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Post by scvngr on Jan 4, 2016 17:54:58 GMT -5
Does anyone know where to find some period looking maps for prop purposes? Google only seems to provide maps with troop movements over them. Service Of Supply sells 'campaign' maps but aren't quite what I'm after, nor what I want to spend $25us on.
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ScottCollins
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Post by ScottCollins on Jan 4, 2016 19:09:58 GMT -5
Why don't you go to Google maps and find your location? If you create your own, you could actually use them in the field, and you'd create exactly what you want. That's what we do at least!
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2nd Bat
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Post by 2nd Bat on Jan 5, 2016 0:07:17 GMT -5
I have actual tactical maps (originals) in 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 as well as special location maps from key areas in Western Europe. My father worked for SHAEF and stored a bunch of them in his footlocker. I have maps of Normandy, holland and nearly all the military topographical maps of the ardennes campaign. I used to make copies and sell them on ebay but havent done so for years. They are War Department 1942-44 dates. Even the copies are very cool and they make cool props. My copies are on display in dozens of Museums around the world.
A sample of some of the Caption Sheets: Bastogne, Vielsalm, Malmedy, St Vith, Ste Mere Eglishe, Carentan, Ste Marie Du Mont and dozens more less recognizable locations. These show incredible detail with primary and secondary roads, streams and creek beds, individual buildings and treelines as they were at the time. A group n Belgium used them to recovery three US Servicemen who bodies had been documented but with incorrect grid lines. The contours and treelines as they were , made locating them and remedying the discrepency fairly easy.
Because of their size and when using correct paper they cost about $18.00 to 22.00 each to reproduce. Growing up with them no doubt wetted my appetite for history and all things military. PM me if youd like to pursue this further.
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