Friday, October 20, 2006
Gothic Horror Figures Gallery
19th Century, Horror
Here’s a fine gallery of Gothic Horror figures from Witchhunter.net
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Friday, October 13, 2006
1878 Barge Paper Model
19th Century, Paper Figs Terrain, VSF
In 1878, a specially designed barge was built to ferry an obelisk from Egypt to England. It was a Victorian era media event, as it took more than a year to complete the journey. Here’s a paper model of the very unusual “Cleopatra” barge.
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Legends of America Travel Site
19th Century, Early 20th C
The Legends of America travel site has hundreds of photos of interesting American places. There some especially interesting ones of THe Old West and sites along Route 66.
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Sunday, September 24, 2006
The Four Eyed Dog Is Dead Tai Ping Rebellion Rules
19th Century
The Tai Ping Rebellions (1851 - 1864) is by some accounts, the worst conflict in human history. Various estimates have put the total casualties at between 50 and 200 million (if you include the various war-complicated natural calamities that occurred during the time). The civil war was fought between the Quing Empire and the followers of a mystic named Hong Xiuquan, a Christian convert who had claimed that he was the new Messiah and younger brother of Jesus Christ.
The Four Eyed Dog Is Dead is a set of simple and free wargames rules for gaming this conflict.
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Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Great Paraguayan War Painting Guide
19th Century
Buenos Aires Minis has a painting guide for The Great Paraguayan War.
The Great Paraguayan War—also known as the War of the Triple Alliance—is one of the most underrated conflicts of the western hemisphere. Fought between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, the war lasted from 1864 to 1870. Fought over control of the River Platte region, the war ended in complete defeat for Paraguay. The coutry lost between 50% and 90% of its pre war population during the conflict.
That’s right. As many as nine out of ten people of the population of Paraguay died through war and disease.
Wow.
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Friday, June 02, 2006
Witchtown Tales Site
19th Century, Wargaming Sites
The genius painter who brings us Witchhunter and Back of Beyond Times now has launched Witch Town Tales, a site with photos of his Old American West figures.
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Thursday, May 18, 2006
Paper Western Figures
19th Century, Paper Figs Terrain
If you’ve wanted to try out some of the outstanding western games that are in print these days, but don’t hvae the figures, you could download and print these sheets of 19th century western gunfighters, animals and other assorted things.
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Sunday, February 26, 2006
Plains War Photos
19th Century, Colonials
I’ve got some photos up from our Plains War batttle last night. The Cavalry was charged with relieving a homestead from a group of attacking Indians. The figures in the photos are all from Wargames Foundry.
We used the Warhammer Historicals Legends of the Old West rules for the game. It was our first time playing them, and I thought that they were a lot of fun. Very simple to learn, and they had the right feel.
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Game of Victorian Manners
19th Century
Think you know how to be a victorian? Then try this interactive game in which you try to negotiate your way through the tricky world of Victorian manners. Its wierdly fun.
I would never have made it in the Victorian world.
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Sunday, January 29, 2006
British Name Generator
19th Century, Colonials, VSF
To do a proper Victorian science fiction game, you’ve got to have characters with very British names. This site will help you out by generating proper british names.
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