Thursday, February 28, 2008
The Fifteenth Century site has a lot of information on the Wars of the Roses. It’s a nice place to visit for someone looking for abasic information on the conflict.
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Friday, December 21, 2007
The New York Public Library’s Digital Collection has plates of Polish uniforms from 1633 to 1787.
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Thursday, December 06, 2007
The New York Public Library Systems Digital Library has digitized images of thousands of plates, prints and paintings, including these of the uniforms of Byzantium through 1453.
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
Vexilla offers a set of free 15mm scale flags for the Great Italian Wars of the Renaissance. They’ve got flags for the Milanese, French, Venetian, Swiss, Spanish, Imperial and Landsknecht
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Saturday, September 01, 2007
The Quindia site has some beautiful English Civil War flags for you to download and print out.
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Friday, April 13, 2007
Here are a couple of short guides to English Civil War Royalist and Parliamentarian uniforms.
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Friday, March 23, 2007
Clockpunk is like Steampunk—except it’s set in the Renaissance. The science fiction sub-genre is set in a Renaissance where technology that was invented many years later comes into play. Here’s a new blog called DaVinci Automata dedicated to the genre. Plenty of ideas here—especially if you already (as many of us do) own Renaissance era figures.
I remember playing a game at a Chicago convention some years ago called DaVinci something-or-other that involved a large number of Leonardo DaVinci’s war engines. It was a lot of fun.
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Sunday, December 10, 2006
Arnstein has a collection of pages about his 10mm Samurai project. There are some gorgeous photos, and lots of useful information.
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Monday, September 18, 2006
Here’s some eye candy of English Civil War figures.
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Friday, October 14, 2005
Chronofus has written a guide to wargaming the Aztecs. This is a major work, with information on the various troop types, and comes complete with color illustrations
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Poll #3:
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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