A friend and I had a quick and dirty Battle of Britain dogfight in Wings of Glory to christen the new game mat; try out the magnets I ordered; play with my new coloured smoke cotton; and try out some of the ace rules.
The RAF had a single Hurricane IIA and one Spit Mk II, both the spiffy ace abilities. The Luftwaffe had two 109E-3s and a Bf-110C4 with standard pilots. Sadly, the game was moving so quickly that I didn't always remember to snap photos. At any rate, it was a fun little battle that was over all too quickly. There wasn't much room to maneuver around and it pretty much ended after a single head-on pass with one 109 down in flames and both RAF planes flying off the map, unable to turn due to rudder damage. Their ace abilities didn't help much in this game at all.
In order to mount magnets, I cut a single game peg in half for each plane and then mounted the ring magnet to one half and the gimbal to the other but they just weren't quite strong enough. I know a lot of players will cut the peg mount off the bottom of the aircraft miniature and glue the ball bearing onto the model directly but I didn't want to damage the figures with my spastic meat hooks. I just know they'd end up covered in random patches of Krazy glue and my fingerprints and bits of skin so I tried this approach.
It worked well for the 109s and the Spitfire but the 110 and the Hurricane were just a little too heavy and would flop over if the angle was more than about 15 degrees forward or aft or about 20 degrees left/right. Oh well, still looks cool when it works.
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Nice! O0
Thanks.
Like the orange and black cotton fee the flaming plane. O0 Whered you get it?
The planes really do look cool when gambled this way. I've done my WWI planes. But the heavier 2 seaters don't hold well either.... Maybe need to find some stronger/larger magnets.
I bought the magnets from the Wings of Glory aerodrome website so I assumed they were sized to hold the models. I know they sell larger ones for the bombers as well.
I got the coloured cotton from an arts and crafts store's Hallowe'en collection. Just had to pluck the little plastic spiders out of it.
Here's the cotton stuff I bought. A little tough to pull apart but I think it works well enough.
https://www.amazon.ca/Mochiglory-Halloween-Decoration-Strechable-Plastic/dp/B01IK9KAGQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472518143&sr=8-1&keywords=mochiglory+cotton (https://www.amazon.ca/Mochiglory-Halloween-Decoration-Strechable-Plastic/dp/B01IK9KAGQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472518143&sr=8-1&keywords=mochiglory+cotton)