Saturday, July 15, 2006
The Flames of War site has some instructions on making dust clouds for your desert war games out of cotton balls. Their technique makes them look pretty good. You also can use the technique to make smoke counters for other games.
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Saturday, July 08, 2006
The Curdled Milk Site has some instructions for building swamp bases for your miniatures. It should be particularly useful for those Lizardmen Warhamer armies.
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Saturday, July 01, 2006
Here’s a unique how-to article on turning a Dollar Tree squirtgun into a science fiction speeder.
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Monday, June 26, 2006
Cork is a neat substance that can be used to simulate a variety of terrian types. Mike Pierce has a tutorial on using cork to base your miniatures.
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Sunday, June 18, 2006
Ryan Scow has a tutorial on how to make balsa strips look like timbers for use in models of half timbered houses, stairs and other miniature wargames terrain projects.
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Monday, May 08, 2006
The Shifting Lands site has a nice tutorial on various techniques to use when modeling banners and flags on your miniature wargaming figures.
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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.
