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mike robel

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  • Little Bighorn Battlefield Map

    For various reasons, I flew to Seattle and was able to visit the Little Bighorn as I drove back. Weather and some other issues conspired against me so I only had two hours on the battlefield. Here is a photo of me at the visitor center with the Little Bighorn Game I like best.


    This view is from Calhoun Hill to Last Stand Hill in the distance. It's kind of hard to see, but it is sort of in the center of the picture and there is a small group of trees to its left where the current cemetery is.

    The units were unable to support each other and so were all destroyed individually by the Sioux and Cheyenne.

    This is the area where I took the photo. Calhoun Hill is South and I was standing on the highest point on the hill top.


    This is the map I drew in CC3 of the same area. Due to the contour interval I selected for the map (100m vice 20m), Calhoun Hill, the small hill where the 7 is, and Last Stand Hill are all obliberated. Drawing all the 20m mines would probably overtask the software given the size of the original map to say nothing of the number of nodes required.

    I don't think I'll be going back. It's a long dang drive from Merritt Island to Billings, the most civilized city near the battlefield and back. Covid forced me to cancel my 5 - 7 day trip I had planned before. Sigh.

    MonsenLoopysueEukalyptusNowadelia hernandez
  • Cats & Maps

    Cats are one of the banes of my existance.😡

    They disrupt model building, fling my wargame pieces all over the place, and unlike children cannot bring me beer and pretzels.

    JimPOctorilla
  • Simulating a hand-drawn line

    I think all my lines look hand drawn, since I failed lines, coloring, and penmanship way back when.

    JimP
  • Panzer sample thread

    Very nice work!

    Lillhans
  • Reset Origin

    @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.

    LoopysueJimP