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A page for link lists, directories and similar relating to wargaming websites.

Decals for 1/1200 Miniatures

Posted on Apr 8th, 2023 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Way back at the very end of 2020 I contacted Misc Minis about decals suitable for 1/1200 ship and aircraft miniatures. After a couple of rounds of…

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Remembrance Day Weekend, November 2022

Posted on Nov 12th, 2022 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Went to our local municipal Remembrance Day ceremony in person this year, after two years of live streamed ceremonies watched from my computer, which…

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Links of Interest, 9 January 2022

Posted on Jan 9th, 2022 - By Brian Burger - 1 Comment

First LoI post of the new year! Just a couple of things, mostly to get the BSC link out while entries are still open! On the scenery front, this…

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Links of Interest, 11 August 2021

Posted on Aug 11th, 2021 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Quiet around here as I'm not doing a lot of gaming, painting, or terrain building this summer. Too busy with other things! I did have a couple of…

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Links of Interest, 4 April 2021

Posted on Apr 4th, 2021 - By Brian Burger - 1 Comment

Cement Saul is a fairly new YouTube channel that has been doing a bunch of interesting Gaslands-related videos. I especially like the video on…

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Links of Interest, 10 March 2021

Posted on Mar 10th, 2021 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

A scattering of links for our first Links of Interest of 2021! More possible sources of small scale scenery are always welcome, and over on…

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Links of Interest, 30 September 2020

Posted on Sep 30th, 2020 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Busy month but not much gaming activity of any sort!Over on the awesome Lead Adventure Forum, Silent Invader discussed a really neat…

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Links of Interest, 4 Sept 2020

Posted on Sep 4th, 2020 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Quiet around here for the last couple weeks on account of me being busy getting married and going off on a short honeymoon, as well as various…

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Links of Interest, 17 August 2020

Posted on Aug 17th, 2020 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Nice little sculpting tutorial on doing feathers in greenstuff from JuanHidalgo Miniatures. I really like short, approachable tutorials like this,…

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Links of Interest, 1 July 2020

Posted on Jul 1st, 2020 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

For this Canada Day in a time of pestilence abroad in the land, the usual mix of individual links and items that don't quite warrant an entire…

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Links of Interest, 14 June 2020

Posted on Jun 14th, 2020 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Wargames Designs is partly a webstore, with some good looking historical wargaming flags in a variety of scales, among other things, but they also…

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Links of Interest, 27 January 2020

Posted on Jan 27th, 2020 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

First links of interest of the new year - and the new decade, come to that! Dana Howl has a fairly new YouTube channel that I discovered via…

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Links of Interest, 12 December 2019

Posted on Dec 12th, 2019 - By Brian Burger - 1 Comment

If you're interested in terrain building but not sure where to start, or you already craft terrain but want to step your game up, there's a bunch of…

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two shoreline segments w new waves

Improving Old Terrain

Posted on Dec 8th, 2019 - By Brian Burger - 1 Comment

TerranScapes has a good video on using gloss gel for water, and I also found a video on using gloss gel medium for ship wakes, so naturally I had to…

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Links of Interest, 22 June 2017

Posted on Jun 22nd, 2017 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

A handful of links I thought were worth sharing this week. Historical Enterprises, Inc are a historical reenactors garb/costuming company with all…

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Links of Interest, 16 May 2017

Posted on May 16th, 2017 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

A semi-random collection of links that have caught my eye recently! Swamp grass from cheap paintbrushes via Rob Hawkin's awesome blog. Hmm, I just…

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Links of Interest, 24 Feb 2017

Posted on Feb 24th, 2017 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Last time I mentioned a couple of YouTube painters that had good series of to-the-point, well-edited painting videos. Victor Ques is another I should…

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Links of Interest, 15 September 2016

Posted on Sep 15th, 2016 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

I've been spending some more time on YouTube recently, rummaging around the wargaming-related channels. I don't have the time or the patience for the…

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Links of Interest, 26 April 2015

Posted on Apr 26th, 2015 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

A few links to get us through the weekend! I have a moderate font-collecting addiction. Dafont is my go-to source of high quality free fonts, but…

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Links of Interest, 25 March 2015

Posted on Mar 25th, 2015 - By Brian Burger - 2 Comments

Yet another post of short links, news, random bits, and oddments that wouldn't warrant a full post. Laser-cut MDF for early motor vehicles? They…

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Links of Interest, 4 March 2015

Posted on Mar 4th, 2015 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Another handful of links of interest! James Ernest of Cheapass Games has a short video on three ways to make cards. Nothing earthshaking, but a…

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The Great War Week by Week

Posted on Nov 30th, 2014 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

I just found out about this very interesting project - The Great War on YouTube. Their plan is to do at least one episode a week all the way through…

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Back! (Again…)

Posted on Oct 11th, 2014 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Just back from a month-long field assignment, as mentioned in my previous post. I have more photos of the sculpting projects to post, and some new…

