Thursday, February 26, 2009
The Yahoo 6mm gaming group has a nice selection of print-and-play buildings. As of this writing, all are of the European sort.
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Friday, February 13, 2009
The Japan Agency of Marine Earth Science and Technology offer a page of free, downloadable paper models of sea creatures and research vessels. Properly scaled, they might be useful for a Thunderball type skirmish game, if anyone ever makes a few 28mm 1960s era scuba diver.
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
From Dave’s Gaming Pages is a nice set of medieval style paper taverns: Gold Cup Tavern, the Hook Alehouse and Lions Door Eatery, the Old Temple Tavern, the Swan Hotel and Two Skulls Inn.
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Ron Shirtz offers a great looking play map / tiles for recreating the famous battle of Balin’s Tomb from the Lord of the Rings. It’d be absolutely perfect for playing games with Games Workshop’s Lord of the Rings system. The pdf file spans four full color pages that you print and glue together.
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
The Combat Storm site has a couple of modern middle eastern buildings available for downloading. They’re scaled for those green plastic army men, so you may need to resize them on printing if you want to use them with smaller scales.
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Ron Shirtz offers a huge number of beautifully done tiles for playing games of HeroQuest. For that matter, they could be used with any game system that uses terrain with a one-inch hex grid. In the collection are Lava Floor Tiles, Royal Palace Tiles, Dungeon Pits, Inns, two sets of outdoor tiles, room tiles, cave tiles, ice caverns, mines, and sea tiles. There are also some science fiction tiles.
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
Mega Miniatures offers downloadble pdf road sections of brick, concrete and asphalt. They’re done with one inch grids for movement.
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Saturday, January 10, 2009
Brios offers a set of custom tiles for use with the Star Wars miniatures game. They’d also be useful for other scifi games, such as Space Hulk.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009
It’s a little late, but WorldWorks Games offers a free Christmas Tree model. Get them for next year’s Santa Claus vs The Martians game.
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Sunday, January 04, 2009
Dave’s Gaming Pages offer a nice selection of paper models of medieval / renaissance style town towers, including Blackbirds Lodge, Clock Tower and Four Seasons Tower. File 02 includes Gormann Haus, Mouldy Tenement and Piety Tower
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Poll #1:
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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.
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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