[canonuk]

Those mountains look fantastic

[MrOblongo]

Does this map cover the area to recreate the Thai vs France War in 1941??

Awesome work, absolutely outstanding, those mountains looks like real ones, very impressive.

[fabianfred]

Does this map cover the area to recreate the Thai vs France War in 1941??

Awesome work, absolutely outstanding, those mountains looks like real ones, very impressive.

Yes..it covers Thailand (south as far as Prachuap khiri khan) Burma as far west as Rangoon...and most of laos and cambodia .....into vietnam

3:4 scale.......but still good...the train from chiang mai to bangkok takes 12 hours 35 minutes .... not far off real times

the mountains are my favourite part.....in the north of thailand and burma and laos they are fantastic.....and exactly match the bumps shown on the terrain map....with the new long distance view with the 4.09 beta patch and Perfect mode they look great....going in layers and layers into the distance

[Dixiecapt]

Fantastic with the Bamboo and those Mountains! This will really bring Southeast Aisa to Life!!!

One question, and my eyes are bad, but is that Rangoon at the far left in this map?
hock:

[fabianfred]

Yes....that is as far west as I could get...but it goes more to the south now too



landing at Khorat......it is an old moated city....like Chiangmai



train busting

[fabianfred]

Banana ...Bouganvillea .... Flame of the forest



Happy thai new year......

[Cat_Mouth]

Very nice WIP.

But what happen in Thailand during WW2 ?

[panzerkeil]

sawatdi bpi mai! 8)
Looking forward to this map!
Maybe gives me some credit with my girlfriend :wink:

[fabianfred]

Very nice WIP.

But what happen in Thailand during WW2 ?

http://www.j-aircraft.com/research/Geor ... ge_war.htm

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/wwars/thai.htm

[Cat_Mouth]

OK, I know these Battles. But It's so much negligible, I ask me if you create the map only for this.

Thanks.

[fabianfred]

I wanted to have a go at map making......and since i have been living in thailand for the past 17 years thought it would be good to do it.......there is also a Thai flightsim community and some of them fly on Hyperlobby and are making their own server....

This map-making is good fun.....frustrating, but good fun.....as much as making missions is.

[Cat_Mouth]

This map-making is good fun.....frustrating, but good fun.....as much as making missions is.

Yes I know ...

[fabianfred]

I have noticed a strange thing.......some of my objects are placed very precisely in relation to some water on the map...using the map tools FMB...but when i open the map in ordinary FMB..or in game they are out of alignment...!!!

anyone else seen this problem?

[fabianfred]

Just to give an up-date about how my Burma/Thailand/Indo-china map is progressing.....

The sea now is working correctly and allows boat traffic....and I have a nice surf and sandy beaches.
The rivers are still not completed, but all the most important ones are there....Chao Praya, Menam Khong, Salaween, Menam Moon, Menam

Kok, Menam Ping,....it is very difficult to get them to follow the terrain correctly, since most of Northern Thailand, Burma, Laos, Vietnam are very

mountainous, and trying to get the rivers flowing in the valleys is an impossible task.

Thai airfields are at Chiangmai, Chiangrai, Loei, Ubon, Udon, Khorat, Takhli. Don Muang, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Kanchanaburi, Chantaburi,

Prachinburi, Petchabun, Nongkhai, Lopburi.....any important ones missing....let me know?

I want to put no more than three or four airfields in Burma and indo-china...which would be the most important for my map?

I have the following rail lines in place........ Bangkok to Chiangmai.....to Ubon.....to Nongkhai...to Kanchanaburi.....to the end of the map south of

Prachuap Khiri Khan....... any more important ones I've missed?

I need to know which lines to run in Indo-chin and Burma.......

I am still doing road construction (fortunately road and rail lines can be laid individually in the map 3D mode so I can get them to try and follow

the contours).... I am laying the road from Chiangmai to Bangkok right now....then I'll look at the one to Khorat and Nongkhai...

Please do not expect my rail and roads to be accurate in their placement....modern maps do not always accurately depict the routes used

seventy years ago.... and information for this theatre is sketchy.

Towns and Cities are being placed as I see fit...... and none of them will be of any size or highly populated with buildings.... if anyone later on,

after the map is released, plays lego and makes a nice arrangement of buildings anywhere, then we can easily incorporate them as another

edition. There are few buildings suitable for this theatre in the present Object list.

I have used suitable textures to cover the landscape and mountains, and therefore see no real need to actually put forest over 60% of the map,

which was probably jungle at that time. I intend to put forest around areas which will get the most 'close-up' views, being the airfield areas, and

towns and cities.

No Water air bases have been put on the map yet...they are easy to do ....any suggestions as to the most important ones?

Although the map is still very much WIP....if anyone who is comfortable with the MODS process of including new maps, and would like to try it

out in its present state......PM me and I'll give a link to a download.

[CzechTexan]

the University of Texas library has maps of Burma made by the US Army in 1955.
The roads and railways and airfields should be about the same as during the WW2 era.
Here is the Burma link: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/burma/
Here is the IndoChina-Thai link: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/indoc..._thailand/
Airfields covered on your slice of Burma would be at Rangoon (Mingaladon), Toungoo, near Pyinmana, Thata, and at Moulmein.
Below is the map of Rangoon area.
Notice the oil facilities and docks at Syriam/Rangoon that were bombed by RAF Liberators and US B-24s.
Two Railways from Rangoon go north to Insein and Mingaladon and then they merge together and go northwest (off map area).
Another railway goes northeast to Pegu where it splits...one goes north to Toungoo and Pyinmana and further north....and the other goes around Gulf of Martaban to Moulmein and further south.
Look for similar maps at the links above.

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