If you need electronic image versions to trace into a CC3+ map, North Carolina Maps may help, if you haven't bookmarked their site already, that is!

Quietly left without touching anything and went back to their knitting at home? 😉😁

Not sure if you've seen this FAQ post by Monsen Scott, but it may help.

Yet still no cat... 😁🐈️

Yes please, another vote in favour of having the grids as options in the final SS6 - imperial and metric!

Sure they aren't were-elks Sue? 😉

Dee-licious! 🍳

So far as I recall from modelling the 8- and 6-rad armoured cars (i.e. also from period images and information), the aerials were fixed in position, and at a height above the turrets all the time. These are the early-war "bedstead" frame aerial types, not the later war smaller "star antennae" which were retrofitted to some models, incidentally.

Oh - and belated congratulations on your ascension to Master Mapper status @Lillhans ! Very well done!

It is surprising what you can achieve with lines of very limited thickness, setting them up on their own sheet with their own effects, in CC3+. I've done this quite a few times when I needed a different shadow effect, for instance (such as when you don't always want the shadow to reflect the edge of the polygon you've drawn - just "hide" the line under or exactly along the edge of the poly). I tend not to use zero-width lines though, as they can cause their own problems sometimes (just make use of the decimal places to thin down the line). Transparency acne notwithstanding (yes, it too can be a real pain)!

It is indeed an overwhelming amount of material to handle from a full set of the current Annuals. The key thing is not to be intimidated by the magnitude of the task - easier said than done!

What I did - and I did something similar to your purchase several years ago, when there were a few fewer Annuals, and I'd only previously had the first year's set - was to print out all the PDF mapping guides, so I could see exactly what each issue was about. The finished example map, often on the last PDF page, is a useful guide to the scale, symbols and design options for those issues that deal with new mapping styles, for instance.

Then I organised the styles by type - Overland, City and Dungeon - and subtype (such as Overland styles that are suited to world or continental-scale maps, those that work well for sub-continental regional scale maps, and those that work for still smaller regional areas, for example). So now when I'm looking at trying out a new mapping style, I go through the guides for the appropriate type and scale I'm intending, and proceed from there.

Oh, and I still haven't used more than a tiny fraction of the Annual contents overall, even years down the line - plus there's always more new material on the way 😁