Sunday, July 26, 2009
A work in progress, the Lost Minis Wiki is attempting to catalog as many of the sadly-out-of-print miniatures as possible. As with any Wiki, it’s only as good as it’s contributors, however, so add to it if you can.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
The 6mm Wargaming site is a nice general site on the scale.
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Friday, July 15, 2005
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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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
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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Tuesday, December 21, 2004
About 15 years ago, I participated in a battle of Gettysburg game that was unique in a couple of ways.
First, the game was huge—the table was 30 or so feet long.
Second, it was designed to show the problems of command, control and communication: the Union and Confederate army commanders were sequestered in nearby rooms with maps and could only get their information about what was going on through written communications. The corps commanders sat on a balcony, where they could see the battlefield, but still had to communicate via written messages with the army commanders and the division and brigade commanders, who were on the floor. The brigade commanders moved the pieces, then discussed their movements with their division commanders. The division commanders sent the messages on to the corps commanders, who sent runners to the army commanders in their rooms. I was a referee, so I had the chance to see the terrible confusion at all levels. The army commanders had maps that, at the end, bore little resemblance to the actual positions of the troops on the field. At the same time, the division and brigade commanders found themselves being ordered to conduct movements that didn’t make a lot of sense ... often because they had acted on their own initiative, which left the army commanders thinking that they were somewhere they were not.
The other unique thing abot the game was that all of the figure were done in origami: blue for the union and grey for the confederates, of course. Groups of students apparently had spent months folding the things. It was absolutely beautiful. If this interests you, you could check out the instructions for 15mm folded paper figures here.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004
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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.
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