A page for link lists, directories and similar relating to wargaming websites.
Decals for 1/1200 Miniatures
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…
Remembrance Day Weekend, November 2022
Went to our local municipal Remembrance Day ceremony in person this year, after two years of live streamed ceremonies watched from my computer, which…
Links of Interest, 9 January 2022
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…
Links of Interest, 11 August 2021
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…
Links of Interest, 4 April 2021
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…
Links of Interest, 10 March 2021
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…
Links of Interest, 30 September 2020
Busy month but not much gaming activity of any sort!Over on the awesome Lead Adventure Forum, Silent Invader discussed a really neat…
Links of Interest, 4 Sept 2020
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…
Links of Interest, 17 August 2020
Nice little sculpting tutorial on doing feathers in greenstuff from JuanHidalgo Miniatures. I really like short, approachable tutorials like this,…
Links of Interest, 1 July 2020
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…
Links of Interest, 14 June 2020
Wargames Designs is partly a webstore, with some good looking historical wargaming flags in a variety of scales, among other things, but they also…
Links of Interest, 27 January 2020
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…
Links of Interest, 12 December 2019
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…
Improving Old Terrain
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…
Links of Interest, 22 June 2017
A handful of links I thought were worth sharing this week. Historical Enterprises, Inc are a historical reenactors garb/costuming company with all…
Links of Interest, 16 May 2017
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…
Links of Interest, 24 Feb 2017
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…
Links of Interest, 15 September 2016
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…
Links of Interest, 26 April 2015
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…
Links of Interest, 25 March 2015
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…
Links of Interest, 4 March 2015
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…
The Great War Week by Week
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…
Back! (Again…)
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…
LInks of Interest, 5 Sept 2014
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…
The Atlantic on WW1
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…
Links of Interest, 23 April 2014
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,…
Third Anglo-Afghan War Resources
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…
Canada’s 1919 Siberian Expedition
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…
Links of Interest, 4 November 2013
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…
Links of Interest, 6 October 2013
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…
Links of Interest, 3 September 2013
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…
Links of Interest, 14 April 2013
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…
Links of Interest, 28 March 2013
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…
Links of Interest, 8th Feb 2013
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…
1920s Atlas Scans
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…
Renedra Generics Scenery Bits
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…
Eastern Front Details for the Tabletop
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…
Explaining The Rules
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…
More Horse Painting Links
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…
An Ainsty Resin Order
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…
World War One Aviation Resources
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,…
Links of Interest, 29th June 2012
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…
A Zeppelin Baggage Sticker
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…
Links of Interest, 7 June 2012
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…
Interwar Iraq (and elsewhere)
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…
Horse Painting
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.…
Links of Interest, 14 May 2012
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…
Links of Interest, 1 May 2012
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.…
Half-Timber & Rural British Architecture
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…
Terrain, Fonts and other Links of Interest, 13 April 2012
To celebrate (?) this fine Friday the 13th, another of my occasional posts of links. Muskie commented on my Youtube scenery videos post to remind…
Scenery and Terrain Vids on Youtube
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…
Red Airships!
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,…
Zeppelins From Foam
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…
Autogyros, Pulptastic Cars and Such
Via the excellent x planes tumbblog, this rare cabin-equipped autogyro, the Pitcairn PA-19: ... and via the equally excellent Dieselpunk, this…
Russian Civil War Aviation
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…
Templates for Cards
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…
Links of Interest, 9th Dec 2011
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…
A Few Painting Tutorials
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…
Pulpish Links of Interest, 13 October 2011
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,…
Great War Resources
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.…
GZG Links Edited
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…
ECW Painting, Other Randomness for 28 May 2011
An entire week since my last substantial post! The horror, how will our dedicated readership cope? I've been painting up an English Civil…
Zeppelins. We like Zeppelins.
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…
Another Review of .45 Adventures 2nd Edition
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…
Links: General & Personal Wargaming
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…
Links: Commercial Miniatures & Terrain
INDEX: Miniatures & Rules Companies. Scenery & Misc. Companies. Miniatures & Rules Companies: (in alphabetical order) The…
Links: Pulp Wargaming
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…
Links: Ground Zero Games
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…
Links: Fantasy Wargaming
Chipco's Fantasy Rules! Links Chipco publish Fantasy Rules!. They've got a great set of FR! links.Lone Wolf Development makes the excellent…