Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The Architects of War offer a nice illustrated pdf on making forests for small scale miniatures.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Tabletop Titans has a couple of tutorials on making and basing 1/285 scale trees. I’m going to use these for my 6mm English Civil War project.
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Thursday, July 08, 2010
The LudStuff blog has a nice essay with photos on making tabletop rivers.
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Plastic Legions has some photos of a terrific skirmish battle board of some ruins set aside a sea. Wonderful stuff. I’d love to play a pirate skirmish game on this.
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
Carmen’s Fun Painty Time blog has a couple nice examples of terrain bases made from poker chips. He’s a very talented guy.
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
Intructables has an article on making a “spiked barrier for a Rohan gaming table,” but this sort of palisade would be great for a huge variety of periods and scenarios.
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
Eastern Funker’s Panzerfaust Armored Fist Blog has a series of posts on making a wargames river.
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Saturday, May 29, 2010
Quindia Studios has an interesting series of blog posts on how they’re building some outstanding looking terrain for Historicon.
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Saturday, May 08, 2010
Tim’s Wargaming Blog has an illustrated tutorial on making stands for 10mm trees.
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
A Year of Frugal Gaming Blog has a photo tutorial on making a ruined wall from plywood and other bits.
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Poll #1:
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.
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