Sunday, November 27, 2011
Here’s a post on making small hills from corkboard. What I want to do is to make a series of terrain tiles from cork. I just need to find a relatively cheap supply of 1 foot square cork tiles.
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
Librarium Online has a post on making a cheap and easy, transportable wargames table from a pair of doors.
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Friday, January 08, 2010
Terrain Thralls has an illustrated tutorial on making an impressive Skull Cave terrain feature.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Iron Hands has an article on turning those cheap and ubiquitous porcelain “Christmas Village” buildings into Mordhiem scenery. The results are very good.
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Saturday, November 28, 2009
The Wargames Table has an inspiring article on building a World War I wargames terrain table.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The “My Wargaming Blog” has an article on making cheap and easy rail fences.
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Monday, December 01, 2008
Here’s a useful article on the Top Ten Tools For Terrain Building. I learned something new here: that baking soda can be used as a superglue catalyst and filler.
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Monday, April 07, 2008
LochNess has written an article on building a turn counter that’s cleverly disguised as a scale statue. Its an interesting idea. I’ve long thought that casualty and status markers on a wargames table should be made to look more like terrain pieces. It would make the tables look so much better.
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
MacPhee’s Miniature Men Blog has a tutorial on making rail fences for your 25mm 28mm wargames.
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Friday, February 15, 2008
Although it was essentially a rip-off of Aliens, as a game, Space Hulk was one of GW’s best game efforts. Here’s a tutorial on building your own 3-D Modular Hulks.
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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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