Thursday, December 31, 2009
An illustrated tutorial on making a conversion of plastic Lord of the Rings figures.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
A quick reference sheet for Games Workshop’s new War of the Ring game.
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Saturday, August 08, 2009
The Last Alliance has an article on modeling Grond, the Wolf’s Headed Ram featured in The Return of the King
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Friday, May 22, 2009
Here’s a nice set of paper model walls, columns, corners and stairs for constructing your own Mines of Moria.
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Ron Shirtz offers a great looking play map / tiles for recreating the famous battle of Balin’s Tomb from the Lord of the Rings. It’d be absolutely perfect for playing games with Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings system. The pdf file spans four full color pages that you print and glue together.
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Monday, September 22, 2008
The Chest of Colors has a tutorial on painting a plastic Lord of the Rings Gondorian. The techniques used here are useful for a variety of periods and figures.
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Thursday, April 03, 2008
Sgt. Perry’s Heroes offers a variant of the Legends of the Old West rules for miniature wargames set in the era of the Three Musketeers.
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Sunday, February 17, 2008
The One Ring site has an illustrated tutorial from EBob on building a model of Amon Hen.
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Saturday, November 17, 2007
Doug Larsen has a nice article and scenario for fighting the battle of Helm’s Deep. He has obviously spent a lot of time studying the source material for both the maps and the forces.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Ninjameister has some instructions on building the columns of Khazad-Dum our of beermats.
Now we have another good reason to go to the pub.
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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.
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