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LInks of Interest, 5 Sept 2014

Posted on Sep 5th, 2014 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Just to prevent this place becoming all-Blood Bowl, all the time, some semi-random interesting links. Over on Lead Adventure Forum, I found the…

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The Atlantic on WW1

Posted on May 13th, 2014 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

The Atlantic magazine is running a ten-part World War One in Photos series with some very interesting images I've not seen before. They're doing a…

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Links of Interest, 23 April 2014

Posted on Apr 23rd, 2014 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Hope everyone had a satisfactory Easter holiday, however you celebrate it. It's a cheap chocolate and dinner with family and friends holiday for me,…

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Third Anglo-Afghan War Resources

Posted on Feb 10th, 2014 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

The Third Anglo-Afghan War of 1919 is a short (May-August 1919) and often forgotten war, and an interesting product of both the aftermath of the…

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Canada’s 1919 Siberian Expedition

Posted on Dec 24th, 2013 - By Brian Burger - 1 Comment

Here's a nice Christmas present for those of us interested in the Russian Civil War, the Great War and related events: siberianexpedition.ca is a…

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Links of Interest, 4 November 2013

Posted on Nov 4th, 2013 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Just a few links to start the new month off. Hope everyone had a safe and excellent Halloween, for those of you who live where it's a thing. Black…

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Links of Interest, 6 October 2013

Posted on Oct 6th, 2013 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Far too quiet around here lately, a post a month or so for far too long! I do apologize; I'm still gaming regularly but my painting has dwindled to a…

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Links of Interest, 3 September 2013

Posted on Sep 2nd, 2013 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Quiet around here recently; I've been gaming regularly through the summer but not doing a whole lot of painting, scenery building or much of anything…

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Links of Interest, 14 April 2013

Posted on Apr 14th, 2013 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Another semi-random collection of links to things that have caught my eye recently! Over at BigLee's, a nice roundup of methods of stripping paint…

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Links of Interest, 28 March 2013

Posted on Mar 28th, 2013 - By Brian Burger - 1 Comment

Short links of interest post while I buckle down and get more cavalry painted for our Russian Civil War games — why is it that six damn horses take…

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Links of Interest, 8th Feb 2013

Posted on Feb 8th, 2013 - By Brian Burger - 2 Comments

First "Links of Interest" miscellaneous post for 2013, so it's a long one! The fantastic blog Wargaming with Silver Whistle is, like I was…

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1920s Atlas Scans

Posted on Jan 24th, 2013 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

The website Hipkiss' Scans of Old Maps has the 1920 London Geographical Institute's The People's Atlas scanned as fairly high quality images. It…

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Renedra Generics Scenery Bits

Posted on Jan 15th, 2013 - By Brian Burger - 1 Comment

A few weeks ago, I took advantage of J & M Miniatures' offer of free shipping for all of December to order a few bits and pieces of Renedra's…

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Eastern Front Details for the Tabletop

Posted on Jan 4th, 2013 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Rummaging through other people's blogs (as one does) I tripped over this nice two-part series on Eastern Front gates: Part One, Part Two from August…

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Explaining The Rules

Posted on Dec 31st, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

The boardgaming website Shut Up & Sit Down has an excellent, if slightly long, article on explaining the rules, and some of the hazards of being…

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More Horse Painting Links

Posted on Dec 29th, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 2 Comments

I've linked to articles on horse painting before, starting with an excellent and now-vanished GW article, but I've just discovered a huge series of…

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An Ainsty Resin Order

Posted on Dec 21st, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

In some ways, this smallish order of Ainsty resin scenery bits has been a decade in the making; I discovered Ainsty sometime in the very late 1990s…

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World War One Aviation Resources

Posted on Jul 3rd, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Via (of all the random places) a MetaFilter discussion of WW1 flight sims, four zip files full of PDFs of public domain World War One flying books,…

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Links of Interest, 29th June 2012

Posted on Jun 29th, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

I haven't been doing much wargaming stuff the last couple of weeks, for a variety of bad reasons, so things have definitely been quieter here on the…

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A Zeppelin Baggage Sticker

Posted on Jun 9th, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

I haven't posted one of my "World More Pulpy" graphics in ages, but here's something that's been lurking on my harddrive for ages and needs some…

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Links of Interest, 7 June 2012

Posted on Jun 7th, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Been a bit quiet around here recently; blame a very strange and fractured work schedule for that, mostly, as well as the fact that I've got a whole…

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Interwar Iraq (and elsewhere)

Posted on May 31st, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

I've previously posted images from the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archive's Flickr account, but they've just uploaded nearly one thousand images…

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Horse Painting

Posted on May 22nd, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

As I predicted when I linked to it, the very nice Games Workshop tutorial on painting horses has vanished from their website, which is a shame.…

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Links of Interest, 14 May 2012

