Sunday, April 08, 2007
The Miniatures Page has a tutorial on making cratered planetoids out of styrofoam balls. These are perfect for the new Wizards of the Coast Star Wars collectable star ship miniatures game.
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Saturday, March 24, 2007
Terrain Thralls has a photo tutorial on making terrain that looks like ice floes. They’re cleverly made from foam core, and is intended for Privateer Press’ Warmachine game, but I think it would be spectacular in a variety of fantasy settings. I can also envision a neat Frankenstein vs The Monster scenario.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
I’m not one to spend a lot of time making trees for my wargames. I tend to buy the big bags of pre-made model railroad trees, preferring to spend my effort on painting miniatures or making buildings. But one thing that’s always been missing from the lines of plastic trees are birches. Youc an get them, but they’re typically very expensive compared to the plastic connifers and deciduous trees.
Terragenesis has the solution with a tutorial on making cheap (and what looks like quick) birch trees from fabric wrapped floral wire and floral tape.
The author didn’t put any leaves on them, but it wouldn’t be too much trouble with a can of spray adhesive and some appropriately colored foam flocking.
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Saturday, February 03, 2007
Great Escape Games has an article on making realistic looking trees from seafoam. I have no idea what seafoam is—except that it’s a plant that you can buy from model railroading supply stores that mimics the structure of real trees. John Hill—of Johnny Reb fame—once told me that the secret to great looking terrain was that “Nature replicates itself in miniature.” Bits of bark look amazingly like rock formations; lichen looks like bushes; and seafoam looks like tree trunks.
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Friday, January 26, 2007
The Nunawading Wargames Association offers a photo tutorial on making good looking hills for your wargames table.
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Steve Freshour has a shot tutorial on how to make a rock pillar for your gaming table. It makes a nice piece of alien terrain, or if done slightly differently wouldn’t look out of place in a game based on a John Ford western.
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Thursday, December 14, 2006
The Last Alliance has an article on making Mallorn Trees—those huge trees amongst which the elves live in The Lord of The Rings. The idea is that the trees are so large—and their branches so high that only the trunks come into play in a game.
Now, I don’t have much use for Mallorn Trees, but it occurs to me that the same technique also could be used to make the trunks of trees in, say, the Brazilian rain forest. You could use some of those Copplestone pygmies and Amazon explorers.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Here’s a tutorial on making trees from scouring pads.. They’re very nice looking, and it looks like a fun project, but frankly you can get nice pre-made trees from a variety of sources. Still, they’re bound to be a lot cheaper, and if you’re a do-it-yourselfer ....
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Dagolad has a nice photo tutorial on building a model of Weathertop for your Games Workshop Lord of the Rings fantasy games.
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Robet Spears has some instructions on builidng a burial mound in 25mm / 28mm scale. It’s the perfect thing for a horror game.
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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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