[Consim-l] Counter Question

[Mike NotSpecified]

Tom, do you do requests?  Many of the counters in my favorite games seem to 
have a font that shrinks as I age.  I'm having a harder and harder time 
reading some of them without a magnifying glass.  Some of the really old games 
actually have quite a bit of unused room and I've started painting out the 
existing factors and rewriting them with a fine marker, while retaining the 
orginial color and icon.  Works, but time consuming.  And before I go to the 
trouble and expense of scanner, graphics program, learning how to use it all, 
well I'd be willing to commission a nice set of updated counters or two....


On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 18:30:33 -0500
  "Thomas Cundiff" <tdcgunslinger at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Well, I understand your sentiment, but your methods are crude.  If you 
>checked out the "Old Soldiers Magzine" website, you'd find that I actually 
>make for sale many counter sets and expansions.
> 
> Commentary regarding the quality of my counter sets range from "Beautiful! 
>to "Better than factory Made" to "The Best Counters Made Anywhere".  I sought 
>high and low for the best quality products and methods to produce my own 
>counters for precisely this purpose and when I was finally happy with them, I 
>made what I had done for my own games available for others.
> 
> I'll give you a hint.  My counter sets are all Laminated!  I do that not 
>only for a beautiful finish, which it accomplishes, but more importantly to 
>create a hard wearing surface which lasts far longer than what is found on 
>counters that come in game boxes from the game companies.  My sets are 
>expensive, but if you want the best ... well, you get what you pay for.
> 
> And, yes, I do intend to finally get around to making my own set of counters 
>for Empire in Arms, as alluded to in the previous post, that was one of the 
>reasons I was trying to figure out who that stray counter belonged to.  But, 
>I think I'll probably track down the various variants and produce those 
>counters too.
> 
> Don't know what this set will cost just yet, but I'll let you know.  Since I 
>can get 285 half inch counters on a sheet I suspect it will not cost much 
>(can't imagine there'd be more than 285 new leaders for all of the variants, 
>plus re-making the originals in the correct colors).
> 
> Take Care,
> Tom
> Old Soldiers Magazine
> Website: http://mysite.verizon.net/rjlein/osm
>Forum: http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=179
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerber, Hjalmar" 
><hjalmar.gerber at ualberta.ca>
> To: "consim" <consim-l at mailman.halisp.net>
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 5:42 PM
> Subject: RE: [Consim-l] Empire in Arms Leader Expansion Question
> 
> 
>> Get some graphics/drawing software, glossy photo paper, an inkjet printer,
>> glue, cardboard . . .
>>
>> And make the counters and colours you want.
>>
>> Hjalmar
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: consim-l-bounces at mailman.halisp.net
>> [mailto:consim-l-bounces at mailman.halisp.net] On Behalf Of Thomas Cundiff
>> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 3:29 PM
>> To: consim
>> Subject: Re: [Consim-l] Empire in Arms Leader Expansion Question
>>
>>
>> Hehe, my British are actually PINK, not red, and the Turks and Russians 
>> are
>> both the same shade of Green, except for the Peckiluan counter which is a
>> sort of yellow with a bit of green thrown in for flavoring.  The French 
>> and
>> Prussians (especially the variant Prussians and French) are
>> indistinguishable except that the "sash" across the French is PINK and the
>> Prussians Purple.  The background colors are precisely the same.
>>
>> I once wrote to Avalon Hill about this and they offered to replace the
>> counters, but before I could get them sent in AH ceased to exist.
>>
>> I ran across some expansions that had been on the net some years ago 
>> (close
>> to 10 years now) that I took off a server at Indiana University
>> (Bloomington) [ they're not there now - at least I didn't find them]. 
>> Those
>>
>> expansions were for the 7 Years War, the Great Northern War, several for 
>> the
>>
>> French Revolutionary Wars, and oddly one for the Franco-Prussian War of
>> 1870.
>>
>> All of those variants came with their own leader counters and ratings.
>> Seems to me prime ground for some of my counter sets :)
>>
>> Tom
>> Old Soldiers Magazine
>> Website: http://mysite.verizon.net/rjlein/osm
>> Forum: http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=179
>>
>>
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