I’ve compiled a listing of the various hobby blogs I’ve encountered around the web. It’s far from exhaustive – there’s bound to be more out there I haven’t found yet – but it’s a start. Let this be a useful starting point for you, since these days search engines are getting less and less useful for finding anything that doesn’t have an advertising budget behind it.
This list is also downloadable as an OPML file, which can be easily be imported into most feed readers.
Blogroll
- 28mm Victorian Warfare
- Lots of interesting minis with a pulp-historical bent. Really cool and provides a taste of something different.
- Anne’s Immaterium
- Some warhammer, some hobby tips.
- Azazel’s Bitz Box
- Long running blog where Azazel has shared lots of projects. Lots of other blogs linked in the sidebar.
- Big Geordie Geek
- Bit of a mixture of Warhammer 40k minis, boardgames and some computer games.
- Bogelwald
- Interesting mixture of historic and fantasy minies, with terrain making as well.
- Carmen’s Fun Painty Time
- A long running blog that covers painting and scratch building minis for a wide variety of themes
- Carrion Crow’s Buffet
- Cool ideas and projects, with a focus on narrative wargaming.
- Convert or Die
- One more guy, painting minis and sharing their journey.
- Dead Dicks Tavern and Temporary Lodging
- A long term painter who shares their projects often posts challenges for others to join in on.
- Dragons of Lancasm
- Tabletop centric, with lots of minis painted up to support the campaign
- Fantorical
- A remarkably varied collection of miniatures, from a wide range of sculptors
- Fawcett Avenue Conscripts
- The Fawcett Avenue Conscripts are a group of table-top wargamers who get together. They regularly share their painted projects and battle reports.
- Forgotten Heroes
- Comic books and other pop-culture minis, painted up as cool projects.
- Freodom
- Gisby’s Gaming Blog
- Lots of cool and varied miniatures and conversions, from historical to sci-fi.
- Guru Pig – the gaming Guru
- Minis, terrain and homebrew rulesets
- I Am Gerard Thomas
- Gerard shares his journey designing his own rulesets – worth checking out if you're interested in game design or homebrewing.
- Imperial Rebel Ork
- Varied and interesting projects.
- Just Add Water
- A long running blog focused on historical wargaming. Also has a long list of other blogs shared in the sidebar.
- Just Needs Varnish
- A cool mixture of historical and steampunk inspired figures.
- K C Holt Miniature Painting
- A commission painter who regularly shares photos of his finished works.
- Lead ‘n’ Paint
- One guy painting his way through a lot of old minis and sharing his work.
- Leadballoony
- Old school Warhammer (2nd ed and Rogue Trader) figures.
- Lonely Gamers Blog
- Lots of battle reports, primarily for historical war-gaming (this site also seems to be a shop selling historical minis).
- Mike A Morin
- Mark creates and runs homebrew scenarios for cons.
- Musk’s Miniatures
- Muskie McKay writes about hobbying and tabletop war-gaming.
- NeurOnToSomething
- Mixed blog that covers minis, books and a lot of other thoughts.
- Not Quite Mechanised
- Blog related to the Not Quite Mechanised ruleset for historical wargaming
- Pandaemonium Miniatures
- Pat’s 1:72 Military Diorama’s
- Historical military dioramas
- Peter’s Notebook
- PM Painting
- Mixture of oldhammer and eclectic miniatures, all looking pretty cool.
- Rantings from under the Wargames table
- A wide variety of sci-fi and fantasy minis, also regularly participates in various community challenges.
- Scar Hand Painting
- A commission painter who regularly shares tips and tutorials.
- Skinflint Games (Apocalypse: Earth)
- A blog by Skinflint Games, who created the Apocalypse Earth ruleset
- SP’s Projects
- Wargaming rulesets, with a focus on modern scenarios
- Space Dinosaur Miniatures
- Blog focused on the hobby aspect of wargaming, covering various topics from high fantasy to historical
- The Bovine Overlord
- Mixture of painted minis and battle reports from some gamers in Edinburgh
- The Crooked Staff
- The Imperfect Modeller
- Wonderful range of cool miniatures, from clowns to nights to dinosaur cavalry.
- The Lair of Evil Dr Ganymede
- The Responsible One’s Wargaming Blog
- The Wargaming Erratic
- From Bronze Age to Baroque and Beyond, collecting miniatures, painting, mapping, gaming, creating fantastic historical stories
- Tiikerikani
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sponge
- Wargames Terrain Workshop
- Blog written by a guy who makes terrain on commission. Lots of photos of his completed work.
- Warpstone Pile
- WickedPaintah
- Regularly shares photos of their completed projects with commentary.
- Wilbur the Red
- Wyrd Fish
- Infrequently updated, but often full of interesting thoughts and news about hobby communities on the Fediverse
- Yet Another Dropzone, Commander?
Link Submission
If you know of any other hobby blogs, please submit them so that I can add them to the catalogue. To be considered for inclusion a blog must meet the following criteria:
- It must be related to miniature painting, terrain making or tabletop war-gaming in some way.
- There must be a working RSS feed.
- The contents of the blog must not be overly commercial.