The Miniature Wargaming Editor

Supplier For Specialty Bottles

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I like to mix my own figure washes in various colors using Future Floor Wax, water and acrylic hobby paints. It’s an integral part of my painting system. I typically waste too much of both floor wax and paint, however, because I inevitably mix much more than I need. It’s occurred to me that the thing to do is to mix a standard set of colors and store them in small bottles. But I never have because I could never figure out where to get the bottles.

Then I ran across a site called Specialty Bottle. They carry bottles in a wonderful variety of sizes, in glass, plastic, and tin. I think I’m going to get a bunch of smallish ones with eye droppers.

Elan Deluxe Napoleonic Rules

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Elan Deluxe is a set of free rules for playing Napoleonic wargames. Once published professionally, it now is available online. This is a very well done, and interesting set of rules. The nominal scale is 1-50, with units representing battalions and regiments.

Paper Models Of Sea Creatures and Research Vessels

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The Japan Agency of Marine Earth Science and Technology offer a page of free, downloadable paper models of sea creatures and research vessels. Properly scaled, they might be useful for a Thunderball type skirmish game, if anyone ever makes a few 28mm 1960s era scuba diver.

Bloody Big World War II Battles

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Bloody Big World War II Battles is a set of free wargames rules for large scale WWII battles. Each base in the game represents a battalion or regiment. The ground scale is either 3” or 6” to the kilometer. Time scale is 1turn = 2 or 1hrs. One model represents 30 or 10 vehicles / guns or half a battalion or company of infantry

RISUS RPG Lite

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Risus is a free RPG from S. John Ross. He writes:

Risus is a complete Role Playing Game (RPG) designed to provide an “RPG Lite” for those nights when the brain is too tired for exacting detail. Risus is especially valuable to GMs assembling a quick convention game, or any late-night beer-and-pretzels outing. While it is essentially a Universal Comedy System, it works just as well for serious play (if you insist!). Best of all, a Risus character takes about 20 seconds to create!

CREDIT WHERE IT’S DUE
Inspiration for the nature of this game comes largely from the sadly out-of-print classic, Ghostbusters, from West End Games, sparked against an idea (Clich�s) from DC Heroes. The final shape and form of the game was inspired by Over the Edge, from Atlas Games. Other RPGs (most notably GURPS, FUDGE and Tunnels and Trolls), have also provided valuable inspiration …