Stadium photo needed
 

I am trying to find some photos. B & W or color of some football stadiums of the 1940's. I would imagine they are pretty plain, but I have been searching and searching and I am coming up goose-eggs.

I want to have a custom board that my 1945 Army team will play on.

Does anyone have a link to a photo or two?

Or perhaps you have a picture of your game board or someone else's? Which has a grass field look and is pretty generic and might pass for a 1940's college stadium field?

Thanks in advance.

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Got My Own Creation
 

...to represent my years of 1989-1994. Not at either academy, but active duty! ;)

Thanks for the pic.

But I am trying to find a 1940's picture. A shot of Yankee Stadium lined for football would be great too.

This is the best photo I've found so far.

Boy, looks like they might not have even had numbers on the field at all.

Looks very plain.

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How's This?
 

Try this. Or I can make it anyway you'd like.

Go to www.ballparks.com ; They should have all you need.

Thanks Guys
 

Thaks guys and a special thanks to ancient8 Ken for the PM

I'll keep searching but I'm off to a great start

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Mr. Outside and Mr. Inside
 

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Thanks
 

Special thanks to all you guys who are sending me stuff

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Notre Dame vs. Army 1946
 

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well, there it is, my new custom board.

Much effort. So so results. :o Was trying hard to get a 1940's old school game worn look.

Weirdwolf spent hours on my cover design, only to have the printer totally blow it. :cool: Weirdwolf's grass got turned into one solid dark green mass by the printer. It was supposed to be a lighter olive green with grass texture and patches of darker and lighter color grass, but the printer blew it. The printer, using low quality equipment, read Weirdwolf's artwork poorly, and instead of spitting out a grass texture and design, it just merged everything and out came that color that you see. YUK. :(

The staining went easier than I thought it wood (pun intended). I had the frame made out of high end Cherry Oak and that paid off. Hard to see in the photos, but up close you can see the quality of the wood and staining.

Goal Posts and Flags were a bear, but after a lot of experimentation I finally figured out how to make those.

Fun journey.

I may yet get a new field cover some time down the road.

mtmstnks

nice looking board, how does it run? is the frame cherry, oak, red oak? i have never heard of cherry oak.

Well, thats the good news. Although I am bummed out that Weirdwolf's incredible field artwork did not come out at all, the field runs absolutely fantastic. It is smooth, corner to corner, like a sheet of glass. Extremely smooth and consistent. 22 x 44.

The field construction was done by Charles Lane. A local printer near him did the printing. Charles does not want to mass produce boards. He only wants to make a couple a year. But, IMHO, the Lane boards are the smoothest, best running, most consistent boards out there. That's not my opinion, thats the consensus of all the hall of famers down here in South Carolina. I asked them all before I started my journey, who I should go to, and they practically all said Charles Lane.

I dont know what his trick is, but they come out great, performance wise.

He also made Beenutt's Dixie League board and that is how I found out about him. I did not like the plywood that he used on the Dixie league board, so I asked him to use a higher grade of wood on my project. He said he bought, "Cherry Oak", at least that is what I thought he said. :confused:

All I can say is the wood is beautiful and it really took the Red Mahogany Minwax stain and the Polyurethane well. My camera stinks, but near the board you can see all the wood grain details.

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Red-cherry And Chalk Lines
 

Chris, I thought you did that on purpose! It looks as if REAL chalk were used.

What are the board dimensions ?

Yes, Jimbo: The chalk effect was done on purpose by Weirdwolf. What is missing is all the grass texture work he did to make it look grassy and all the color detail that he did. It is supposed to be an olive green, not that black green that you see. I wish I could upload his original artwork, but my file that he sent me, is too big. Perhaps Weirdwolf can post a smaller pic that will fit of what it was supposed to look like.

$cch$

Sideline to sideline its 22 x 44

Original artwork

Thanks Lynn

So as you guys can all see, what I got and what Lynn set up ....well, there is a huge difference.

The green color that I wanted, the grass texture, the shadowing of trampled worn grass in some areas...

None of it came through

mtmstnks

I Can Help
 

I can have my guy print it, laminate it and you spray adhesive tack to your field and put it in place. LMK.

Thanks for the offer Bro. Right now, my wallet is reeling a little bit. I'm gonna sit tight for a while. But I'll keep you in mind if I ever decide to change it out.

I've got this big dilemma on my hands now.

Looks vs. Performance.

I am afraid to mess with the cover as it plays so well right now. I am afraid by putting some sort of cover on the top of it I will lose the performance I now have.

mtmstnks

OK
 

But my intention was that you take that one off and put down a new, reusable one, or two, ala your ALL-VIKINGS!?! ;) I'll have WW send my the file and I'll do it for a future trade or something. ANYTHING for a fellow SOLDIER! We definitely gotta get a Commander's Cup Tourney going every year. I know of 3 SOLDIERS and one SAILOR, 2 JARHEADS and zero FLYBOYS. I need a reason to play on my new field!

Anyway, I served 1989-1994, including Desert SHield/Storm and did 2 years in the GREATEST beer country in the world, GERMANY! I had a 15-20 man ARMY EFL in Fort Sill, Oklahoma before the Storm, and put it away until Miggle #3 at the Chicago Hyatt. How about you?

Well, that would be awesome and awful nice of you Brother.

I have the utmost respect for you and your military background. I unfortunately never served. My father was an MP in Korea during the Korean War right near the front. He is extremely active in the VFW to this day. I grew up in a VERY patriotic household.

When we were kids, late 1960s/early 1970s, (I grew up in New Jersey), my Dad would take me and my two older brothers up to West Point to see Army football at least a couple of times every year.

My Dad, born in 1931, was a huge fan, when HE was a kid, THE TEAM that he constantly bragged about was the Army football teams of the 1940s. I have a lot of warm memories of long drives up the Hudson, and my Dad telling us about the great teams of Red Blaik.

When I found out that the boys down here in South Carolina play with college teams, well, it was a no brainer....1945 Army here I come.

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Big Franco
 

You have a nice field. I like the chalk style gridiron.

Who made your goalposts? Did you make them? Can you give me some tips on how to make them? LMK

I made the goalposts after seeing the awesome work of Butch Carter up close and personal. I would be happy to walk you through the steps. Call me anytime. 843-822-5280.

Please send me a PM on how make the goalposts
 

Since you live in South Carolina (SC is South Carolina, right?) and I live in California, perhaps you could send me instructions in a PM. I appreciate your help. My wife might get suspicious if she looks at our phone bill and see calls made to SC. Then I would be in the dog house. mtmstnks

Son Of A...
 

...SOLDIER!!! That's good enough for me! :rolleyes: I'll talk to WW after Miggle, besides my printer is still out of laminant, so my other 2 jobs are on hold as well. I'll just throw this one on queue along with them.

PM me your number and I will call you. Have her answer the phone when you see the 843 so she knows its a guy. ;)

Its really too much to type in a PM.

sweet

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