Sunday, March 15, 2009
Here’s a great idea: using plastic storage crates to represent the steel skeletons of a burned out urban landscape.
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Friday, January 30, 2009
Wattle and Daub is an ancient building technique that consists of covering a wicker frame with mud, or clay. Here’s a good tutorial on modeling these buildings, which can be used for structures from ancient to relatively modern times.
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Monday, January 26, 2009
Here are some instructions on making a log cabin and birch lodge. Although the project is intended for larger figures, the techniques would work at any scale.
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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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Friday, December 05, 2008
Iron Hands has a tutorial on making a watertower with a gothic look. It’d be perfect for Necromunda, Warhammer 40K or Warmachine.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The Iron Hand site has a tutorial on building a very nice building-sized laser defense battery for 25mm - 28mm science fiction games, such as Warhammer 40K. These would be great as the focal point of a scenario.
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Sunday, November 02, 2008
Olicanalad’s Games has an illustrated article on making Arab / Middle Eastern style buildings.
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Friday, October 10, 2008
Terrain Thralls has an illustrated tutorial on building a “Soul Mill.” It’s designed for the Warmachine game, but the light up effects and the creepy look would make it fit right in with my own annual horror miniatures game.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Jeffe Koppe describes his efforts in building an Aztec Gateway.
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Terragenesis has an article on building an underground Jedi headquarters. It would work as a Hobbit house also.
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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.
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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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