Friday, November 19, 2010
Manorhouse Workshop has a set of three tutorials on making wargames terrain from high density polystyrene (insulation board).
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Thursday, September 16, 2010
For those modern and near-future games, here’s an illustrated tutorial on making a really neat shantytown.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Sunday, September 12, 2010
An illustrated tutorial for making a Viking Long House.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Saturday, April 24, 2010
The Boring Mordheim Forum has a photo tutorial on constructing Japanese style buildings for 28mm figures.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Saturday, March 13, 2010
The Damfpanzerwagon Blog has a nice series of articles on making a set of quasi-napoleonic buildings for the Flintloque game.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Friday, February 26, 2010
The Wargame Terrain blog has a nice tutorial on making a thatched hut native village.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Friday, November 06, 2009
Carmen’s Fun Painty Time blog has an article on making a nice prehistoric hut out of sculpy.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Monday, October 26, 2009
The first of eleven parts on making a 15mm scale building. The rest are here.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Terragenesis has an article on making tents from strawberry baskets. They would be right in place in any medieval or fantasy game.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Friday, July 31, 2009
TerraGenesis has a nice illustrated article on making 28mm scale European buildings for your World War II games.
Entry Permalink and Comments | Email this entry | List All Posts By Category
Page 3 of 17 pages < 1 2 3 4 5 > Last »
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|