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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Saturday, September 09, 2006
For the fans of scientific romances, here’s a page from WETA that offers:
a series of 3 antique Rayguns, the MANMELTER 3600ZX, the GOLIATHON 83 and the FMOM INDUSTRIES WAVE DISRUPTER GUN (all wondrous contraptions), sourced from attics, antique collections and auctions the world over, are made available to you in extremely limited quantities.
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Monday, July 31, 2006
Charger has some instructions on building a fueling station for Warmachine Warjacks. The model also looks like it would fit in very well with a Victorian Science Fiction setting.
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Thursday, June 15, 2006
Alternate Realms has a nifty paper model of a two-legged combat walker. It would be great for a straight science fiction, steampunk or pulp adventure game. I’m not sure what the scale is, but since its in jpg format, you can scale it using your favorite paint program
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Thursday, March 02, 2006
Yours In White Wine Sauce is a new blog about gaming Victorian Science Fiction.
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Thursday, March 02, 2006
The Edgar Rice Burroughs Atlas is a collection of maps—taken from books, magazines and comics—of Tarzan’s africa, Barsoom, Pellucidar, and other lands of ERB’s creation.
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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.
