain carriers. Across the top is the type of aircraft and along the left side is where the aircraft is based. As you can see I do not have an extensive collection of aircraft yet. I was concentrating on the ships first.
Post by Pearl Harbor Pete on Feb 18, 2018 16:33:23 GMT
On the larger ships I am now printing a label with my home printer and sticking the label to a piece of plastic cut to fit. Unfortunately I have not found a real good source of plastic yet. The ones I have done so far are a hard, more brittle plastic than the name badges and are impossible to cut so I have to break them. So far I have only done the two aircraft carriers although as you can see I have made labels for others.
This edge view second photo shows the difference between the larger plastic and the card stock. There is a cruiser sitting on top the deck of a carrier. The Carrier plastic is thicker and clear while the Cruiser is on card stock and is thinner and white.
Post by Pearl Harbor Pete on Feb 18, 2018 16:31:12 GMT
My bases are homemade, sorta. Let me first say I really like Reacher's bases and I even reached out to him once to set a tentative order but I am on a budget and I figured the more I spend on bases the fewer ships I could purchase. The smaller ships are on a plastic card similar to what you would see for name badges or drivers licenses. I used a printer from IDVille. I used word and Photoshop to create the design (which I borrowed from Reacher) and then print them directly to the card. I used the roundels from the WOTC website.
This is what the jpg looks like before I place it on the badge. As you can tell I do have other Pacific ally units as well but I have sold off all of my Atlantic fleet units to help defray the cost of the Pacific Units.
The only problem with the name badge system is that the badge blanks are only 3-1/4" wide so ships that are longer than this the badge system won't work for. See how the Cruisers stick out over the base edges.
Post by Pearl Harbor Pete on Feb 17, 2018 22:28:18 GMT
Still looking for a Utah (Florida Class BB) & USS Allen (Sampson Class DD) Also looking for USCG Taney & USS Solace but I think I have seen Taney on Shapeways. Also need really small ships like Coastal Minesweepers USS Cockatoo & Ocean Tug Navajo.