Wim van der Luijt
Cool! (love the gun on the bench too 😄 )where can you get those mats printed?

Ken Kolenovsky
Hi Wim! I work at a print shop in Saskatoon, SK, Canada. We have a flat-bed printer that can do 6-colour (cyan, magenta, yellow, black, white and clear gloss). The vehicle images were supplied by my good friend, George Bradford. I just decided one day to try one here at work, and this is what I used. Of course these are only low-res jpgs. The real deal is high-def pdfs.

Florian Ludloff
[img1] Well done Sir! Too bad you´re living in Canada.... so shipping such a Mat would cost very much more than a mat itself....

Spanjaard
very nice

Peter Hardy
Pretty profitable business there if you wanted to get your boss to try selling them as a test. I'd take a few if you went ahead and printed some!

Rene Scheiblich
Nice Kar98! I have one in my modeling cave as well 🙂

These mats look badass. Do you print every mat with the image the customer wants or is there a catalogue? 😛

Florian, if we get enough people together here, we could share shipping costs 😄

Florian Ludloff
@ Rene: sounds good! ^^

Rene Scheiblich
Yep. But we'd need a bunch of people. Shipping fee becomes insane above 2kg!😄

Gordon Sørensen
Those look great, Ken! Need a couple "airplane themed" ones though...

John Thomas
Very cool

Wim van der Luijt
I would buy two or three for my workplace too!

Rene Scheiblich
Sounds like Mr. Ken has some extra hours to put in with that much interest! 🙂

Florian Ludloff
again: sounds good!! ^^

Ken Kolenovsky
Thanks for the comments guys! The company I work for is a custom printer so any image goes! I am currently trying the colour image box art from a Tiger 1 (Ryfield, I believe). When I get that done, I will post the results! Thanks again for the comments...stay tuned!

Olivier
Brilliant idea !

Alec K
This is pretty awesome indeed 👍

Michael Stewart
Mikey wantee!!! I live a few doors over in Ontario!! Definitely would take a handful for self and gifts to others.
Watching with hands firmly on wallet!

Rene Scheiblich
A few doors over... You guys seem to have another definition of Neighborhood😄
I'm seriously considering one or two mats myself😛
But do you know which postal service in canada ships to germany for an acceptable price? 🤔

Mike Thomas
Ken...if you could do these in car scales, 1/20, 1/24, 1/25, I could see a couple making thier way to Nova Scotia!

Peter Hardy
Made to order and a standard range? Sounds like a business proposal to me.
Rene, Rich Rene, you can afford the postage!

Rene Scheiblich
Rich? Who told you that? That guy was a filthy liar😛
Spent it all on kits and my compressor mate 😉
First search with the Canada Post gave me a whopping 100$ for a DIN A3 mat 😄

Peter Hardy
Courier then? DHL? Buy 500 and then become the European Distributor. Think big Rene!

Spanjaard
fly to Canada on holidays with empty luggage, return with it full of mats😉 and pay the holidays with the profits 😄

Logan Eden
Good Morning, Ken One has to sure like the look of these mats!!!! What colours of mats are you going with??? Once production has started, I'll take a M4A3 Sherman 105 Howitzer on a black mat. Catch Ya, Logan

Florian Ludloff
mats in "typical" colours also would be nice.... for example russian T-62 in postwar 4BO or Panther in Dunkelgelb etc.... your possibilitys are quite infinite ^^

Maarten Kruizenga
if you get some aircraft ones going..............for sure

Rene Scheiblich
A nice, comfy onlineshop for modeling accessories. Why not. Would be more relaxed than my usual dayjob I'd wager 😄
But I think Ken might be in over his head if he does the printing after-hours 🤔 😉
Typical colours... Nice idea. One PzKpfw III Ausf L on RAL8000 Grünbraun background please 😛

Ken Kolenovsky
Hi everyone! I'm still trying to book some time on our flatbed printer to test the colour mat out. We have been slammed with regular work. I'm hoping to have the colour test done for Monday or Tuesday.
@Logan Management is still trying to source a manufacturer for the blank mats. Stay tuned
@Florian and @Rene Can you imagine the controversy that would start if I did them in colours?! I bet there would be a flame war over what RAL 8000 should be, or even if the 4BO has too much olive to it! Hah, hah!

Florian Ludloff
oh.... rivetcounters....pfff..

Rene Scheiblich
Uuuh yeah I didn't consider that!😄
Black is fine then. But not too blue-ish!😛

Peter Hardy
Black works for me too! See what design you come up with first. Anything armour works for me!!!

Ken Kolenovsky
OK, I have done the colour test and everything looks REALLY awesome! This means anyone who has a colour pic that they want on a mat can do so. I am most impressed with our UV white ink. Not a hint of green on the snow sections of the mat. Now I just need management to decide what to charge for imprinting. The company I work for is also trying to source different colour blank mats as well. I will keep everyone in the loop as I get more info. I am currently working on a few more scale charts, especially for the car guys!

Peter Hardy
Thanks Ken! This will make a wonderful gift for myself!

Wim van der Luijt
Great! I'm redoing my workspace and could use 2 or 3 new mats.....keep that info coming!

Mike Thomas
Hey Ken.....any more news/progress on these mats? Haven't seen anything for awhile.

Ken Kolenovsky
Hi Mike. My company shelved the idea as there was not enough interest to generate revenue. I'm a little bummed about it, but it was their decision and I have to live with it. Sorry if I got everyone's hopes up.

Mike Thomas
Yeah, that is a bummer. Seemed like a great idea to me.