Fictional Reality

Fictional Reality is an interesting downloadable wargaming magazine. They cover a very wide variety of topics, so check it out.

Nice Custom Terrain

This Dome on Terraforming Planet gallery on TerraGenesis is chock full of fascinating scratch built detail. I alse loved the ideas in the Lighted Figure Bases gallery. I'd love to make something half as nice.

2009

I haven't had time to do much retrospection on 2008. I think it was a pretty good hobby year. I certainly enjoyed my hobby last year, although I can't really think of any major achievement off hand. It was kind of a half year due to birth of my third child (who's doing great). I suppose the things I'm most pleased with were getting my kids to paint and making a moderate amount of decent terrain. So, what is in store for 2009?

The Grand Armies of Liliputia

Freewargamesrules blog link to a new 2mm wargaming site. I love the idea of 2mm.

Vibrating Table

I've been working on a vibrating table for the last couple of weeks (around holidays, family and campaign terrain), based on Ultrawerke's. I've wanted to do something like this for a while, and after seeing his, I realized I had pretty much all the parts he used. The only things I actually had to buy was the "shadowbox" frame I got on sale for $10 and a couple bucks worth of springs.

Cityfight

That's not a Cityfight...THIS is a Cityfight. A superb post-apocalyptic skyscraper-filled city, with custom wallpaper to match the terrain. The Work In Progress forums are just chock full of interesting little (and not so little) gems like this...

Miniaturespace

Miniaturespace has a ton of really inspirational pictures.

dTotal

Okay, I've been on a dice kick lately, but I really like this dTotal die. One single die can roll d2, d3, d4, d5, d6, d7, d8, d10, d12, d20 and d24. A few types require a reroll, like the d10 and d20. Still, it's pretty clever, and would cut down on the number of dice you had to carry around with you. It's not going to be useful for "buckets of dice" games at 25 bucks a pop, though. Still, I'm sure it looks great in your world's largest collection of dice... Update: ...and d30, d40, d50, d60, d70, d80 and d100.

DiceCollector

DiceCollector.com hosts the world's largest collection of dice-- 25,769. I can see that as the sort of activity that starts out fun and exciting, but by the time you have so many that you are referring to databases to prevent duplicates, the real fun is pretty much sucked out of it. I would have to put them all in a tub at some point and jump in. Well, maybe without the d4s...

Game Science Dice

Lou Zocchi of GameScience makes you hate your dice. Continues with part 2. He gets bonus points in my book for claming that "...a lot of gamemasters prematurely kill off characters who deserve to live..." by using bad dice. This man hates bad dice!

The Chambers of Miniatures

The Chambers of Miniatures has a great gallery in its Archive, and I think it would take a couple of days to get through the Nexus of Links.

Dampf's Modeling Page

Dampf's modeling page has a wealth of scratch building projects and really inspirational photos.