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Tuesday, March 03, 2009

Prince August Miniatures Video On Casting Metal Soldiers

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Monday, February 09, 2009

Making A Paper Town In 15mm

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The Small World Productions Blog has a short tutorial on making a paper model village for 15mm Napoleonic miniatures.

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Thursday, February 05, 2009

Photographing Wargames Figures

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Here’s another guide to photographing your miniature wargaming figures.

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Spray Adhesive and Extruded Polystyrene Foam Insulation

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B.C. O’Leary has an article on how various spray adhesives react with polystyrene foam. It’s an article that’s likely to save you a good deal of trouble if you’re building terrain.

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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Making A Hex Grid Playing Matt

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Tom Sparhawk has some instructions for making your own hex-based playing mat. It looks to be enormously time consuming, but if you have more time than money, this is a good alternative to those commercially available products.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Paper Movement Trays

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One Monk has a page of free, downloadable paper movement trays in various sizes. I like these a lot and am going to make a bunch for my Warhammer Ancient Battles games.

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Monday, October 06, 2008

Making Canned Halloween Monsters

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Here’s a neat set of instructions for turning ordinary jars and dollar store finds into horrible jars of monstrous specimens. These would be great props for a horror role playing game.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Amazing Wargames Table

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Billed as the World’s Largest Wargaming Table, this is actually an art piece in a museum. It’s 29’x28’x4’

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Saturday, September 20, 2008

Modeling A Fountain

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Terrain Thralls has a useful tutorial on making a fountain for your 25mm - 28mm cityscapes. The fountain design even includes simulated water spraying from the statue’s mouth.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Bloody Snow Effect

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I’m not at all sure I need this kind of realism on my tabletop, but the Curdled Milk site has some instructions for making bloody snow effects.

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About the Miniature Wargaming Hobby

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.

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