Monday, November 06, 2006
“Pulp” adventure is one of the biggest current themes in miniature wargaming. Here’s a site with a selection of classic pulp stories for you to read online.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Here’s a set of color 25mm 28mm paper miniatures for Pulp Era action, including male and female heroes, and ape boy, sidekicks, Nazis, river pirates, crocodile warriors and a giant crocodile.
How can you go wrong with this?
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Saturday, October 21, 2006
TableTop Terrain has a creepy little scenario designed for the .45 Adventures miniatures game that takes place in the Cairo Museum of Antiquities. There’s also a report on a followup game that involves Nazi Zombies.
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Saturday, October 14, 2006
Mike Edwards offers a 1/250th scale paper model of a coastal freighter. It’s of 1960s or 1970s vintage, but to my eye, could be used for somewhat earlier periods.
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006
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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Wednesday, June 07, 2006
I know that it doesn’t have anyting to do specifically with Miniature Wargaming, but Pulp gaming is on the rise, and I’ll bet that there are many of you out there who love the series as much as I do. Here’s a page with a timeline of Tarzan’s life. Born in 1888, he has his last known adventures in 1946.
Long Live the Lord of the Jungle!
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Pulp Avengers is a sourcebook for role playing in the 1930s and 1940s. It’s perfect for providing a realistic background for your games of the Pulp era.
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Friday, March 03, 2006
Dirty 30s is a sourcebook for role playing games set in the 1930s. It has a timeline and notes on fashion, slang, prices, jazz, Natiz, Commies, the Mafia, wars, Airships, weapons, cars, ships trains, art, architecture and more.
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Thursday, March 02, 2006
The Edgar Rice Burroughs Atlas is a collection of maps—taken from books, magazines and comics—of Tarzan’s africa, Barsoom, Pellucidar, and other lands of ERB’s creation.
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Thursday, February 02, 2006
The Library of Congress has an amazing collection of COLOR photographs from Imperial Russia at the turn of the century. The page explaining how these color photos came to be is in and of itself worth a visit.
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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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