How about a modified version of Autofahrt: 'Panzerfahrt' with slightly modified rules?

The board could look similar, but add explosions, dying soldiers, and Panzer-division Standarte & medals, etc.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panzer_badge.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bat_Standarte_Panzer_T.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Panzer_III

Autofahrt has the most amusing name (yes, childish I know!), but it is perhaps a bit too generic to act as a jokey prop?

Or do the production leaders want a selection of non-war-related board games too?

"Reise durch Deutschland" is the prettiest of these, it reminds me a bit of the classic Finnish board game Afrikan Tähti.

How about something like this for the airplane?

http://www.wreckamovie.com/shots/show/5328

Thanks Carl, could you let me know what Dominoes are in German as well please.

Created a Mühle board texture for the bottom of the chess/checkers set.

So the orgional board will be left alone and then a second board with Mühle will be created.

Then ill create a third board and create a second bevel for the bottom but not as deep this time, with both the Mühle board and also the checkers board opposite each other.

Games Germans play on this board are Schach (Chess), Dame (checkers), and usually Mühle is printed on the back side.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BChle_(Spiel)

http://www.yoomcom.de/images/7349b.jpg

the plane is awesome, cant wait to see the board in total with all the pieces

The new aeroplane is up which is positioned upright from the back with a pole keeping it up. What do you think to that? Is that better?

Glad you like my work. :) Only started doing 3d graphics and this sorta thing about a half and half ago, possibly a few months more.

@Sami - LOL!!!

@Angela - Glad you like it, i was unsure how many steps it needed but i just did the amount to look about right.

@Markus - Ill just add them to another post and then we can talk over on that one then or just keep posting on this one about the other posts images.

I would create a zip file off them all and just do that but for some reason it wont upload a .zip.

Matti has just asked me to do abit more on the dominoes then ill continue work on the chess set. :)

These look friggin great. I'm sure you can add the other snapshots to a new shot, if need arises. Otherwise I'd already start communicating with Matti about where to post them for final use =).

Absolutely love that watch-tower...

ONLY IN

IRONSKY : OPERATION HIGHJUMP.

The only chess game in the world that requires air traffic control :)

A sea-mine now added that Sami wanted. :)
Quite easy to do. Deleted the old fashioned canon because your only allowed to upload 8 things at once.

About the plane, i have done no wheels and fitting it on is a problem. The Zeppelin was also an issue but i just made it higher so it could fit above all the rest.

I could make it have a bad landing, the only thing would be the detail on the propellers would be partly missing then. However, it might be more of an appropriate angle to see the steering wheel and seat inside, if you squint your eyes you might see it on that render.

Nice work, love the plane.

Will that plane fit on the board? Maybe you need a carrier version and tilt up the wingtips (BF-109 T - 0 Which apparently never flew)

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g51/Jan-Paul/Bf109%20models/109t-3d.jpg

This doesn't take care of the tail thou, maybe a bad landing and the tail is pointing the sky :)

Areoplane and v2 rocket now added. :)

Thanks for the feedback, does anyone think a nazi flak spotlight would be of use? Follow the link for the type im on about.

http://www.ww2incolor.com/german-artillery/Scheinwerfer+zur+Fliegerabwehr+Jan.html

The cannon might be in RUST SKY II - The nazi pirates :)

Otherwise, nice job on the zeppelin and the tower.

Just found out that the source i used was invalid about the canon's, i thought it was right because it was a document. But they wouldnt have access to the canon balls and powder from medieval times anyway i wouldnt have thought.

Yh, i am going to do proper artillery like the one you linked to, just that some of the castle that the german occupied during the war used the canons that was there in that style that i modelled.

Doing motorbike next then the artillery.

Nice!
@cannon -this may be more authentic:
http://www.rappelkiste-spielwaren.com/images/produkte/i10/1008-1.jpg

More interesting references: http://preview.tinyurl.com/google-geschuetz-image-search

Ok then, let us know what you think to the canon, zeppelin and watch tower. Tried to be authentic as possible while keeping poly count down. Used same texture as all the rest.

Also tried doing Hitlers bust (head and shoulders) but didnt work as characters are hard to create realistically unless experinced in that area of modeling and im not.

Im planning on doing the following time and chances of usage permitting. They could be used in officiers rooms though if not on the chess set so ill send them all in anyway. :)

Small aircraft
Proper artillery
Motorbike
Half tank (May also create a higher poly version to be used on the surface level if no-one else wants to)
U -boat (if someone could find a side profile in wireframe that would be helpful)
Tiger Tank
V2 - Rocket (& Frame posssibly).

Whee! \o/ Cannot wait!

Cool, then it would match in with the film and possible motorbikes on set.

Quick update while im posting. Done a watchtower and not far off a zepplin. Thought id start with the easy ones. :)

I personally was thinking about one with a sidecar, like in the trailer.

Angela and Sami, did you mean just a standard bike or one with a side car like on the iron sky trailer?

I was just thinking because if that is the sort that is going to be on the game they would need to have the same design i would have thought.

