Junior General offers a good photo-realistic paper model of a modern middle eastern building.
Matting Acrylics With Talc
The Waving Flag has an article on creating a matte effect in acrylics with talc.
European City Building Paper Model
From the Junior General, a paper model of a European city building.
100 Hyperborean Treasures
My perusal of blogs tells me that a lot of miniature gamers now are running rpg style miniatures games with rules sets like Conan!, Song of XXX and In Her Majesty’s name among others. For people running Conan style games, here’s a great list of treasures / objectives.
Space Battles
Space Battles is a set of free wargame rules designed for HO Scale science fiction miniatures.