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Saturday, October 16, 2004

Building A Cantina

Terrain Buildings

Tim Peterson has some instructions on builidng a cantina that is suitable for use in 25mm - 28mm wargames set in the American southwest. The same building techniques also could be used -- with some small modifications -- for buildings in the Middle East or Africa.

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Thursday, October 14, 2004

Building Orthanc

Fantasy,  Games Workshop,  GWs LoTR,  Terrain Buildings

The Terragenesis site has some instructions for building Saruman's tower, Orthanc. You have to see it to believe it.

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Thursday, September 30, 2004

Windmill Building Templates

Terrain Buildings

Just in time for Halloween, Games Workshop's Black Gobbo online magazine has instructions and downloadable templates for building a spooky windmill. I like to do a Halloween game every year, and this is just the thing for the last stand of Frankenstein's monster.

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Saturday, September 25, 2004

Bamboo Hut Paper Models

18th Century,  Colonials,  Early 20th C,  MWG Exclusives,  Paper Figs Terrain,  Terrain Buildings

A MiniatureWargaming dot Com exclusive! Your friendly editor created these original paper model bamboo huts for use in his 25mm Moro Rebellion game. They were drawn using Corel Draw and Corel Photo Paint. The figures are 25mm Old Glory Moro Rebellion. There's a large hut, a small hut and burned out versions of each. The burned out versions have interiors and floors. Better yet -- they fit inside the unburned versions. So, as your Marines burn the village, you can remove the pristine version to reveal the smoking ruins. These would be good for use with any 25mm - 28mm game in tropical regions.

You can download the PDF files here.

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Monday, September 20, 2004

Warhammer Village

Games Workshop,  Terrain Buildings,  Warhammer Fantasy

John Flynn's Cave of the Hellhounds site has some instructions on making a nice little village out of the structures that come in the Warhammer Fantasy boxed set.

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Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Polystyrene Ruins

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Gary James has some instructions on building ruins for 25mm - 28mm wargames out of polystyrene packing material. He says that he was inspired by Games Workshop's City Fight rules, but the techniques would be just as good for something like a Stalingrad WWII scenario. Here's a link to an earlier post on Stalingrad.

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Monday, August 30, 2004

Colonial Ship Building

Colonials,  Naval Models,  Terrain Buildings

Here's a set of instructions on how to build a variety of ships for your colonial wargames. Designed for the 25mm - 28mm figure, they are not really to scale, but are designed to work well and look good on the tabletop. From the seminal website Major General Tremorden Rederring's Colonial-era Wargames Page.

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Saturday, August 28, 2004

Thatched Wooden Barn

Paper Figs Terrain,  Terrain Buildings

Peter Fitzpatrick offers this paper model for a 25mm - 28mm scale thatched wooden barn. This would be a useful bit of wargames terrain for many European scenarios.

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Friday, August 27, 2004

Japanese Skyscraper Paper Models

Paper Figs Terrain,  Terrain Buildings

If you're going to play miniatures games with Japanese monsters, you need some buildings for them to destroy. Here are a couple of paper models that are ripe for destruction by Godzilla, or Megalon, or Mothra, or whomever.

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Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Building Terrain With Plaster Blocks

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Gerrit Postma has posted some advice on casting plaster blocks and using them to build wargames terrain.

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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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