Pictoral History of Costume

Braun and Schneider’s “History of Costume” was published from 1861-1880 in Munich. This website has the translated text and the original color plates, with more than 500 costumes. This is a great miniatures painting guide, especially for the “contemporary” (i.e., 1880s) plates of peoples in Europe, Africa and Asia.

AWI Figure Comparison

Dan Foley has a review and comparison of wargaming figures from several miniature manufacturers’ American War of Independence lines.

Metallics Painting Tutorial

Who needs that crazy non-metal metallic (NMM) miniatures painting style. Slave to Paint studios has this tutorial on painting metallics on your wargaming miniatures the traditional way: with metallic paint.

Scratch-Building Wargames Terrain

Chris Brantley has a page with advice on scratch-building wargames terrain. It’s aimed at newbies in general, and DBA players in particular.

TIERRA Y LIBERTAD rules

Arofan Gregory has posted TIERRA Y LIBERTAD, a set of free fast play wargames rules for the 1910 – 1920 Mexican Revolution.