Friday, January 13, 2012
Massive Voodoo has an article on using acupuncture needles to make more realistic arrows in 28mm.
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Monday, January 09, 2012
Massive Voodoo has an interesting tutorial on modeling realistic spider webs. It makes me think of Mirkwood.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
What says Christmas more than a model train.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
I find it interesting that, after many thousands of years, tents are the still the abode of choice of the world’s armies. Here’s a post on making a modern looking field shelter.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Mitch’s Wargaming and Model Making Site has a mini series on making a Saxon house.
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Friday, December 09, 2011
Here’s a nice project that uses plywood disks from Jo Ann’s to make command stands for Black Powder.
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Friday, November 18, 2011
Model Railroaders and Wargamers share a spiritual space. Model Railroad Hobbyist Magazine is an excellent free online publication.
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Here’s a photo tutorial on cleaning, assembling and painting Khandish horsemen from Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings line. I like these sort of tutorials, even if I don’t have any use for the specific figures in question because I find I can always take away a technique or two to apply to my own projects.
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
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Friday, September 16, 2011
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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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