Thursday, January 01, 2009
Dave’s Games site has some of the best paper models I have seen available for free on the internet. Check out the cabins he offers: Garden Shed, Wood Cabin, Roadside Shrine, Number Twenty Two, Number Thirteen and Hermit’s Hovel.
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Friday, December 26, 2008
Daves’s Pages offers some beautiful free paper medieval house models: Bertholdt Residence, Cockerel House, Happy Pig House, One Lamp Hostel. File 02 contains the Bakery, Glover’s Shop, Maher Residence and Three Bridges Restaurant.
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
The Toposolitario site offers a wonderful set of four wheeled science fiction utility vehicle paper models. Looking a bit like the Dark Knight movie Batmobile, they come in a variety of colors and styles.
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Saturday, November 08, 2008
One Monk offers a set of “Terra Force Auxiliaries”—lightly equipped science fiction figures in 28mm scale. The force includes 2 Snipers, 2 Scouts, 2 Commanders, 2 Medics, 1 Com-link, 1 Demolitions specialist and 1 NCO Officer.
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Friday, October 31, 2008
One Monk offers a set of free skeleton soldiers paper models that would fit in nicely with a lot of horror and fantasy games.
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Friday, October 31, 2008
One Monk offers a set of Halloween and Harvest props. There’s a gnarled tree (in 3d, no less), sheaves, farm field bases, corn and wheatfield rows, and more. The Corn and Wheatfield rows would especially be useful for 25mm skirmish games.
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Friday, October 31, 2008
Here’s a fabulous Cthulhu paper model free for the downloading. It’s sure to spice up your horror miniatures games.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Here’s a page with a paper model of the Torre Del Cielo—the tower that sits outside the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland. If scaled properly with your printing software, it would make a really attractive addition to a wargames table.
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
Here’s a paper model of the mental asylum from Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights attraction. It’s on the large size, so you’ll want to scale it down.
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Saturday, October 25, 2008
Here’s a page with some paper figures of Droogs, from the movie, A Clockwork Orange.
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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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