Modeling Ruins

Wyloch has some good tips here for modeling ruined corners. Corners are among the strongest parts of a building, so they will naturally be prominent parts of ruins.

BrikWars!

BrikWars! is a site dedicated to fighting miniatures battles with Legos. No, I’m not kidding. You have got to see it to believe it. There’s a Lego Napoleonics battle that makes me want to raid my kids’ collection.

Near Run Thing Napoleonics Rules

A Near Run Thing is a set of Napoleonics rules by Peter Hunt of the Hong Kong Society of Wargamers. From the members list, it seems that Hong Kong has quite a thriving miniature wargames community.

Back to the rules: A Near Run Thing apparently once was available as a commercial set, but now is revised and available on the net. Peter Hunt writes:

1572: The Lost Expedition

1572: The Lost Expedition is a roll and write game designed as a one page, ultraportable game. In it, you are a conquistador trying to reach the Atlantic after a failed expedition.

Modern and Sci Fi 6mm Buildings

Germ’s World has a large collection of paper models for wargames in 6mm scale. These would be useful for, say a BattleTech game, or maybe Epic 40k. There are hangars, moon bases, factories, space docks and middle east buildings.