Sounds like a good plan to me! Looking forward to see them! 8)

Cool, well there has been alot of feedback there! And this is how i think im gonna do it, ill do several pieces from all various suggestions that people have. And then ill post them online within a few days and then you can decide which pieces you like best and which piece they should represent then.

If anyone has any better ideas then let me know. :)

Revised suggestion with more recognizable pieces:

King: Big Tank
Queen: Airplane (Stuka?)
Bishop: Cannon / artillery
Horse: Bike
Tower: A watch-tower 8)
Pawns: Soldiers

Never played Fallout, but done a quick google search and that could be quite useful, im not sure wether the production team are having stats for your character, but it is certainly a side quest to always have a go at. The only other query would be weather you could access older levels once you completed them or would you have to reply that level.

However, if older side mission where still available then they would have to stay open given the opportunity to collect the pieces.

So if they were going to be used as collectables it would need to be a general set unless it was a mission that was specific to a character to find his missing chess set or something.

Ive emailed Matti Delahay and asked him to clarify a few things so then ill know which to model.

The offer is still open for other to do some modeling as well on this task. :)

"Queen: Göring "

Hahaha...

Cannot resist giving a shot at this too...

King: Hitler
Queen: Göring
Bishop: Goebbels
Horse: Soldier on a bike
Tower: A big cannon / artillery
Pawns: Regular soldiers

Btw. these pieces could be used as collectibles, when they could have more detail.

Think bobbleheads from Fallout.

Cool, well ill try to model some of those ideas then and ill post some more images online.

If someone else wants to model the pieces i could email them the .blend of the board that i have set up and we could do different sets :)

sorry about the cat. Didn't see it there at the first time :)

Of course from the board game point of view it would be nice to tell the pieces apart, but if we would like to joke about the nazi likings to details, then Operation Highjump point of view the main pieces could be

U-boat with a periscope
U-boat without a periscope
U-boat with torpedo hatches open
U-boat with a captain on the tower
U-boat with a torpedo coming out of one of the tubes

:D

I do realize that the models should be made with as few faces as possible, but you don't have to model every piece of the track separately in a tank.

http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/play-houses/cat-playhouse-cardboard-tank-cat-toy-by-cat-playhouse.asp

I like the different versions for the navy and such, however from a modeling point of view, if i created battleships, i would need a lot of vertices to create it in enough detail for it to be recognizable as that type of battleship.

Tanks would also have a similar problem to get all the detail on the tracks as i have created a basic tank before in Blender.

The Me - 262 i do like as the queen though.

I do all those ideas though. :) Cheers!!

Just thinking from playing the game point of view though. Would it be better to have the pieces easily recognized differently, or to have a themed set more specifically?

If their was going to be an officier specifically from the Luftwaffe then a set could be done to suit him, and you never know, their could be a storyline about this special set of his going missing and you have to get it back. (An idea for someone if they want)

Any ideas off of that that you think?

I actually changed aeroplane into a rifle at the last moment.

There might be different themes about the major pieces

Luftwaffe

tower = V2-rocket
horse = V1-rocket
bishop = an aeroplane small Stuga
king = a Zeppelin
queen = A nazi-ufo or Me - 262

Heer

tower = half track truck
horse = motorcycle
bishop = kubbelvagen
king = tank Tiger
queen = tank Panther

Kriegsmarine

tower = U-boat
horse = sea mine
bishop = A torpedo boat
king = A battleship Bismark
queen = A battleship tirpiz

I like the idea of more iconic objects, however would this idea suit?

Tower = tank
Horse = motorcycle
Bishop = v2 rocket
King = Zeppelin
Queen = ?

A nazi ufo seems to not suit the rest of the pieces in my view, however it is a good suggestion.

Any more ideas to suit those brought together?

I think Sami's idea is better for chess, objects that are instantly recogniseable.

Markus' suggestion for using particular people might be more suited to playing cards? :)

How about clean forms :

tower = V2-rocet
horse = a motorcycle
bishop = a rifle
king = a zeppelin
queen = A nazi-ufo

The horse could be an airplane, the king Hitler, the queen Eva Braun, the bishop Goebbels, the tower a tank. I think the swastika-pawns work great too =).

I think Churchill would work best as he had such a distinctive appearance, he was iconic. Other Allied leaders such as Roosevelt aren't as immediately recognisable (though of course if it's a whole shooting range you could put them all on there, De Gaulle would be another obvious candidate).

Now I am thinking of bored nazi soldiers throwing darts at captive penguins. Sadly, including such an act in the game may somewhat enrage the PETA folks...

Unless the penguins get mad, turn into zombies, and eventually attack the soldier, eating their brains!

Hmm. What if this was some kind of nightmare a soldier may have?

The darts sound good, perhaps you could have a photo of Churchill on the dartboard? (This is a Nazi base, after all)

Yeah, that was the title of the original article I copied the shot from, although I later decided it was a bit too long and needed editing. ^^'

Ha ha ha, didn't this shot have a different name earlier? Something like "Destroy Britain From The Sea!"

