Sculpey is a polymer clay that hardens in the oven at relatively low temperatures. It’s amazing stuff that can be used to create a wide variety of useful things for wargames. Here’s a tutorial on using sculpy to model slate.
Month: November 2019
Science Fiction Vent Stack Model
Terragenesis has a neat tutorial for making a large vent stack — the kind that presumably would be used above a large underground complex. It’s a really neat model, in that it implies that there’s more in the area than what you can see on the flat tabletop.
30 Rails Roll and Write Game
30 Rails is a free print-and-play roll-and-write game played on a 6×6 grid. Players draw mountains a mine and stations and then fill in the remainder of the grid with track based on the outcome of die rolls.
Field of Honor Card Game
Using a standard deck of cards, Jim Wallman’s Field of Honor is:
a simple two player card game that is an abstract depiction of two armies facing each other on the battlefield. It can either be played as a simple two player card game, or as a sub-game to a more complex wargame � say a campaign where you wish to resolve minor battles without resorting to setting out model soldiers.
Making Birch Trees
I’m not one to spend a lot of time making trees for my wargames. I tend to buy the big bags of pre-made model railroad trees, preferring to spend my effort on painting miniatures or making buildings. But one thing that’s always been missing from the lines of plastic trees are birches. Youc an get them, but they’re typically very expensive compared to the plastic connifers and deciduous trees.
Terragenesis has the solution with a tutorial on making cheap (and what looks like quick) birch trees from fabric wrapped floral wire and floral tape.
The author didn’t put any leaves on them, but it wouldn’t be too much trouble with a can of spray adhesive and some appropriately colored foam flocking.