Stone Edges sell PDF dungeons that you can print on cardstock. Nice idea and the creator looks like they might know something about 3d modelling. Those crates in look more like a rendered scene than a photograph of some assembled pieces to me.
They also give away free samples from each set for you to try.
Here’s an online archive of World War II colour photography! Seems to cover most of the major forces and theatres too. How did I not stumble onto this site in the past! They have a number of well known photographs as well as an odd mix of what looks like official propaganda, portraits, snaps from the field (really useful for the historical gamer) and interesting oddities. In particular there’s several North African field photos which will be handy for me.
Nicely spotted Aaron.
The ‘Wasatch Front Historical Gaming Society’ have a great looking Flames of War North African Tobruk campaign available for download. Very professional presentation and it looks like an interesting campaign too.
Still painting my first Rifle Platoon. I seem to have abandoned my original planning for this month and am focussing on this 9 team platoon.
Yes I’ve been messing around with pieces of wood bark for the WHFB tabletop and as everyone says it makes great rocks. Here’s one of the two pieces I’ve put together so far. I suspect I’ll have to make a few more WHFB hills and work wood bark in as the cliff faces rather than simply using cut foam.
www.practicalpainting.com is a new fine artist’s site. It’s hard to say how much of it will be useful to your average wargamer, but they already have an interesting article about paintbrush ownership and care.
You may have noticed that I’ve been linking more and posting less original work in the last couple of weeks. That’s because I haven’t had a chance to complete any major projects. I’ve been busy making commission terrain and we’re out of our house for most of this week due to floor varnishing. However I have just put together a couple of nifty wood-bark ‘stone piles’ for WHFB and I am still painting FOW figures… so stay tuned.
The Flames of War site has just posted a lovely article about making your own stowage. I’m definitely going to have to try these techniques on any new vehicles I purchase.
It seems the forums I frequent on Ezboard got hacked and consequentially lost all of their messages. They’re muttering about ‘restoring some boards’ but it doesn’t sound like they have a coherent or recoverable backup anywhere.
I know they’re a free service but this whole situation smacks of incompetence. First they got hacked so clearly there’s some security issues to deal with. Secondly they seem to have no real backups whatsoever – not even for their ‘Gold Communities’. This is inexcusable imho.
Remember that these boards are essentially just TEXT BASED BULLETIN BOARDS. There are no attachments on the boards (you post images by linking to another host site). Ezboard communities also appear to ‘age’ so old messages in active forums eventually just go away. All of which suggests it should have been fairly easy and painless to backup their servers (or at least the forum data) to some high density format. Oh and I believe text probably compresses quite nicely too.
Oh well, I guess I need to finish some terrain so I can post *new* articles up!
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