Tuesday, March 08, 2005
I bought a bunch of flat figures showing the Easter Story at a yard sale a couple of years back and am just fascinated by them. If you can get ahold of these things, they offer an entirely different painting challenge. Here’s a page with advice on painting those zinnfiguren.
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Monday, March 07, 2005
I have to admit to being very tempted to buy some of Conquest Miniatures new 500 Nations line of 28mm miniatures. Being of Cherokee descent, I have long wanted to do miniatures games of warfare between Native American warbands. If you’re also sitting on the fence about these figures, here’s a review that may help you make your decision.
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Monday, March 07, 2005
Alfred Wong has written a guide to weathering your plastic models. This is useful stuff—especially with the wide variety of resin and plasic vehicle models being used in games today.
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Monday, March 07, 2005
Here’s a photo tutorial on stripping the paint from a figure.
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Monday, March 07, 2005
Brumbaer has a couple of pages comparing the relative sizes of 10mm figures from different manufacturers. Useful stuff, if you’re looking to fill out your Warmaster armies.
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Sunday, March 06, 2005
Miniature Wargaming and Role Playing often cross over into each others’ genres. As a long-time role player, I’ve noticed miniatures skirmish games are incorporating more and more role playing elements. For those of you interested in such things, I’ve found a thoughtful blog on roleplaying called “The 20x20 Room” (if you played Dungeons and Dragons, you’ll know why its called this.)
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Sunday, March 06, 2005
Here’s a nice paper model of a fokker triplane. It could be resized to fit whatever scale you want.
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Saturday, March 05, 2005
Andy Watkins has one page set of rules for games involving Roman gladiators. You can use the fine Wargames Foundry 28mm Gladiators to fill your arena.
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Friday, March 04, 2005
Here’s a photo-essay on using a image manipulation program like PhotoShop or PhotoPaint to take a picture of a wargames miniature and merge it onto a different background. It’s a cool thing to do if you want to make it look like your minis are out wandering the forest or in a cityscape.
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Friday, March 04, 2005
Attention all fans of gaming in Colonial Africa. The Internet African History Sourcebook offers a great selection of links about Africa from Ancient to Modern times. Of particular interest is the section on “imperialism” in Africa.
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Poll #3:
Cast your vote and then join the discussion to tell us why.
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.
For pictures, visit the gallery.
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.
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