By Kreighton Long
Feeling adventurous, I set out to build a pigsty for my rural Bolt Action terrain. Most of the materials were easy enough to order online. The wattle fences came from Renedra Ltd; the mother pig from Warlord Games; and the balsa wood, match sticks, coffee stirrers, and green stuff from my hobby cache.
By Kreighton Long
Slowly but surely I’ve been working on improving my terrain options with the focus on Bolt Action. My primary army project for this year is overhauling my Soviet forces. Accordingly, my terrain optics have been focused on the terrain pieces that will best fit the Eastern Front.
By Kreighton Long
I recently stumbled across Father and Son Gaming’s Organic Shapes MDF Terrain Base Set and thought about the improvement they could offer my current terrain set-ups. For years I’ve collected trees, a couple at a time, from various conventions.
I’ve used those same trees on nearly every table I’ve thrown together. From time to time I’ve had a minor hiccup where my opponent or I would need to reposition a tree or two to accommodate units moving through the clusters of trees and in doing so would lose track of the intended outline of the trees. For the most part these are friendly club games and we’ve been able to work through it for the spirit of the game.
By Paolo Paglianti
I really like to have custom bases for my miniatures, as you can see and read here (), here () and here (), I normally try to have small dioramas for my Flames of War or Team Yankee infantry teams. When I began painting my new Iraq army, and I come to the three platoons infantry formation, I wanted something different. One of the three platoons would fight on rocky ground, the same I used for my “Sicilian” bases for my British WW2 Paras. Some great inspirations come from my friend Luca Papisca and his US bases!
For the other two platoons, I chose an “urban street” scenario and a “rural village” scenario, using my new 3D Resin Printer (). I think 3d Printing is a true revolution in modeling and in our hobby: not only because you can print the tanks you need, but especially since you can “create” almost everything you want, you just need some creativity.
By Mitch Reed
One of the best aspects’ gamers love about Blood & Plunder is its historical setting in the days of the early colonial Americas. Once a gamer has painted their miniatures, they immediately look to create a beautiful table to show off their amazing models. Firelock Games has some great solutions for those who wish to pick up some great terrain that will create that world in which the game is played.
By Tom Burgess
Editor’s note: This is the second of our two part look at 3D resin printing for wargamers.
I know what you are thinking “wouldn’t it be great if I could print the high quality wargame miniatures I want on demand?” The true wargamer response to that has to be “of course!” That’s what I was thinking when I ordered my own 3D resin printer. But it has been an interesting journey for me with some pleasant and some not so pleasant surprises. This endeavor has made me think about the future of wargaming and how I will fit in with it now that I can make my own models.
Quality resin 3D printers are coming down in price and there are so many people offering free and for-a-fee 3D print files, it just may be that we are entering a new age for miniature wargaming. So where might this road be taking us, and is 3D printing for everyone? These are questions that I will attempt to look at in this article. There may be some misconceptions.
So the first thing you are thinking about when considering to buy a 3D resin printer is probably that you’ll save a lot of money on your wargame miniatures.
By Mitch Reed
Recently sent me some of their brand-new and I got around to finishing them just in time to make sure that they land on your holiday wish list. I usually do not collect too much terrain in 15mm however after recently getting a mat that looks like a torn-up battlefield, I decided to take this project on. Past buildings from Battlefront were usually one to three-story affairs made of resin and came pre-painted, these plastic kits are huge and very well done with five floors to expand your table upwards.
It is no secret that I love and even before the game came out, I had a few armies ready to go for play testing and when the game finally came out. One of the things I pleaded with Rufus and Kai to make sure that the game was not all trench warfare. I have always felt that the Great War was under-gamed because many just think of static trench warfare. When I gave demos of the game, I stated that I have no plans to build armies for the western front. However, as I talked about the game more to potential players, I noticed that many of them wanted the mud and blood of the trenches and by picking up some great kits I gave in, well almost since I still do not have any trenches.
By Tyler Stone
The crew over at just unveiled their ‘Ports of Plunder’ range of scenery. These affordable MDF kits are the result of a collaboration with , and have all of the quality the community has come to expect from 4Ground’s scenery. As I type this, my fellow TotS podcaster Glenn van Meter is working on assembling and reviewing a few of these excellent kits.
by Dennis Jensen
I was at my local hobby shop and they had the GaleForce nine Galactic Warzones Bunker for sale at 40% off. I’m not sure what I’m going to use it for but at normally $35 it was irresistible at only $21! The Galactic Warzones line is clearly designed for Star Wars Legion and is 28mm scale. The GaleForce nine buildings are pre-painted and are solidly cast.
As you can see in the below pictures they are nicely painted, and the piece would look really good on the table. With that said I couldn’t help but add a little more detail in the form of weathering and painting up the control modules. For an extra 15 minutes of time this piece really pops. Whether you plan on re-painting this piece or leaving it as is I highly recommend you finding room for it in your hobby bunker!
