Tuesday, August 02, 2005
The Alternate Realms site has several nice cardstock buildings, including some huts and a chapel. The page also has a couple of tanks and a science fiction walker vehicle. Finally, there’s a model of St Michaels tower on Glastonbury Tor (sp?).
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Friday, July 15, 2005
(click on any of the pictures to see a larger version)
There’s a lot to like about Black Tree Designs’ newest release, “The Dwarf Slayers of Dragon’s Peak.”
From a painter’s point of view, I found the figures a delight to work with. There was virtually no flash on the figures, and only minimal mold lines—a couple of swipes with an exacto blade, and they were ready to go.
The sculpting also worked to make them very easy to paint. All of the areas were very clearly defined (there is nothing I hate more than having to stare at a figure for fifteen minutes trying to figure out what’s what.) I finished the sample figure above in about fifteen minutes. If you were painting a regiment for gaming purposes, you could do a lot of these in a relatively short period of time.
Continued...
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Thursday, April 21, 2005
I’ve been working, off and on (more off than on) on a couple of 15mm fantasy armies for some time now. I got them out and started working on them again after being inspired by the figures in this gallery.
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Monday, April 18, 2005
Glorantha is a classic fantasy world created by Greg Stafford that is featured in role-playing games like RuneQuest and HeroQuest.
Greg Privat has created a website with pictures of wargames miniatures painted to represent various armies from the Gloranthan setting. Many of the models are conversions from ancients ranges, particularly Foundry and Gripping Beast; others are rare and obscure models, conversions and scratchbuilds.
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Thursday, April 14, 2005
Gabrielle Zunino offers a set of random events cards for WizKids’ Mage Knight collectable miniatures game.
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Saturday, January 08, 2005
I got the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition DVDs for Christmas and have been spending my (free) time rewatching the trilogy. This, of course, has caused me to restart work on some Lord of the Rings stuff. I think a neat little game could be had in doing a Fellowship versus the Watcher in the Water scenario at the gates to Moria. This site has some instructions for building your own set of tentacles.
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Poll #1:
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.
