Friday, June 08, 2007
Meeples and Miniatures Podcast #12
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The latest Meeples and Miniatures Podcast—#12—now is available.
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Friday, June 08, 2007
The latest Meeples and Miniatures Podcast—#12—now is available.
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
Searching for information to aid me in making my own Norman army, I ran across the Normans of Stockholm miniatures blog.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007
All About Miniatures is a podcast about ... well, miniatures.
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Friday, March 30, 2007
There’s an interesting project going on over at Flickr called 700 Things. The goal is to collect 700 illustrations of things in various categories, such as hobos, and pirates.
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Sunday, March 18, 2007
Upior Nagi’s Hell Hole is a relatively new blog with a miniature wargaming focus. The author writes:
My name is Mike, and I am Upior Nagi (pronounced oop-yoor na-gee), which is ancient slavic way of saying, “Naked Vampire.” If you dare, view my blog for my musings on toys, miniatures, post apocalyptic and sci-fi books movies (mostly the bad kind), rpgs, games and anything else I feel like sharing when not in stasis. I have painted all miniatures on this site unless otherwise stated… and yes, they DO walk around the house at night.
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Friday, March 16, 2007
Lets welcome the Plastic Wargaming Blog to the wargaming blogosphere.
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Thursday, March 15, 2007
Arthur’s Classic Novels site offers free online reading of classic works. Of particular interest to gamers are the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels, as well as works by Winston Churchill, Burton, E.M. Forster, H. Rider Haggard, Robert E. Howard, Rudyard Kipling and many, many more.
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Sunday, March 11, 2007
Charge! is a new blog for the American Civil war from the Johnny Reb Gaming Society.
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Saturday, February 17, 2007
Othismos is a new blog focusing on wargaming ancient Greece. Give it a visit.
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Thursday, February 08, 2007
Issue 28 of Harbinger Magazine is out. This issue includes, add on rules for the Star Wars starship battles rules, a run through of an Occut Wars game, and a free battleground scenario.
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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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