Saturday, November 04, 2006
Konami offers a paper model kit of a wheeled science fiction drone
. You can get it in four color schemes.
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Here’s a neat set of science fiction logos from the past 40 years worth of television and movies in font form. That’s neat, becuase it allows you to scale them up or down as needed. Very useful for science fiction games.
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Sunday, October 01, 2006
I’m going to make a confession: until the recent series, I never was much of a Dr. Who fan. The oler ones were just too cheesy and poorly made for me to enjoy. But the new ones are teriffic.
That said, I have of course begun to look into playing Dr. Who games. You can find a bunch of free paper miniatures and rules here.
But then you’re also going to need a Tardis. There’s a nice full color one here, with color models of both the interior and exterior here. It’s even designed for 25mm - 28mm scale.
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Monday, September 04, 2006
At Terragenesis, Phil Arkell has some instructions on making an alien encampment out of the bottoms of plastic two liter bottles.
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Tuesday, July 04, 2006
I love to put civilians on my battlefields. It think that it add an extra level of realism to the game. When I get some money together to start my own miniatures company, all I’m going to produce is civilians from every era.
In the meantime, here’s a list of civilian figures for science ficiton games.
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Thursday, June 15, 2006
Alternate Realms has a nifty paper model of a two-legged combat walker. It would be great for a straight science fiction, steampunk or pulp adventure game. I’m not sure what the scale is, but since its in jpg format, you can scale it using your favorite paint program
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Eye Candy Time. Terragenesis has a page with photos of a massive—and I do mean massive—space station model for 25mm figures. You’ve got to see it to believe it.
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Friday, May 05, 2006
You could have a lot of fun playing a Dr. Who miniatures game. There are a couple of manufacturers who made such figures over the years, but this is a free resources site. so here’s a page of free paper Dr. Who miniatures, including most of the Doctors and his companions, UNIT soldiers, various aliens, and, of course, Daleks.
You can find a link to a set of Dr. Who miniatures rules here.
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Saturday, February 04, 2006
Steve Jackson’s Ogre is a classic game. I first got a copy when it was in a small bag with thin cardboard cutout counters. It’s gone through several incarnations since then, but the idea of hordes of GEVs and infantry against a single cybernetic tank. Now Dan Efran has a page describing how to build Ogre pieces with Lego. Its really cool, and I can’t wait until my kids outgrow the things and I inherit them.
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Monday, January 09, 2006
If you play Full Thrust, you know that checking systems for damage can consume a good deal of game time. Seeking to solve this problem, James F Clay has come up with the idea of “Threshold Cards.” It looks like a good solution, and is certainly one that I’m going to try the next time we play Full Thrust.
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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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