URBAN MAMMOTH LTD ACQUIRES I-KORE BRANDS AND IPRAll i-Kore Ltd Intellectual Property Rights, along with all relevant assets, brands, trademarks, copyrights, domains etc. have been acquired by Urban Mammoth Ltd... (more)
So they're back in business. And the guys that run Urban Mammoth are veterans of an "incestuous" industry (to quote John Robertson), having also been involved in previous efforts at the late i-Kore, Fantasy Forge, Grendel, and Target Games.
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Nothing completes a unit of miniature figures as much as a good command stand. The only problem is that I hate to paint flags. And commercially sold flags are too expensive for my tastes. Fortunately, there is a solution: Warflag. I don't know what drives this guy, but he has created a huge set of professionally drawn flags for Napoleonics, the American Revolution, colonials, medievals, the 7 Years War and more! Just download them and print them on a color inkjet.
Warflag
I use this x-acto tool for cutting formcore to construct buildings for my miniature wargames. You can see a few examples here. The tool makes cutting perfectly straight lines 90 degree lines quick and easy. The only problem is that form core very quickly dulls the blades, so keep a good supply on hand.
X-Acto Board Cutter at Dick Blick art supplies.
Turnsignals on a Land Raider is a very funny, very professionally done cartoon satire of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40K. The strip focuses on a newly recruited group of plastic figures from "The Emperor's Pointy Sticks" chapter of Space Marines. There currently are 57 strips, with more promised several times a week.
Turnsignals on a Land Raider
Interest in miniature wargames featuring recent US conflicts in Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq are on the rise. Earthquake has a neat guide to painting Rangers from the "Black Hawk Down" battle. These are Brittania 20mm figures. I just bought a box of 25mm / 28mm Devil Dog Design figures from Brigade, so I'll be using these instructions soon.
Planetary Icosahedrons
Fold your own planets for use with space fleet miniatures games such as Battlefleet Gothic or Full Thrust. Although these are designed specifically to look like the planets in the solar system, they're in jpg format, so they could easily be photoshopped.
Miniature Wargaming is part of the "adventure games" hobby, which includes r ole p laying and board games. Wargamers recreate battles on the tabletop with toy soldiers, like a more complicated game of chess. Models range in height from 6mm to 28mm tall, with 15mm and 25mm being the most popular. There also is a growing interest in toy soldiers and military models, such as the 1/32 and 1/35 scale plastic soldiers from Conte, and Marx.
The most popular miniature wargames are fantasy and science fiction based, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine and The Lord of the Rings. World War II games such as Flames of War and Axis and Allies are new favorites. Other favorite historical periods include Napoleonics, the American Civil War, and ancients, such as Romans or Greeks. Other gamers enjoy miniature naval wargames, recreating battles like Trafalgar, Jutland and the Coral Sea.
Hobbyists research historical periods and paint their tiny soldiers in accurate uniforms. Others develop "historically realistic" rules sets or build scale battlefield terrain using model railroad techniques.
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Some of the bigger hobby companies are Games Workshop, which produces Warhammer, Wargames Foundry and Old Glory Miniatures. Wizards of the Coast produces several lines of pre-painted miniatures games, such as the Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures games, and a historical game with pre-painted miniatures: The new Axis and Allies game. Wizkids produces a fantasy collectable miniatures game, such as the Mage Knight and Heroclick fantasy games, the science fiction games MechWarrior and Rocketmen, as well as the quasi-historical Pirates of the Spanish Main.
I use this x-acto tool for cutting formcore to construct buildings for my miniature wargames. You can see a few examples 
Fold your own planets for use with space fleet miniatures games such as Battlefleet Gothic or Full Thrust. Although these are designed specifically to look like the planets in the solar system, they're in jpg format, so they could easily be photoshopped.