Posted on May 14th, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

This should be worth watching: Curt of Analogue Hobbies is beginning a Great War in Greyscale project. Most figures in greyscale, officers in a very…

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Links of Interest, 1 May 2012

Posted on May 1st, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

A few things to start your month off right! Paul of Paul's Bods has a rather clever nearly-math-free method of getting a perfectly fitting roofs.…

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Half-Timber & Rural British Architecture

Posted on Apr 19th, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 2 Comments

The English Civil War has become a definite back-burner project around here, but it is still around, along with ambitions to make some more Western…

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Terrain, Fonts and other Links of Interest, 13 April 2012

Posted on Apr 13th, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 5 Comments

To celebrate (?) this fine Friday the 13th, another of my occasional posts of links. Muskie commented on my Youtube scenery videos post to remind…

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Scenery and Terrain Vids on Youtube

Posted on Apr 11th, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 4 Comments

I don't spend a lot of time rummaging around on Youtube, so up until recently I'd missed the immense amount of wargaming material there, especially…

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Red Airships!

Posted on Mar 25th, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

I am, as mentioned in the last post, neck-deep in prep for my Russian Civil War game less than a week away at Trumpeter Salute 2012. Nevertheless,…

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Zeppelins From Foam

Posted on Feb 28th, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

This has minimal bearing on the 28mm pulp gaming we usually do that might involve a zeppelin, but it's such a cool and masterful technique I have to…

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Autogyros, Pulptastic Cars and Such

Posted on Feb 26th, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Via the excellent x planes tumbblog, this rare cabin-equipped autogyro, the Pitcairn PA-19: ... and via the equally excellent Dieselpunk, this…

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Russian Civil War Aviation

Posted on Feb 19th, 2012 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Rummaging around our local hobby store, I found the Testors Classics line of 1/48 scale aircraft. They're cheap (under $10 Cdn per kit) and basic…

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Templates for Cards

Posted on Dec 20th, 2011 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Because I happen to have a stockpile of them around the place, several years ago I started using pre-punched Avery business card sheets as gaming…

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Links of Interest, 9th Dec 2011

Posted on Dec 9th, 2011 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

If you haven't already read Sidney Roundwood's excellent 29 Ways to (try to) Stay Creative: A Wargamer’s List yet, you really do need to. The…

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A Few Painting Tutorials

Posted on Oct 22nd, 2011 - By Brian Burger - 1 Comment

Just a pair of painting tutorials today, linked to mostly so I can find them again when I need to refer to them! Coll Mini Or Not (CMON) has a…

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Pulpish Links of Interest, 13 October 2011

Posted on Oct 13th, 2011 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

A miscelania of links, just so I get back into the habit of posting here! Adventures of the 19XX is a pulptastic webcomic, full of zeppelins,…

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Great War Resources

Posted on Jul 8th, 2011 - By Brian Burger - 1 Comment

Having recently picked up a copy of TooFatLardies' Great War large skirmish rules Through The Mud and the Blood, I went looking for further reading.…

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GZG Links Edited

Posted on Jun 10th, 2011 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Just updated the Ground Zero Games/Dirtside II/Stargrunt II/Full Thrust Links page, which has, like some of the other resources on this site, needed…

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ECW Painting, Other Randomness for 28 May 2011

Posted on May 28th, 2011 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

An entire week since my last substantial post! The horror, how will our dedicated readership cope? I've been painting up an English Civil…

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Zeppelins. We like Zeppelins.

Posted on May 19th, 2011 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

There's zeppelin on the curent banner for this site, and we're notorious pulp gamers, so it should come as no surprise that zeppelins are amongst our…

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Another Review of .45 Adventures 2nd Edition

Posted on May 17th, 2011 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Another review of .45 Adventures 2nd Edition has come out, this one in The Ancible #9, a free-to-download PDF magazine. I hadn't actually grabbed…

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Links: General & Personal Wargaming

Posted on Nov 30th, 2010 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

General & Personal Games Sites: Update, 22 May 2011: Work has started on weeding this list. Don't expect fast progress, but at least it's…

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Links: Commercial Miniatures & Terrain

Posted on Nov 30th, 2010 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

INDEX: Miniatures & Rules Companies. Scenery & Misc. Companies. Miniatures & Rules Companies: (in alphabetical order) The…

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Links: Pulp Wargaming

Posted on Sep 29th, 2010 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Some links of interest to pulp wargamers. An ongoing project; I'll bump it back to the top of the posts when it gets updated and…

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Links: Ground Zero Games

Posted on Sep 23rd, 2010 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

The collected links from the old-format site for Dirtside II, Stargrunt II and Full Thrust, all from Ground Zero Games. In need of weeding and…

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Links: Fantasy Wargaming

Posted on Sep 17th, 2010 - By Brian Burger - 0 Comments

Chipco's Fantasy Rules! Links Chipco publish Fantasy Rules!. They've got a great set of FR! links.Lone Wolf Development makes the excellent…

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