Friday, November 06, 2009
Making A Prehistoric Hut
Terrain Buildings
Carmen’s Fun Painty Time blog has an article on making a nice prehistoric hut out of sculpy.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Ghost Town Tour
19th Century
Bodie is a wild west ghost town in California, and the website has virtual tours of the town and some of its 200 buildings. The map alone looks like it would be useful for wild west games. Thanks to reader Troy for the tip.
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Paper Albatross DRII Model
Paper Figs Terrain
In 1/72 and 1/48 scale, here is a downloadable model of an Albatross DRII.
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Making A Set-Piece Terrain Board
Terrain Outdoor
The English Civil War blog has a piece on making a set piece terrain board. In this instance, it’s for the Battle of Naseby.
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Monday, November 02, 2009
Modern Military Uniform Painting Guide
Here’s a terrific slide gallery of a wide variety of modern military uniforms. I’ve found this useful in my current side project of painting 15mm modern forces.
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Sunday, November 01, 2009
Making Your Own Sculpting Tools
Sculpting
A free ebook on Making Your Own Sculpting Tool.
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
D6 Shooters Cowboy Game
Free Board Games
D6 Shooters is a solo Old West Campaign game. The format could be adapted to a wide variety of periods and settings.
The d6 Shooters are a famous Old West posse, and you are their leader. In this solitaire Print-and-Play series, you will lead your posse on several adventures and missions, using a Yahtzee-style dice system to gain resources, movement and perform other important actions. There is always danger near, and your journeys will be very challenging to complete, but there is also the potential for great reward with untapped gold deposits among the California lands where you travel.
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Friday, October 30, 2009
Wyoming Cowboy Card Game
Free Board Games
Wyoming Cowboy is an interesting little game played with regular playing cards:
In Wyoming Cowboy, players take actions and collect combinations of cards which have various positive and negative point values. The object of the game is to be the first player to accumulate 500 points. Normal playing cards are used and there are no partners. (Cowboys, of course, ride the range on their own; it’s a solitary life.) The length of games, length of hands, number of hands in a game, number of points in a hand, and number of cards in a hand will all vary dramatically as players attempt to reach the 500 mark.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Crocodile Games’ Free E-Zine
Fantasy
Crocodile Games now is producing a free e-zine in support of their Wargods games. From their announcement:
News flash! Crocodile Games has started it’s own webzine!
For a while now, we’ve been working on coming up with a way to bring new WarGods material to our customers in a quick and inexpensive way. Meet “Croc Tales”—the Crocodile Games webzine. In the coming months, we’ll be using this webzine to introduce new WarGods rules and troops, as well as to show off some of our favorite painting and scenery-building ideas.
We’ve organized this webzine into an easy-to-print format, so players can print the articles they want and put them into a handy binder for the game table. But this material is not just for a PDF—we prefer professionally printed manuals, and the vast majority of our customers do too. We’ll compile this material annually and print it as a complete book—with some new material added as well for extra value. Over the next few months we’ll also be re-publishing some of our older material from Harbinger Magazine, which has been out of print for some time. We’re looking forward to getting these hard-to-find rules into the hands of our gamers.
Since this first issue arrives just in time for Halloween, we’ve gone with a ‘monsters’ theme. The first article reveals the rules for the dreaded Scarab Ogre—a new monster for the Eater of the Dead. The Scarab Ogre was first revealed at the climax of the “Lost City of Ankhara” World Campaign at GenCon Indy 2007, and it is our pleasure to finally unleash these beasts upon the rest of the world! Our second feature is Clarke Payne’s “Monsters of Aegyptus” article, an expansion of new beasts for the Lair of the Monster subplot from WarGods of Aegyptus.
Watch for issue #2 in one month’s time—where we introduce you to the TITANS!
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Free Magazine: Best of Battlegames
General Stories
Battlegames is an excellent commercially produced wargames magazine, and for their third anniversary, they’re giving away an 82 page pdf that contains a selection of articles from issues 1 - 18. The cover is humorously labeled No Charge!
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