Saturday, March 31, 2007
Lockwasher has a collection of whimsical and classic looking robots that are a treasure trove of ideas for your pulp science fiction games.
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Monday, March 05, 2007
Steampunk Magazine is a new free pdf zine dedicated. The editors say:
Before the age of homogenization and micro-machinery, before the tyrannous efficiency of internal combustion and the domestication of electricity, lived beautiful, monstrous machines that lived and breathed and exploded unexpectedly at inconvenient moments. It was a time where art and craft were united, where unique wonders were invented and forgotten, and punks roamed the streets, living in squats and fighting against despotic governance through wit, will and wile.
Even if we had to make it all up.
SteamPunk Magazine is a publication that is dedicated to promoting steampunk as a culture, as more than a sub-category of fiction. It is a journal of fashion, music, misapplied technology and chaos. And fiction.
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Monday, February 26, 2007
For Victorian Science Fiction fans, here’s a page with photos and an explanation of a model steam walker. There’s also a video.
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Friday, October 13, 2006
In 1878, a specially designed barge was built to ferry an obelisk from Egypt to England. It was a Victorian era media event, as it took more than a year to complete the journey. Here’s a paper model of the very unusual “Cleopatra” barge.
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Friday, September 29, 2006
Phillip Fickling has a paper model of a submarine that may be of use for victorian science fiction fans. Click on the free model link.
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Sunday, September 10, 2006
The Wargamer on Deck offers photos of his project to build an HG Wells Martian Tripod from a computer mouse, razor handles, plastic knives and some other bits. It looks quite nice.
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Poll #1:
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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.
