Thanks, Remy :)

I've had a lot of similar responses over on the FB Group page today. It's also been suggested that I look at Warhammer maps for inspiration. It does seem that the main link between them (since they really are very different from one another at first glance) is the lack of any bright colours. It's all grey and various different types of brown. Ruins play an important part. So Spectrum isn't the first style I would think of to do a grimdark map, just for example.

Hey, I think you might just have invented a great name for a new line of ices! :)

Now worries, Wyvern. We map, and we chat, and then we map some more ;)

Well, not exactly 'mint choc-chip', but if you want it to be so :)

But I am working on the November annual! ;)

I come up for air every now and then...

I think it was a brilliant idea, and I can see how it would halve the time taken to do a Ferraris Style map, maybe even more than that. In fact, if I could only lay my hands on that 25 hour day I had somewhere lying around this place I'd have a go myself :)