Used to be DEEP into competitive miniatures wargaming and converting miniatures for them, but with kids, there just isn’t time. Now I convert pencils instead…
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Competitive pencil wargaming? Now that sounds interesting 
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As a collector of drawing instruments, I’d be interested to know what any of the wargaming/RPG crowd here think of the range rulers and other accessories that are sometimes modelled on old scientific instruments.
For example, Games Workshop’s Warhammer “engineer’s ranging set” includes something that looks like a cross between a sector and an engineer’s four-fold rule, along with an elaborate pair of wing dividers that stylistically sit somewhere between steampunk and medieval astrolabe:
They also made a similarly embellished flame template and blast template (I assume the latter being the protractor-like item from the link below):
https://www.reddit.com/r/ageofsigmar/comments/16pel59/need_help_identifying_this/
Other range rulers are more basic, but I have noticed some designs have scalloped or notched edges for precisely locating miniatures.
Although I don’t have any of these (yet), they still interest me as a sub-genre of recreational measuring instrument. There also seems to be an as-yet untapped potential to create wargaming accessories that reflect the complex, diverse history of genuine scientific instruments from different periods.
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No way!? When I was 12 I won a competition for painting a Citadel Miniatures dragon and the Games Workshop staff gave me a saturday job running the painting table there. My first teaching gig! Grsat to see the company doing so well now…
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In many games, speed and correctness is equally mandatory. There is lots of ”widgets” looking like a rectangle with a corner removed resulting in four different and exact measurements, often 1”, 6”, 2”, 4” going clockwise from the removed upper right corner.
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