Sunday, January 22, 2006
Patrick Crusiau, whose work I greatly admire, has created a page of Victorian Science Fiction Figures. They go well with the paper martians here. Now it will be easy to try out those battle son Mars that you weren’t sure that you wanted to spend all the time and effort buying and painting figures for.
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Sunday, January 22, 2006
GASLIGHT is probably the most played set of Victorian Science Fiction miniatures rules available today. The Rivets and Steam site has a page of houserules for the set.
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Saturday, January 21, 2006
The PaperWorlds archive has jpg images of martians for you to download. They are reminiscent in style of the ones from the old Space: 1889 game.
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Saturday, January 21, 2006
John Snow is the father of modern epidemiology, having tracked the source of a cholera outbreak in London in 1855, thanks to some good old fashioned detective work. It’s a story worth reading, but I won’t go into it here. At any rate, the UCLA Department of Epidemiology has an interactive online map of London in 1859. You can zoom in on the map down to an amazing level. I actually have a copy of the map (framed for posterity) that I acquired when I was in my victorian role playing phase. It was hard to find then. Fortunately, you don’t have to conduct the smae long search that I did. You can just look at it online.
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Saturday, January 21, 2006
James Cambias has written an article on using dirigibles in the Sky Galleons of Mars rules.
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Friday, January 20, 2006
The Historical Designs website has a section with pictures of Victorian houses and floorplans for you to peruse. You could take some of these floorplans, print them to scale and then use them as playing maps, or to construct your own 3d models.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Ok. So its not miniature wargaming. And it may not even be VSF, but I’m including this link anyway because some of us are old enough to remember when choose your adventure books were all the rage. The Underdogs site has copies of a series of Sherlock Holmes mysteries done by Iron Crown Enterprises.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Forgotten Futures is Marcus Rowland’s role playing game of scientific romance. It’s been around for quite a while, having been available on the web for years, before being published by the Heliograph. That company now has discontinued the product, and it again is available on the web. I have a printed copy, and have really enjoyed it. There are plenty of ideas there for miniature wargamers, especially if you like games with a role playing flavor.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
The Land of Evermore is a sculpture park in Wisconsin created by former junkman Tom Every (Dr. Evermore). While it’s not exactly miniature wargaming, Dr. Evermore’s creations—especially the Forevertron—are incredible pieces of inspiration for any steampunk gamer.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006
‘Splorers, Savages, Soldiers and Slavers is a set of miniatures skirmish rules by Alan Hamilton for the Morvalistan wing of the Morval Earth project. Morvalistan is:
a fictional area of Africa. It covers the general region of the current Congo, Kenya and Tanzania. It was created in 1999 by Alan Hamilton ... Set in Victorian times the main characters are British, European and tribal. That is not to say that the Americans and Chinese do not appear.
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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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