Incredibly Useful Colonial & VSF Miniature Gaming Sites!
Character, Invention & Story Ideas!
Retailers & Miniature Manufactures!
Where Did You Get Those Goggles & Pith Helmet?!
Please note:
all links on this page have been checked as of January
25, 2009.
All URLs should be up to date.
Many older sites that are no longer in existence have been deleted.
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Rules Related Sites!
1889: The Iron Frontier Victorian landship combat rules.
G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T. Home
page The web based home for all that is
G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T.
GASLIGHT
rules The
G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T. list on Yahoo!Groups. A great group of folks who actually play
the game. A place to ask questions & bounce ideas around.
Heliograph Incorporated Publishers of
the current edition of the Space: 1889 tabletop RPG & Transactions of the
Royal Martian Geographical Society.
Le
Grand Cirque A VSF racing game, often run at conventions. Highly
recommended, considering I finally won a game at Historicon. The complete rules, charts, links to recaps, etc.
The Sword
and the Flame Classic Colonial wargame rules by Larry Brom, currently available in it's
20th anniversary edition.
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Incredibly Useful Colonial & VSF Miniature Gaming Sites!
The Amazing Adventures of the Red Shadow Colonial Adventure Wargaming in Africa 1880-1920.
Articulated Rot & Steam Launched Drivel Contrivances & Conveyances of War in the Steam Age!
Bryan Broocks' Victorian Science Fiction Page 15mm goodness as well as his Victorian Views of Mars Page.
By
Jingo! Colonial
History & Wargames Page.
The Colonial Angle Colonial
miniature wargaming site.
Colonial Wargames
(15mm) site by Bob Cordery.
Dogs
of War GASLIGHT page Part of the Historical Hobbies site.
Dortmund Amateur Wargamer Victorian Mars Patrol pages.
The Empire Club Conquerors of the Lost Continent!
German
Colonial Uniforms "This
website is intended to give an insight into the uniforms of the Imperial German
Colonial and Overseas Forces from 1884-1918 for the English speaking wargamer,
modeller or military historian. Until now there has been very little available
in the English language on the uniforms worn by German forces in these obscure
but fascinating side shows of the Great War and Colonial Era."
Major General Tremorden Rederring's
Colonial-era Wargaming Page Enjoyable Victorian-ear warfare with hobby
miniatures. This is where the "soda bottles to zeppelins" article can be
found!
The Miniatures
Page A Web-magazine for Miniature Wargamers. Covers it all: historical,
fantasy, sci-fi, etc.
Morval Earth The Lost Victorian
Colonies in Morvalistan.
Nap Nuts Singapore The Colonial Science Fiction section of their site.
Patrick's Hobby Shed
A blog about his experiences with VSF, Zombie games & more.
Ponape!
Victorian Piracy and Adventure in the South Pacific!
**NEW** The Shastapsh Chronicles A VSF blog with lots of inspirational photos.
Sir Peter in
Africa Home of the Madison Gamers: Exploits in Darkest
Africa.
Sir Rand McNally's Colonial Page.
The Steam and the Flame Victorian Era Science Fiction Version of The Sword and the Flame.
Team für historische Simulationen A German site with a gallery photos.
Trevor's Colonial Wargames Page Military modelling
and wargaming, with an emphasis on the Colonial period.
The US Mogdonazian colonization plan -
a VSF miniature wargaming site by John Bell.
Victoriana Adventure
gaming in a kinder, gentler time: Victorian Science Fiction.
VSF Wargaming
- A GASLIGHT powered Victorian Adventure Gaming site.
Yours in a White Wine Sauce! A gentleman's journey into insanity and VSF gaming ... in 1/1200 (2mm) scale.
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Character, Invention & Story Ideas!
How to
Draw SteamPunk Machines Really inspirational images.
Dime Novels and
Penny Dreadfuls A site devoted to the
topic.
Fantastic, Mysterious,
and Adventurous Victoriana Notable and Obscure Characters and Places of
popular Victorian Fiction
History of Robots in
the Victorian Era Part of the Big Red Hair site.
The Museum
of Retro Technology A collection of photos & articles.
Sherlock Holmes Pastiche
Characters "The site is essentially a listing of historical, fictional
and canonical characters appearing, or mentioned in published Sherlock Holmes
pastiches, parodies and other Sherlockian writings."
VERNE+100 A site dedicated to steampunk. The site is in Polish &
English!
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Retailers & Miniature Manufactures!
Armorcast
Historical, Fantasy, SciFi & VSF resin kits of buildings, terrain &
contraptions.
Black Tree
Design (was Harlequin, then Icon, now BTD) Historical (Zulu &
British) figures.
Brigade
Games Official GASLIGHT figures, as well as retailer for Foundry, Eureka
Pax Limpopo and many, many more.
Castaway Arts Colonial troop
figures.
Copplestone
Castings RETURN to DARKEST AFRICA (colonials) as well as his
BACK of BEYOND (1920's pulp) miniature line.
Crocodile Games War Gods of
Ægyptus miniatures. Great for Egyptian gods/aliens.
Eureka Miniatures Colonial, Pax
Limpopo & "100 Club" vehicles & figures.
Ground Zero Games
(GZG) Their own
miniature lines as well as a U.K. Source for Eureka's figures.
The Honourable Lead Boiler Suit Company
VSF & Historical figures, vehicles, dinosaurs, and more.
Iron
Wind Metals Brand New figures as well as Classic Ral Partha miniatures.
Here be 'raptors.
Ironclad Miniatures Some really nice 28mm Steam Tanks!
J & T Miniatures Bicorne,
Stockades and Settlements, Merrimack & more.
Jeff Valent Studios Victorian
civilians figures amongst other items.
The London
War Room Figures,
vehicles, naval guns & shipboard armaments, as well as
Parroom Station
miniatures.
Monolith
Designs Terrain & a really neat line of figures in their Disturbia
line for VSF nightmares.
Micro Mark Small tool specialist.
Old Glory Miniatures
Historical figures, buildings & such.
Parroom Station
VSF, Martian &
personality figures.
Pinnacle
Entertainment Group (PEG) Great Rail Wars miniatures.
RAFM Miniatures & Games
Both Space: 1889
& Call of Cthulhu
miniatures.
Robert L. Bowling Painting Service: RLBPS A
U.S. source for many imported miniature gaming products, including
HLBSC.
Scheltrum
Miniatures VSF Figures & vehicles, as
well as other goodies!
Steve Jackson Games
(STG)
A few, really neat Steampunk miniatures.
Get them while you can! As of August 11, 2003, STG has
gotten OUT of the miniatures making business. Direct link to their Warehouse
23 online store searching for:
"STEAMPUNK
MINIATURES".
Walthers Model train supplies - bits,
flock, tools, the odd model, etc.
Warrior
Online for OVER THE WIRE GAMES line of ENGLAND INVADED
figures.
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Where Did You Get Those Goggles & Pith Helmet?!
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Studio Foglio Online Store Creators of -amongst many other epic works- the GIRL GENIUS comic book series, and purveyors of related merchandise.
Village Hat Shop A selection of different pith helmets, as well as many other examples of odd & historical headgear. |
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