Friday, August 08, 2008
Making A Wall Mounted Folding Table
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Here’s a tutorial on making a wall mounted, folding wargames table. It’s a neat idea.
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Friday, August 08, 2008
Here’s a tutorial on making a wall mounted, folding wargames table. It’s a neat idea.
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Friday, July 04, 2008
Days of Wonder’s Battlelore has lots of fiddly bits that need organizing. The BattleBox project offers pdf downloads for a series of foldable storage boxes.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Whamodyne has some instructions on making a set of solid brass six sided dice. They actually are extruded hexagons. A very clever project.
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Friday, April 28, 2006
The Perfect Captain’s Battle Finder is a set of 64 cards—done in the usual high quality graphics—that you use to generate terrain for your miniature wargames battles. There also are rules for using the cards to create linear campaigns, and maneuver campaigns using the downloadable force counters, order and control markers. There are even revenue and siege rules.
Truly innovative stuff, and something that I’m going to use almost immediately.
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Friday, March 17, 2006
For role playing games and truly 1-1 scale skirmish games, here is a random hit location chart.
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Sunday, January 08, 2006
WeeToySoldiers has an article explaining how to turn an old cd rack and cases into an adjustable miniatures storage system. It is a simply brilliant idea.
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Poll #1:
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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.