Full Battle Rattle Miniatures is a relatively new company which has decided to focus upon the Canadian infantry who have served with ISAF in Iraq and beyond. The phrase ‘Full Battle Rattle’ is a military slang term for going on patrol or into battle with full equipment loads. With this in
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Mad Robot Miniatures is an American company which specializes in providing resin parts to create or customize miniatures. We were sent two sets of miniatures from just one of their ‘mix and match’ ranges. The world of customizable resin parts has seen a great deal of growth in recent years. Although
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Hysterical Games appeared on the wargames scene with a plan to re-vamp the decidedly different Panzerfauste range, first marketed in the 1990s by Wessex Games. As a ‘historo-fantasy’ set of rules and miniatures range based upon World War Two, they once more unleashed Germanic Dwarves and British Orcs upon the
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Raven Banner Games aim to offer something more than the usual for the American Civil War gamer, picking subjects that aren’t always tackled by other manufacturers. We decided to pick out a few figures from various packs in order to convey an overall impression of the range. One of the first
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Warhansa is a Russian company, more a consortium of sculptors, who produce a number of ranges in resin. One of their ranges is a variety of different types of figures that would grace the collection of any modern era gamer. Although produced in a slightly salmon pink resin, these are incredibly
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Footsore Miniatures continue to support their Dark Age range, adding mounted warriors to supplement their infantry. However, work continues apace on their new venture, a set of rules with streetwise, toga wearing thugs battling amidst the filthy streets behind the splendour of Imperial Rome. Having fast raiders or flank guards for
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This rag-tag bunch are a pack of eight forthcoming ’Foreign Mercenaries’ for SAGA The Crescent & The Cross, from Gripping Beast. The expected retail price is £14, in line with other C&C packs. Foreign Mercenaries are one of the special ‘Dogs of War’ unit from the C&C rulebook, they can be
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There are so many companies out there producing miniatures that it’s difficult to connect with all of them. After meeting up at Colours with the very helpful staff of Parkfield Miniatures, we thought we’d share some of the ranges they stock. The company covers whole swathes of history and produces miniatures
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Foundry continue to release and re-release many of the miniatures that they once stocked or find amongst their master castings. Their range of 28mm World War Two figures contains a number of familiar looking Home Guard heroes and more, now with additional support in the fight against German invasion. The armoured
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North Star Military Figures and Osprey Games have teamed up once again to bring a new set of rules and supporting miniatures onto the market. Oathmark is the name of the rules and the miniatures will be available in plastic and metal. We got our hands on one of the
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Victrix has built its reputation on high quality plastic miniatures, first for the Napoleonic period and then branching out into Ancients. Its Warriors of Antiquity range contains a host of useful, multipose plastic figures and continues to grow. Their latest offering are these Macedonian Greek Successor Heavy Cavalry, which come with
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Crusader Miniatures, manufactured and distributed by North Star Miniatures, have added more Early War figures to their World War Two range. This time, they have created the first in a number of packs representing the brave members of the Polish Army who faced the invasion of their country by Germany
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For use with Frostgrave: Ghost Archipelago, these female miniatures are designed to represent some of the standard supporting Crew members. The first release consists of four figures, armed with a range of weapons. One wields a trident, the next a sword and shield, one with a hammer or mattock and the
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Perry Mins are releasing around twenty new packs of 28mm Napoleonic Spanish. We were given a sample selection of figures from across the range. We asked Alan Perry to tell us a bit about the new release - "These are a selection of most of the uniforms that will be covered
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GEG continue to release new figures for their horror variant of Dead Man’s Hand - The Curse of Dead Man’s Hand. This new blister pack contains three ‘Cursed' figures (AKA Wild West Zombies). We have a female child, woman and an unfortunate fellow who has had half his body ripped off
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We came back from a recent visit to Gripping Beast we loads of photos of forthcoming SAGA: Aetius and Arthur releases. These mounted figures are Late Roman Cataphracts - the legionary heavy horsemen bodyguard of King Arthur. These Foot figures are from a forthcoming A&A 'Roman Deserters’ Warband box set of 8
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There are so many products available from this long-standing British company that it is difficult to know where to start. However, having not reviewed anything from the company for quite a long time, we decided to focus in on some of the more unusual products for one particular range. The Cold
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Conquest Games have an increasingly useful range of plastic and metal miniatures. Alongside generic warriors on foot and mounted, there are heroes or outlaws who hide in the forests themselves. The most recent impeding release are Medieval Knights, plastic multipose figures and their mounts who can be assembled using a number
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Although known for producing high quality historical miniatures, Gringo 40s have been known to branch out into other genres. Yet these new genres maintain the same high quality that we’ve come to expect from the company. One of these ranges is the Zombie Hunters, which currently consists of 15 packs, mostly
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Warlord Games are supporting the release of their Clash of Eagles supplement with a swathe of new releases for the French Napoleonic armies. Some of the most recent are these Imperial Guard Foot Artillery, either firing or laying a howitzer, a 6-pounder or a 12-pounder gun. Each of these guns come
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Warlord Games strive to provide a multitude of options throughout their rules and miniature ranges. To that end, they have become masters of using existing models to create new types of units and warriors. One of the most recent examples of this is the Napoleonic Polish Line Light Horse Lancers. Using
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Ever since Modiphius Entertainment gained the licence to create a Star Trek roleplaying game, the company announced they would be producing miniatures. Well, they have been true to their word, firstly creating excellent likenesses of the crews of two versions of the Enterprise and two of the races who opposed
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Minifigs continues to support its 10mm Cold War, releasing armour, APCs, support vehicles and infantry for a host of nations. The most recent releases are the Ferret Mk1, the Humber Pig and the Conqueror heavy tank for the British, the West German HS-30 forward observation vehicle, the Chinese YW-531 APC and
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Steve Barber Models have released one of their latest aspects of their Ancients range in the form of a number of packs of Goths, those dreaded adversaries of Rome, amongst others. The pack received for review consists of five miniatures, although one of them is best described as in an ‘inactive’
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Lucid Eye continues to forge ahead, creating more miniatures from the talented hands of sculptor Steve Saleh and striving ever onwards with settings and rules. This time around, we have items from three of the current concepts. Firstly, for the main Savage Core range, we have The Id, the alien masters
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The Bombshell Miniatures range of figures consists of a series of individual characters over a number of ranges. We were sent a selection from the Babes and Counterblast ranges by the official European distributor, West Wind Productions Ltd. here in the U.K. The Babes range consists of a whole variety of
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Footsore Miniatures continue to expand their ranges, with top sculptor Bill Thornhill churning out top notch sculpt after top notch sculpt. This time around, we take a look at some of the offerings from the Dark Ages range. We’ve picked out four packs to take a look at, amongst them some
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Any force created for use with World War Two rules should have a balance between infantry, armour and support weapons. However, it should also include transport vehicles, with one of the most used being the truck. Warlord Games have produced a plastic kit of the iconic German Opel Blitz and
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Having recently released the Fighting First supplement for use with Flames of War V.4, Battlefront have followed this up with the first mid war tank release for the US forces in plastic. The box contains five identical frames that allow you to create a ‘platoon’ of M4 Shermans, the A1 version
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Mike Owen of Artizan Designs has created his own take upon the Weird Wild West. He’s added a Victorian Science Fiction element, blended with facets of the supernatural and practitioners of the Dark Arts. The premise is that the Union, using chemical weapons and firebombs, laid waste to the Confederate States
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