Wednesday, May 18, 2011
The Lazy Forger has a photo tutorial on how he built a model that began life as a Google Sketchup illustration.
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Monday, May 16, 2011
A nice tutorial on sculpting and then making a mold of an urban wall.
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
Here’s a photo tutorial on basing tree armatures.
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Friday, May 06, 2011
Warartisan has an article on rigging model ships.
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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Here’s a nice photo essay on basing your figures.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Big Lee has some instructions on making smoke and flames markers for Flames of War
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Friday, April 08, 2011
“The Wargaming Site” has a tutorial on making suppression markers from felt pads.
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Tuesday, April 05, 2011
The Wargaming Site Blog has a nice photo tutorial on making barbed wire emplacements for 6mm wargames figures.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Massive Voodoo has a nice blog post on using the innards of old watches for gaming modeling. There is lots of steampunk goodness here.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
Here’s a model railroading site with some great tips on making buildings from foam core. To be honest, the level of detail here is far greater than any wargamer needs (or probably wants), but the techniques can be applied.
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Poll #3:
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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.
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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