Saturday, May 10, 2008
The New York Public Library’s Uniforms Collection has its vast collection of color uniform plates for the French Army 1250 - 1806 available on line. Those dates, of course, include quite a bit of Napoleonic uniforms.
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
The Veni Vidi Vici site has some great photos of Dark Ages miniatures. I’m painting a variety of Dark Ages armies and always like to reference other peoples’ painting projects. These are really good.
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Saturday, April 05, 2008
David Rayner has produced a set of heraldic flags for 15mm English medievals wargames figures.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
The Warfare East site has a jpg image of Teutonic Knight banners to download, print and cut out.
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
Arion games offers a set of free paper miniatures of a medieval court.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
The Krigsspll.dk site offers a very large selection of downloadable flags for the Crusades. They are all very well done.
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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.
