Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Big Lee has some instructions on making smoke and flames markers for Flames of War
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Saturday, February 12, 2011
Shadowkings has a set of downloadable bombardment markers for Flames of War.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
The first of eleven parts on making a 15mm scale building. The rest are here.
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Friday, August 21, 2009
The Hobby Studios site has Flames of War tokens for units not already covered by BF or GF9.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Running a “campaign” can add context and interest to a miniature wargame. Here’s a Tobruk Desert Campaign for Flames of War.
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Sunday, April 29, 2007
For fans of 15mm World War II wargaming (especially Flames of War), here’s an article on painting a Sherman Tank.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
The Flames of War folks have an article on making barbed wire terrain pieces for your miniature wargames in 15mm.
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Thursday, August 10, 2006
Here’s one for Flames of War players who may want to pay closer attention to historical accuracy. Bill Stone offers a database of armies of World War II:
Armies of the Second World War” is an online database of day-by-day orders of battle and information about hundreds of division, brigade, and regiment-sized units in World War II. Information currently available in the database covers Commonwealth, Dominion, Colonial, Exile, and “Minor” Allied armies in Europe, Africa, and western Asia from 1 September 1939 through 7 May 1945.
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Saturday, July 15, 2006
The Flames of War site has some instructions on making dust clouds for your desert war games out of cotton balls. Their technique makes them look pretty good. You also can use the technique to make smoke counters for other games.
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Thursday, July 13, 2006
This three story european paper building model looks like it would work pretty good for 15mm miniature wargames. Players of Flames of War should take a look and see if it fits in with their tabletop layouts.
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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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