Miniatures and Wargaming Blogs

If you want a good blog on role-playing miniatures, wargaming or modeling, then any of the ones listed below are a good place to start. There is a huge variety of material here ranging from tutorials and advice to people simply showing off their handiwork. They are not restricted to fantasy miniatures either. SF and pulp miniatures are there plus historical models from every period and in a range of sizes from 6mm to 40mm.

One thing that is notable in these miniatures blogs is that they are updated a lot less often than their counter-parts in amongst the pure RPG blogging world. This is not surprising given the time it must take to create some of these models. The detail and quality of some of the work is stunning.

General Purpose Blogs with Strong Miniature Content

• The Old Gamers’ Den – “Gaming, painting, collecting, horror movies, comics, artwork, Shenanigans.”
• Rabid Bat Studio – “The miniature painting of Dave Pauwels.”
• Ponatowski’s Legions – “This blog will be a place for me to record my wargaming activities, miniature painting, and whatever else the voices in my head tell me to post…”
• Minivault
• Matakishi’s Tea House
• Jerry’s Big Picture – A Blog about Art, Miniatures, Games, and Life
• Geektactica – “painting, gaming, and geeking of all forms in St. John’s, Newfoundland (that’s in Canada kids! east coast)”
• Arizona Wargamer – “Gaming | Modeling | Painting”
• An Hour of Wolves & Shattered Shields – “A Miniature Gaming Fan Site”
• Sergeant Crunch’s Miniature Madness – “Where I ramble on about my adventures in the wild world of miniatures and miniature wargaming.”
• Diary of a Grognerd – “is a blog perpetuated by one Steven G. Saunders, a mega-nerd who hates to keep his trap shut on how he feels about things.”
• Tabletop Gaming News
• Adventures In Miniature Gaming – “A place for me to post about my miniature gaming hobby experiences.”
• Miniature Wargaming
• Dr Faust’s Painting Clinic
• Coffee swillin’ analog gamer
• The General’s Tent
• Iron Mitten
• Little Lead Heroes – Andy’s Mostly Miniature Wargaming Blog

Miniatures Blogs – Fantasy, SF and More

• JRN-Works – Painted Miniatures by Jakob Rune Nielsen
• Grimm’s Hanger – Tales of Pulp & Glory
• Painted Figures by George Hatzopoulos
• Dodge’s Painting Blog
• Cianty’s Tabletop Wargaming Blog
• Chicago Terrain Factory
• Carmen’s fun painty time – 28mm and 40mm scale painting and building, projects, tutorials and tips. Visit my links, too; Lots of good fun to be found on the Internet!
• Blog figurines et jeux de rôles – “J’en ai plein mon bureau, alors maintenant j’en laisse sur le net !”
• Audrey’s Oubliette – “My various projects, thoughts and ideas”
• Drunken Samurai Painting Blog – “This blog is devoted to documenting my miniature painting hobby as well as discussions of wargaming.”
• Brandlin – “This is not the blog you are looking for. Move along. Move along! ”
• The Stuff of Legends
• Alex Z

Blogs about Fantasy Wargaming Miniatures

• There and Blog Again… – Miniature Gaming in Middle Earth
• The Woodland Realm
• Bald Joes Minis
• The Artisan’s Edge
• The Miniature Gallery

Games Workshop / Warhammer 40K / Warhammer Fantasy Battles Blogs

• From the Warp – A Warhammer 40,000 hobbyist’s blog dedicated to Modeling, Painting and Gaming and Home of the FtW Blogger Group for “like minded 40k bloggers ”
• The Inner Geek
• Plastic Legions – Chronicles and commentary on Warhammer Fantasy Battles, Warhammer 40K, and miniature modeling and painting for wargames.
• Da Green Skins
• Running from the Law
• Cursed Treasures - “Here is my little section of cyber-space dedicated to my hobby of war gaming. I will post thoughts, ideas, reviews and what ever else my mind can come up with.”
• Vampire Count - “Follow the exploits of Jawaballs as he creates and plays his Vampire Counts army for the Warhammer Fantasy Battle miniature gaming system.”
• Tincture Adept – Painted Miniatures By Jarrett Lee
• Ultrawerke – “A space to share modelling techniques on many subjects. While mainly centered upon scratchbuilding Warhammer 40K vehicles, you will also find the occasional WWII model.”
• Mik’s Minis

Blogs on Historical Wargaming, Modeling and Miniatures

• Too Much Lead – “An English wargamer reminisces about years of gaming, documents his many future defeats and offers whatever tips about modelling cross his mind at the time. Hopefully it’ll be entertaining too!”
• Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog – “Games I have played as well as news (and pictures!) about my current modelling and painting projects.”
• The Town of Imelda – “Here you will find the story of the boom town of Imelda in 1866 on the American / Mexican border. The story unfolds using the “legends of the old west rules” from Warhammer historical.”
• Soapy’s Workshop
• Small World Productions –
• Sgt Perry’s Heroes – Its in French
• The Life and Times of a Wargames Butterfly – “or: How I learned to stop worrying and accepted that I’ll never finish painting my figures”
• Load Ashram’s House of War
• elladan.de – “miniatures & terrain”
• Plastic Soldier Review – “for news and information on 1:72 scale plastic soldiers”
• The Miniatures Page
• Echos of Glory – A Blog dedicated to 15mm & 25mm historical wargaming
• MacPhee’s Miniature Men – “Come see my miniature armies take shape! I include miniature reviews, painting tips, photos of works in progress, and photos of finished units. You can also see pictures of games I’m playing.”
• The Great Redoubt – “Yet another gamer who’s read some books and now thinks he’s an expert. Commentary on miniatures and board wargames from Minnesota.”
• Tiny Tin Men – “Miniature wargaming, or — more prosaically — playing with toy soldiers.”
• Tabletop Wargames Blog – “A Blog about Wargames and wargamers. ”
• Saxe-Bearstein – “Being a record of an imaginary 18th century Germanic principality as relating to the design and construction of a tabletop army for gentlemanly wargaming.”
• Repple Depple – “A miniatures gaming blog featuring reports and pictures from my latest games and the latest stuff off my painting table”
• Patrick’s Hobby Shed
• The Pewter-Pixel Wars
• Mandarin’s Manor – Miniature gaming, painting, boardgaming in all its various guises
• Camp Cromwell – “This is a group of friends who play wargames in Tasmania”
• General de Brigade – “Brigade Level Wargaming”

Blogs & Web Sites by Semi-pro or Pro Figure Painters & Modelers

• TW Figurines
• Tabletop Terrain
• PAINT FOR THE PAINT GOD!!!!!!! – Iron Warboss’s Painting Blog!
• Destroyer Minis
• Paintrix Miniatures – Works from Jen Haley
• Fell Shadow Studio
• Iron Dog Studios
• Steve Dean Painting
• Chest of Colors
• T H Miniatures