Tuesday, February 19, 2008
The Ultrawerke Blog has a good tutorial on resin casting. That’s a useful skill to have when you want to make multiples of some part you’ve produced.
Remember. Casting some else’s work is stealing.
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Friday, February 08, 2008
The Ultrawerke Blog has a post on making your own punch and die set—useful for making scale model rivets, bolts and nuts. Just the thing to dress up your miniature wargames vehicles and armor.
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
The One Ring has a photo tutorial on building a catapult for your 25mm 28mm figures.
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Saturday, January 19, 2008
Patrick’s Virtual Hobby Shed has a photo tutorial on building a very nice looking steam walker out of a toy.
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Friday, January 04, 2008
The Instructables site has a tutorial on making your own laser cutter. It uses a pair of old scanners for aligning the x and y axes. The entire project can be done for under $50. As far as I can tell, it will only cut paper ... but with a stronger laser and power supply, maybe you could cut cardboard counters, or cardboard bases.
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
One of those great ideas that never was is the mole machine—a transport with a giant drill on the front that carries troops under enemy lines.
Here are some instructions for building one for your 28mm troops.
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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.
