Air Force Bases of CloD 2 - Extended printable content!

[VO101_Tom]

Originally Posted by Trooper117

Once again, many thanks for the time and effort you have spent doing this.. Much appreciated

You're welcome, use it often!
Yeah, it took much more time than i expected before (but I don't regret)

[Artist]

Hi Tom,

Originally Posted by VO101_Tom

Sounds great, but €28? I'm glad if you feel that it worth it.

I am not telling you what I paid for the printing of the cards I got the french part now, too (see attachments). Same material as the other one.

I didn't found similar material when I was looking for printing solutions, but the paper is good enough for me.

Well it's called Tyvek (or Tywek) and in my local print/copyshop they got it from hewlett packard. It comes in a 17 feet, 36 inch (5m by 914mm) role. The printer itself (hp, too) costs about a middle sized car, they told me.

I was laminated the paper, then I can draw attack plan on it (it was used on weekend-sowc )

In earlier times they used transparent paper laid over the map (and then kept it for the archives).

Artist

[VO101_Tom]

Originally Posted by Artist

Hi Tom,


I am not telling you what I paid for the printing of the cards I got the french part now, too (see attachments). Same material as the other one.


Well it's called Tyvek (or Tywek) and in my local print/copyshop they got it from hewlett packard. It comes in a 17 feet, 36 inch (5m by 914mm) role. The printer itself (hp, too) costs about a middle sized car, they told me.

In earlier times they used transparent paper laid over the map (and then kept it for the archives).

Artist

I can imagine, 130 page plus covers isn't cheap...

[Artist]

I took one step further with the map, as it it rather big (90cm by 102cm, see my earlier post in this thread) and difficult to handle/fold during flight: I applied the Falk Patented Folding. There's no article on this ingenious idea in the English wikipedia (just in the German one), so a short explanation here (and pictures):

This special way of folding a big map and cutting slits at certain places allows to leaf through the folded map both horizontally and vertically - while never exceeding a total unfolded size of much, much less than the whole map. In my case I choose a leaf-through size of 25 by 25.5 cm and folded and cut accordingly.

The pictures in this (and - due to the limitation of max 5 images per post - the next post) show the folded map, the vertical and horizontal leafing, and finally the first step of unfolding the whole map.

[Artist]

Falk Folding continued

[VO101_Tom]

I do not cut the map, but I folding that the whole plan will be visible

[VBF-12_Gosling]

VO101_Tom

Tom. Quite outstanding. I will be linking to your documents from my 616sqn.tidesofwar.net website for CloD.

I had wanted to do something similar. I realise it is a huge peice of work and I doubt you want to develope it further from its excellent state. The only thing I would ask is that, being a Fleet Air Arm pilot, I would love the Royal Naval Airstations (with their "Ship" Names) to be identified from the RAF and Civilain fields. Maybe just changing the names in the "Enroute Supplement".

RNAS Ford - HMS Peregrine
RNAS Gosport - HMS Siskin
RNAS Heathrow
RNAS Lee-on-Solent - HMS Daedelas
RNAS Lymne - HMS Buzzard
RNAS Worthy Down - HMS Kestral

Heree is a reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...the_Royal_Navy

Many thanks for your consideration.

Gosling
IL2:1946 - VBF-12
IL2:CloD - 616 Sqn

[VO101_Tom]

Originally Posted by VBF-12_Gosling

VO101_Tom

Tom. Quite outstanding. I will be linking to your documents from my 616sqn.tidesofwar.net website for CloD.

I had wanted to do something similar. I realise it is a huge peice of work and I doubt you want to develope it further from its excellent state. The only thing I would ask is that, being a Fleet Air Arm pilot, I would love the Royal Naval Airstations (with their "Ship" Names) to be identified from the RAF and Civilain fields. Maybe just changing the names in the "Enroute Supplement".

RNAS Ford - HMS Peregrine
RNAS Gosport - HMS Siskin
RNAS Heathrow
RNAS Lee-on-Solent - HMS Daedelas
RNAS Lymne - HMS Buzzard
RNAS Worthy Down - HMS Kestral

Heree is a reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...the_Royal_Navy

Many thanks for your consideration.

Gosling
IL2:1946 - VBF-12
IL2:CloD - 616 Sqn

Hi.
I'm glad if you like it, and thanks if you share on other pages.

I don't quite understand what you asking. When I finished the first release, I get a weblink from bongodriver: Airfields of Britain. I made the english cards based on this webpage (names, RAF/Civil usage). So, you asking me to change this couple of cards, using the RNAS name in the header? For example: "RNAS Ford - HMS Peregrine" instead of "Ford"? I can do that, and save it into different pdf. No problem... if i understand right...

[Osprey]

Originally Posted by Artist

Hi Tom,

Well it's called Tyvek (or Tywek) and in my local print/copyshop they got it from hewlett packard. It comes in a 17 feet, 36 inch (5m by 914mm) role. The printer itself (hp, too) costs about a middle sized car, they told me.

Artist

I used to work for Wiggins Teape so know about Tyvek, we used to sell it. It's not a HP product though they may buy it, cut it and sell it in small packs for a big mark up. It is pretty expensive but you can't rip it and it's waterproof, so print it on this stuff and you're good for a long time

[Artist]

Yes, its really durable and perfect for the Falk-folding (slits and all). Hp had its logo printed on the start-margin and *they* spelled it Tywek. I wonder who's the original manufacturer, DuPont?