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Friday, April 30, 2004

Wallpaper for Buildings

Terrain Buildings

Black Rommel posted this advice on making wallpaper for wargames building interiors on The Miniatures Page. While building some 15mm ruins and houses this morning, I remembered a quick and easy tip for getting the insides of your houses to look like the insides of a house - wallpaper. http://www.decoratetoday.com has a MILLION,ZILLION wall paper designs that are great for all scales of miniatures. Just print out and bam! ready made interiors. They even have borders if you just want that. I came across this site while making maps for Call of Duty, and have been busy with it ever since. When printing it out use regular paper, and a thin wash (60/40 white glue/water) to coat the sample pretty well. Stick on the wall of your choice and let dry. Make sure to get the air bubbles out by gently sliding a ruler over it. When dry (usually a couple hours), a very thin wash of brown/grey over it gives it the bombed out look. The amount of samples they have are incredible - Bamboo, suede, brick, cobblestone, parchment, its insane. Best of all the entire site is searchable so you can look for yellow stone for example

 

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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.

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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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