Friday, October 21, 2005
This free paper model of Disney’s Haunted Mansion is a tour-de-force. Even if you don’t want to download it, you need to take a look.
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Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Ok. So its not really miniatures related, but it’s still really neat. Ravensblight has a downloadable game called Midnight’s Banshee which is a cross between a board game and a foldable paper model. The goal of the game is to collect five skulls from the tombs in the graveyard. But be careful, for you never know which one contains a vampire. There’s a clever spinner under the game board which randomizes the locations of the vampires.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Germy’s World has a paper model for making your own dungeon, but what is more interesting is Victorian Cellar model that accompanies it. It’s perfect for gothic horor games as the lair of a monster, or mad scientist or cult.
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Monday, October 17, 2005
For inspiration, you can download and watch George Romero’s 1968 classic horror film, Night of the Living Dead for free.
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Sunday, October 16, 2005
Warpspawn games has a vampire hunting game called Methuselah designed to be played on a chessboard with a custom set of cards. One side plays Dracula and his minions, the other the vampire hunter and his assistants.
I think that some of the ideas could easily be lifted for use in more traditional miniatures games.
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
The Palantir website has a photo tutorial on making eerie trees. The intent is to help you build your own Fangorn forest, but you could just as easily build the creepy forest from Sleepy Hollow, or any other scary forest that you need for your horror miniatures games.
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Friday, October 14, 2005
The Gottendammerung Wierd War II Yahoo group is edicated to creating a background and ruleset for wargaming alternative World War 2 and 1930’s era pulp fiction.
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Thursday, October 13, 2005
Ravensblight has a free paper model of a hearse and coffins. Because you can have your printer resize these, they can be used for any number of scales and games.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Add a creepy cemetary to your tabletop with this paper model from Ravensblight. The file is a pdf, so you cna resize it using your printer’s control panel to make it fit whatever scale you need.
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Monday, October 10, 2005
You can add a lot of atmosphere to your horror games by decorating your tabletop with tombstones, broken fences, gallows, and other small horror vignettes. Games Workshop has a how-to article on creating some of these small set pieces.
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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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