minimods: Modern Warfare Blog

minimods is a blog devoted to 28mm modern wargaming. It looks very interesting.

Mark Twain Quote

The ever-quotable Mark Twain, from 1865: "I don't want any of your statistics. I took your whole batch and lit my pipe with it. I hate your kind of people. You are always ciphering out how much a man's health is injured, and how much his intellect is impaired, and how many pitiful dollars and cents he wastes in the course of ninety-two years' indulgence in the fatal practice of smoking; and in the equally fatal practice of drinking coffee; and in playing billiards occasionally; and in taking a glass of wine at dinner, etc., etc., etc. . . . You never see but one side of the question. You are blind to the fact that most old men in America smoke and drink coffee, although, according to your theory, they ought to have died young; and that hearty old Englishmen drink wine and survive it, and portly old Dutchmen both drink and smoke freely, and yet grow older and fatter all the time. And you never try to find out how much solid comfort, relaxation and enjoyment a man derives from smoking in the course of a lifetime, (and which is worth ten times the money he would save by letting it alone,) nor the appalling aggregate of happiness lost in a lifetime by your kind of people from NOT smoking."

Wargames Central

Wargames Central has several sets of free rules, including Vietnam skirmish (with Battle of Bin Phouc'd report), modern micro armor, cowboys, pirates, and more.

Displaced Miniatures

DisplacedMiniatures.com looks to be a free gallery/article hosting site. There are many high quality pictures from various people available.

A few more steroscopic images

Here are a couple more stereoscopic images I made:

Zaphod's Heads

Zaphod Beeblebrox of TMP has a blog, Zaphod's Heads. On the downside, it's not all miniatures, but on the upside, he's got decent taste in music. He just needs to listen to more Saint Vitus, Clutch or Sleep.

How to Make and See Stereoscopic Photography

Some links on how to see stereoscopic photography if you're having problems: here, here (these are parallel), and here. I find that it helps, as the two blurry images get close together, to pick out a distinctive feature you can make out in both and concentrate only on that.
One tip that might really improve my photography is the One in Thirty Rule, that the pictures should be taken at a distance apart equal to 1/30th the distance to the object being photographed. I tried to keep it about the distance apart my eyes are, which is much further apart than 1/30, probably more on the lines 1/4. This may explain why some of the accidental ones work much better than several of the intentional ones.
Hey, a website devoted to stereoscopic photography!

More Steroscopic pictures

A few more stereoscopic/stereographic pictures I did tonight. Read on...

Small Obsessions

Small Obsessions is a nice miniatures site with lots of information on conversions and some on photography. I love his painting area.

Stereographic Photography of Miniatures

Okay, so while fooling around with my new light tent, I decided to try something I always thought was cool-- stereographic, or stereoscopic, photography. I've never seen miniatures done like this, but see no reason not to. The results were pretty good! Read on...

More on Miniature Photography

Tiny Tin Men has a series of articles on miniature photography: Part 1: Lighting, Part 2: Camera Settings, and Part 3: Post Processing. There is also the MiniPaintingPhotography Yahoo Group.

My Light Tent

I spent MLK day building a light tent for photographing miniatures. Read on...