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7/13/2025, 2:00:54 AM
>>96073819
Plenty of them. Chronicles from the Warzone was a big one, they had cheap issues all over the states and there was a free hobby excerpt in all of Heartbreaker's catalogs stateside. Pic very related. Shadis and Inquest occasionally had hobbying articles back when I was a subscriber in the 1990s (one of them is how I found out about Reaper's L5R miniatures). Ral Partha and Alderac both published hobby guides in their catalogs as well, and IIRC AEG did some hobby articles for a while in their own rag before Clan War kicked the bucket. With Battletech it was kind of a mixed bag, some mags did and some didn't. Generally-speaking if it was a general-interest publication or a SF mag with gaming content they didn't, but the upjumped hobbyist 'zines like MechForce and Battletechnology absolutely did.
At the turn of the Millennium most companies' websites had a hobby section or a hobby blog as well. Reaper still has a few archived, the stuff on Heartbreaker's old website is largely vanished even from the Internet Archive. Once Privateer Press got started they had a huge hobby section in their house rag and a blog as well. IIRC Corvus Belli did, but I wasn't really invested in Infinity at the time
On the Japanese side there are entire hobby magazines for wargaming, especially embellishing stock kits. The Maschinen Kreiger franchise in particular grew up out of an anime fan magazine, but the mechamusume guys and some of the SF gamers go way beyond the initial kit. I've seen mags on conversions and painting dating back into the 1980s, including at least one guy who was doing model-based conversions and garage casts for hex and chit games
>currently
Maelstrom's Edge and Anvil Industries are still fighting the good fight today. I haven't seen many others championing scratch builds and heavy conversion, unfortunately.
Plenty of them. Chronicles from the Warzone was a big one, they had cheap issues all over the states and there was a free hobby excerpt in all of Heartbreaker's catalogs stateside. Pic very related. Shadis and Inquest occasionally had hobbying articles back when I was a subscriber in the 1990s (one of them is how I found out about Reaper's L5R miniatures). Ral Partha and Alderac both published hobby guides in their catalogs as well, and IIRC AEG did some hobby articles for a while in their own rag before Clan War kicked the bucket. With Battletech it was kind of a mixed bag, some mags did and some didn't. Generally-speaking if it was a general-interest publication or a SF mag with gaming content they didn't, but the upjumped hobbyist 'zines like MechForce and Battletechnology absolutely did.
At the turn of the Millennium most companies' websites had a hobby section or a hobby blog as well. Reaper still has a few archived, the stuff on Heartbreaker's old website is largely vanished even from the Internet Archive. Once Privateer Press got started they had a huge hobby section in their house rag and a blog as well. IIRC Corvus Belli did, but I wasn't really invested in Infinity at the time
On the Japanese side there are entire hobby magazines for wargaming, especially embellishing stock kits. The Maschinen Kreiger franchise in particular grew up out of an anime fan magazine, but the mechamusume guys and some of the SF gamers go way beyond the initial kit. I've seen mags on conversions and painting dating back into the 1980s, including at least one guy who was doing model-based conversions and garage casts for hex and chit games
>currently
Maelstrom's Edge and Anvil Industries are still fighting the good fight today. I haven't seen many others championing scratch builds and heavy conversion, unfortunately.
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