Air Force Bases of CloD 2 - Extended printable content!

[VO101_Tom]

Originally Posted by Artist

Tom,

just thought you'd like to see the your excellent work having been printed on 280g paper, enclosed in a 1,5mm cardboard cover and bound with a (rather too big, but eh!, 60 pages!) spiral.

Artist

Awww, cool! Thank you
Good to see if someone else find my work useful. I have not printed out the sheets (yet), only the large map. I suggest you print it out, if you have not already (The Copy General print it out about 5$. It worth it!

[TUSA/TX-Gunslinger]

Thanks so very much for these fine maps.

I use them every time I fly. Best addition to CoD ever made.

[Artist]

Hi Tom,

Originally Posted by VO101_Tom

I suggest you print it out, if you have not already (The Copy General print it out about 5$. It worth it!

did it (see attachment): Printed on 90cm x 102cm Tyvek, an almost untearable paperlike material used for maps, constructing plans, and the like. Paid €28 - but it really is worth it.

Artist

[Robo.]

Originally Posted by Artist

Hi Tom,



did it (see attachment): Printed on 90cm x 102cm Tyvek, an almost untearable paperlike material used for maps, constructing plans, and the like. Paid €28 - but it really is worth it.

Artist

Great idea!

And this thread should be sticky...

[Trooper117]

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

[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)

[VO101_Tom]

Originally Posted by Artist

Hi Tom,

did it (see attachment): Printed on 90cm x 102cm Tyvek, an almost untearable paperlike material used for maps, constructing plans, and the like. Paid €28 - but it really is worth it.

Artist

Sry Artist, I just see that you have written.
Sounds great, but €28? I'm glad if you feel that it worth it.
I didn't found similar material when I was looking for printing solutions, but the paper is good enough for me. I was laminated the paper, then I can draw attack plan on it (it was used on weekend-sowc )

[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.