Well I suppose you've had to endure enough jokes about Italy's war record... ;)

Serious feedback though, this game is interesting because it is an example of anti-Allied propaganda which predates the Nazis. It shows how long term the enmity between the UK and Germany was, there were two generations of Germans raised believing Britain was a threat.

And it does look very war-like, so it is suited to this task.

That's... and forgive me for saying that... just SO Finnish I truly had to laugh out loud because of it. ^^

Well, you're assuming that trademark owners have common sense. ;)

Unfortunately they're mostly control freaks who don't care whether they benefit from something or not. :/

There was a case here in Finland recently where a sponsor sued a hot air balloon group because they carried on using the sponsor's logo even when the sponsorship elapsed.

True about the trademark issue. Although it could also be seen as a good thing (free publicity) when one makes sure it is known the game was not approved of by the nazi leaders?

Hmm... it looks good and iconic, but may lead to legal problems due to the trademarks still being active.

A parody might be acceptable though?

Interesting to hear about the "special edition" made by British intelligence, they seemed to be a real life James Bond factory during the war.

I suppose in a way you could see this as a reminder of home? The greenery, animals and traditional clothing?

Well, it *is* a classical board game. There may be some bored and somewhat childish soldiers entertaining themselves with it... ^^

I had that boardgame too, the curvy one at the bottom. I think it was a traditional game in Britain in the late Victorian era, perhaps borrowed from Germany or vice versa.

Regarding its use in ISOH, it looks very pretty but is perhaps too childish for a base entirely made up of soldiers? (I'm assuming there are no families in Antarctica?)

Mind you, I just realized my grandmother owned a very, very, VERY old "Mensch ärgere dich nicht" game which we played as kids when visiting her... although in Italian that was called "Non t'arrabbiare". XD

Sounds like a plan! Adding this to my to-do list, I am! ^^

Angela, could you do a version of Ludo but with its traditional swastika shape emphasised and nazified somehow? Ludo is a very old game that was around and popular at the time of the game, and the joke would be immediately obvious to anyone who knows the real game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludo_%28board_game%29

I think I would just *love* to try and draw an original nazi board game... but someone needs to give me specific ideas as to which game to tweak...

Oooh, I feel the tingling of inspiration, too. Gotta think about this one...

Yeah, this would actually match the ink colours of the Operation Highjump comic too, so it would all tie in.

Actually... that gives me an idea...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleships_(game)
invented in early 1900s, never patented.

Hmm... I dunno, Risk seems slightly too modern, at least to me.

Having said that, it was released just ten years after the game's setting, so maybe it might work?

Battleships with UFOs etc seems a better bet, also because it's a better-known game too (and I assume fewer potential legal complications in using it).

Some version of Risk makes perfect sense to me. ^_^

German for Dominoes is 'Domino' (from Latin).
"Spielen wir Domino?" Let's play dominoes?
(more like 'Shall we play dominoes?')
"Reichen Sie mir bitte die Schachtel mit den Dominos" Will you please hand me the box of dominoes? (formal)
"Reichst Du mir bitte die Domino-Schachtel?" Will you please hand me the dominoe-box? (personal)
"Finger weg von den Dominos!" Keep your fingers away from the dominoes!
"Stellen Sie bitte den letzten Domino-Stein an das Ende." Please put the last dominoe (stone) onto the end. (standing, laying down would be 'Legen Sie bitte...")

You just have to have a "falling domino" scene, where the player must resist the will to push over the domino line.

If the player can not, there will be something at the end of the line. What? A bomb, lighter, a funny note, a player play button that gives an important clue.

Ok, creating the blue set with all the dots on for a complete 28 set.

Also creating a wooden box and could do with an accurate German Translation of Dominoes. Un sure wether its the same or not, and so wether its Die or a suffix infront of it. Thanks in advance. :)

I think I changed my mind entirely and love the black ones most now that I've seen them all with the white dots.

Sorry, no idea how to get rid of them. Most people never even notice them.

Thanks, never done alpha layers before so if thats the reason then thats ok. Do you know a site that will show me how to get rid of it?

The "white lines" are a pseudo effect of the background used. They're not actually there, but they seem to be.

And yes, they all look good.

Posted a blank - three domino of each and then the overall one shows all the blank numbers as you can tell. :)

Let me know if you can see the white outline on each of the dots because i'm unsure wether its me being a perfectionist or there is a white line actually there.

Thanks for the feedback!

Ill be posting the dotted ones within the next day but having some issues with white outlines.

That's a pretty good point, indeed...

I used to have some old dominoes and the third one definitely looks most traditional.

The second and first ones look nicer to modern eyes, but they would be less authentic to the period perhaps?

Cool, well for the dots, ive used alpha layers so the texturing will show through whichever i want it to, but yes the second does suit alot more in my view as well, but the third is a traditional set that was around in WW2.

When i get the dots on properly ill post them up.

Have to go with Markus here, like the second best too.

I like the middle one most due to its "cool" feel. We are in the arctic regions of the world afterall.

Great reference material there! Fun fun fun!