Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Here’s an interesting idea about using an old children’s board book as a base for making terrain. I think there’s lots of other uses for this readily available source of thick cardboard.
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Maiwand Day has a nice photo essay on making a wargames mountain with a vertical profile. It’s really great looking, and is on my list of future projects
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Roundwood’s World has some great photos of his WWI wooded terrain board.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
There was a guy in our group who constructed an entire forest out of nails and sponges. It seemed like a good idea until one of the players leaned over the table and his hand came down on one of the trees.
Still, if you’re brave enough, here’s how to do it.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Here’s a photo tutorial on how to make some truly amazing terrain tiles from fake fur.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Every time I see an article on terrain tiles, it makes me want to go out and make them. But space considerations keep the idea at bay ... one day ....
Still, here’s a nice article on texturing terrain tiles.
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Thursday, December 08, 2011
The Command Tent offers a nice photo tutorial on making hills for your wargames table. I’ve been making hills for thirty years, but I always find a tidbit or two in tutorials like these.
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
The Lazy Forger has a three part tutorial on making a paved road
http://www.thelazyforger.com/tutorials/how-to-sculpt-a-paved-road-part-1/
http://www.thelazyforger.com/tutorials/how-to-sculpt-a-paved-road-part-2/
http://www.thelazyforger.com/tutorials/road-crossing/
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
The Legends and Legions blog has a set of instructions for making a nice set of stepped hills for a Judean campaign. I’m interested in this because I have Judean, Assyrian and Philistine armies in 28mm.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
The Wargames Table has a nice article on modeling trees for The Great War. The trees also look to me as though they would be nice for a deadlands type of fantasy setup.
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Poll #3:
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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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