Sunday, October 23, 2011
I’ve put up a gallery with photos from Pro-Or-Con 2011 in Dearborn, Michigan. The convention was held Oct 21-22, 2011 at the University of Michigan - Dearborn campus.
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Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Here’s a nice page of tips on photographing miniatures games at conventions.
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Friday, April 09, 2010
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
This is an interesting Flickr set of photos taken in Korea from October 1945 to January 1946. Wonderful photos, and historically important.
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Friday, February 05, 2010
Here’s a Flickr page with some absolely amazing photos of a 1/24th scale model town constructed to look like the 1950s.
The zombie gaming possibilities are endless ...
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Saturday, November 07, 2009
Cipher Studio offers some tips for creating good photographs of miniatures.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The Painting Clinic has an illustrated tutorial on making a portable photography booth for taking photos of your miniatures.
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
Uncle Cheddar has an article on taking miniatures photographs. One very good piece of advice: Fiddle With Your Lighting, Not Your Camera Settings.
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Felix’ Gaming Pages has an illustrated article on taking great photographs of your miniatures.
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Poll #3:
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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