[viking4570]

Links work now. Thanks for sharing your work with us. Making those starter maps are the most difficult for me. Using dial-up internet at home it's too slow for all the big files. I occasionally use a friend's high-speed net to download large files.
Populating and texturing a map is really the easiest BUT most time consuming operation.

Poltava, just jump right in on a small map and try it out. If you're a creative type person (which I know you are from your mission building skills) then you'll really enjoy it. And you get satisfaction from others who enjoy your work as well. A small map like Timor or some other island or jungle type place would be easy to populate and texture. There are relatively few towns/villages and it's mostly rural jungle area.

+1, Poltava - Populating a map is really no different than creating a mission in the FMB - please, your skills would be much appreciated. That goes for you, too, Saburo Sakai. Cheers - viking