The Wake Island Check Your 6! project has been sitting around for a few years now. I went ahead and ordered Brewster Buffalos from Pico Armor to use in some hypothetical scenarios. A squadron of Marine Brewsters (VMF-221) were on the Saratoga and dispatched to reinforce the atoll. Things of course did not shake out that way, but could make for some fun games. Still need to ship them off for painting!
I will still need to purchase a sea mat with 1.5 inch hexes, which I think I will obtain from Deep Cut Studio. A friend ordered a desert mat from them recently, with hexes superimposed, and it looks rather nice. Deep Cut, although based in Lithuania, has great turnaround time to the U. S., and their custom work is nice (I had a custom sized mat made for Wings of Glory).
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| Sample image from Deep Cut Studio website |
Another addition was a Fight's On Wake Island terrain piece (Fight's On now owned by I-94 Enterprises). It should not take long to paint, but I want to wait until I receive my ocean mat so I can match the colors outside the atoll with the mat.
Update: Well, I got tired of making a decision to order the sea mat, and decided to paint the atoll. Needs a little touch up after first coats, but just about complete. The center of the lagoon should be lighter and with more of a turquoise color, but this works as a gaming piece. And I finally ordered the mat from Deep Cut!
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I have also started to put together a few Wake scenarios, some historical, some historical but with some what-ifs thrown in. Might get a half dozen or so scenarios completed when all is said and done.
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