Thursday, February 18, 2010
The Paint Machine Blog has an excellent, multipart tutorial on painting ancient spanish scutarri. A nice touch is that he tells you how long it takes to paint each step.
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
The Kaiser’s Bunker has a page with a painting guide to Imperial German uniforms for the period 1842 - 1918. Stylish stuff.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Crusader Miniatures has a painting guide for Vikings.
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
Here’s a collection of color plates of historic Brazilian uniforms from the New York Public Library.
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
From the New York Public Library: a series of color plates depicting historical uniforms of Argentina. It may be of use for you aficionados of the Great Paraguayan War.
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Saturday, December 27, 2008
The New York Public Library has a large collection of color plates of the armies of Finland in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Here’s a large selection of color plates of the uniforms of Norway and Sweden from 1500 - 1909.
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
The New York Public Library’s Uniforms Collection has its vast collection of color uniform plates for the French Army 1250 - 1806 available on line. Those dates, of course, include quite a bit of Napoleonic uniforms.
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Hot_Lead has a tutorial on a faux marble painting technique. The green marble column example is really amazing.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
A. Imrie has an extensive set of tutorials on painting figures with the non-metallic metals technique.
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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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