Friday, July 24, 2009
Periscopes are a terrific tool for checking line-of-sight in skirmish games. Here’s a set of instructions for making a “disguised” periscope.
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
Terragenesis has a good illustrated article on making wooden crates for 25mm / 28mm gaming.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Pirates are my next big project, so I was happy to find that Cianty’s Tabletop Wargames Blog has an article on sources for pirate ships for gaming.
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Sunday, June 28, 2009
Make magazine (I subscribe—it’s one of the coolest magazines ever) has a blog post on making miniatures out of Shrinky Dinks.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
CG Textures has a terrific collection of textures you can download and use to design your own paper buildings. There area bricks, doors, windows and more. I’m going to use them to create some photorealistic 15mm buildings for an upcoming zombie game.
Thanks to reader Troy for the tip!
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
Terragenesis has an inspirational little piece on cobbing together bits to make neat looking science fiction big guns and artillery pieces.
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
The Mordheim In Montana blog has a nice series of articles on making a dice tower.
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009
The Toy Soldiers Forever blog has a video on proper techniques for casting your own toy soldiers from pewter. He also suggests some cheap sources of the metal.
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Monday, May 04, 2009
If you’ve ever bought a pack of 25mm chariots and wondered how—in the absence of instructions—you’re supposed to put all of those pieces together, here’s the page for you. It’s a set of illustrated instructions for building chariots.
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Thursday, April 02, 2009
My gaming buddies laugh at my scratch building efforts—gaming terrain made of everything from scrap plastic to pasta. But I’ve never attempted anything like this: Minas Tirith made from more than 3 million matchsticks.
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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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