Friday, February 05, 2010
This is more than a little off the beaten track, but I just loved this project for turning your board games into wall art - storage units.
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Saturday, January 09, 2010
Free Documentaries dot Org might just be the thing if you’re tired of the endless episodes of “Modern Marvels” and Men versus Tree.
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Not free, but worth passing on. Here’s Hasbro’s web page for replacement parts for games.
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Painting by Robert Blair from the US Army Military History Site
Here’s a nice Christmas story from WWII. This site has some WWII Christmas pictures. Here is an account of the Christmas Truce of 1914
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Here’s a free war movie soundtrack for you to listen to while painting your figures. It’s apparently from a never-released movie called Tobruk.
Thanks to reader FNH for the heads up.
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009
The US Department of State offers an online outline of US History textbook.
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Saturday, November 21, 2009
Monster Manual from Dan Meth on Vimeo.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Battlegames is an excellent commercially produced wargames magazine, and for their third anniversary, they’re giving away an 82 page pdf that contains a selection of articles from issues 1 - 18. The cover is humorously labeled No Charge!
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Sunday, March 08, 2009
Skankgame offers a good article about stretching your gaming dollars. Good advice in these hard economic times.
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Here’s an interactive site that maps out history’s greatest journeys, from Magellan to Kerouac.
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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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