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Dead Simple Modern Espionage Rules
Dead Simple Modern Espionage is a set of free wargames rules for modern spy games.
Modeling A Pig Sty
The Miniatures and Terrain blog has a tutorial on modeling a pig sty
Paper Modern Middle Eastern Buildings
The Combat Storm site has a couple of modern middle eastern buildings available for downloading. They’re scaled for those green plastic army men, so you may need to resize them on printing if you want to use them with smaller scales.