That subcontinent reminds me somewhat of the aliens in the movie Independence Day.

@Lillhans Geeze. You are a genius. I have trouble enough just trying to duplicate topographical maps for wargames. It's a good thing contour lines are not straight or gentle curves, cause I can't draw straight lines without a ruler or graceful curves with a French curve, even assuming I don't slip. Exceptional and very artistic work.

I also wish I could punch Like, Awesome (a word which is overused today), and Insightful all in the same post.

I myself frequently use Brute Force and Ignorance (BFI) to get through my map making!

When I looked at this, I thought it was something @JimP @Quenten or @Loopysue would do. It's really cool, no?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Sue,

I'm just agog! I really like the night time one, but I understand the limitations. But what about cloudy/dreary effects. You know those days with slate gray, low-lying clouds, the sun unable to burn through the clouds. The wind falling not up to down, but north to south in 40 mile an hour winds, with 6 inch clumps of snow hitting you in the ear when you take off your helmet, making you lose your balance and falling off your tank into the deep carpet of snow, thus avoiding injury?

Some people see fun in the snow. All I see is misery (and Missouri [a state I dislike]) and foot slogging.

Well, you could call Kinkos and see how much they charge for the map.

I recently bought a custom map from mytopo.com of the Little Bighorn area that was about 4x5 feet with grid lines and elevation shadows for 29.95. Satellite photographs are more, around 100. A combination contour map was 79.95 and was nice to look at, but hard to read.

Incredibly to me, the. Company lets you download a full size PDF and save it so you can print it yourself. So does the national geologic service and their maps run 9-15 bucks.

For physical objects, there is an informal rule of thumb of three times the cost of materials

One has to think of the amount of time you put into it.

My daughter charges people by the square inch for paintings. 0.50 for her friends and 1.00 for others. Larger paintings can be more.

You can go to the wargame vault. They printout digital maps and you can see what they charge.

I find it difficult to price my games because volume is low and I am not well known.

Hope this helps.

While this isn't really a show and tell topic, I think it belongs here more than the other categories. This is a blog entry on Boardgamegeek.com in which the author talks about the game maps he likes along with some details. Perhaps it can serve for inspiration. Many different styles and a few look like they may have been done with CC.

enjoy

@Loopysue Thanks. I'm mystified by that behavior. It doesn't seem to happen all the time.

@JimP Thanks, too. I tried that and it seemed to work, but then the Import File thing did its thing.

Nothing to see here. Not the Droids your are looking for. Move along. Move along.

Looking at it I think it is either "VGER" from Star Trek The Motion Picture or the new mounting for the evil eye thing in Lord of the Rings after the volcano blew up and in the 5372 sequel, it was built by an evil sect of cartographers seeking to redesign the world.