Friday, July 07, 2006
Ellsweb has some instructions ofor building ruins and wrecks out of foam core, cat litter and other bits. Just what you need to spruce up your miniature wargaming table.
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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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Ah great idea using the cat litter for that wow. Its funny how you can over look that, but the details that will add are amazing!! thanks!!
Posted by Cat Genie on 07/22 at 12:50 PM | #
The very first thing to do, and easily the most important thing, is to draft a plan of your building. Although this seems like the least enjoyable part of the construction, if you have no plan, or a poor plan, then key questions regarding construction will be left unanswered until it is too late to take steps to avoid problems. In the planning phase it is easy to see problems before you actually put blade to foam, potentially saving you time, energy, and materials!
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