The arrival of Crooked Dice new releases at WiTower usually incites a discussion or two. The main discussion point this month was who was everyone’s favourite character in the 1980s TV classic The A-Team. Project Manager James surprised nobody by revealing he’s a fan of Hannibal (they have a mutual love
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Hot on the heels of the plastic Prussian Infantry box set (see our in-depth feature in Wi404) we’ve snagged some new and (at the time of writing) unseen Franco-Prussian War figures from sculptor Michael. We even got some finely painted versions for you to enjoy spinning around! Prussian Infantry Command First up
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We’re unboxing a new plastic box set from PSC and building a couple of the six 1/72 scale WW2 trucks inside! Quite a bargain from PSC here - a set of six Russian GAZ trucks that average out at just £5 ($7 US) each. Included in the box are six frames
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In this unbagging video, we’re taking a look at the new hard plastic, multi-pose Norman Infantry from Victrix. This large and bulky bag allows for the construction of sixty 28mm figures in total. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xgafU7o4PE&feature=youtu.be The text below is a transcript of the video, for those who prefer to read rather than watch. As
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Arriving too late for us to get them online properly this week, but too cool to leave unmentioned, it's 7TV's extremely pretty new boxed game 7TV: Fantasy! 7TV: Fantasy is the latest game to come from Crooked Dice's partnership with Edge Hill University Press, created thanks to the involvement of students
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We love a good bit of terrain in the Wargames Illustrated office and we love good MDF kits. They have brought a wealth of diversity and possibilities to people's terrain collections and ensured home gamers can have packed gaming boards at a relatively low price. Outlands Terrain is a new company
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We’re riding a wave of Wild West excitement at the moment; while much of that buzz stems from the upcoming plastics for Dead Man’s Hand it doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate goodies from elsewhere. Knuckleduster Miniatures’ latest are a fine example, a set of gunslingers - the Avenging Angels -
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This box is all about the frames. To be more precise, it’s about the same frame eight times as that’s all you get! None of the instructions, bases, decals, and so on that a company like Games Workshop includes with its plastics are present here; that might be disappointing, if not
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There's an “I’m cuttin’ me own throat ‘ere guv!” abundance of figures in Wargames Atlantic’s Prussian Reserve set. Inside this little box are no less than 60 hard plastic, multi-part, 28mm figures for your Franco Prussian adventures. Crikey, that’s a lot of figures for the standard box set price of £25
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Cornwall based Piran’s Warriors began as a figure painting company but have now branched out into producing their own miniatures, starting with a 28mm range of Austrians for the Second Italian War of Independence / Franco- Austrian War of 1859. The infantry range is sold as individual miniatures, or they can
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One of the most appealing things about Stargrave is the various options that allow you to create a cool crew. If you want that crew themed to existing intellectual property you can make the game work nicely with Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Starship Troopers, Firefly, Fireball XL-5 [You weirdo! -
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This set has caused much excitement at Wi Tower, offering fans of Dead Man’s Hand (that’d be us!) some plastic Old West miniatures from Great Escape Games for the first time. We’re going to be quick on the draw, put our cards on the table, and summarise our feelings right
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Taking clear inspiration from Sharpe, Wargames Atlantic's British Riflemen feature some likenesses that fans are sure to enjoy. But before we go down the foxhole of Sharpe nostalgia let's examine the box set more closely. Part of their Napoleon’s Wars range, these Riflemen are a generous set of 32 multi-part, hard
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Wargamers can be a bit sniffy about using 2D figures, often saying that they are not “real” miniatures. If you hold the belief that if it does not weigh a ton in lead and takes you a year to collect and paint then it’s not real wargaming. Well, please read
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These two houses represent the start of what promises to be a sizeable range of buildings in Adrian’s Walls fully constructed and painted for the ‘Renaissance Onwards’ range. It’s worth underlining these last two points; the buildings come constructed and painted. That’s Adrian’s Walls shtick, they provide buildings that are tabletop
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Bloody Miniatures are a new manufacturer providing 28mm metal figures suitable for conflicts in the early to mid-17th century, such as the English Civil War or the Thirty Years War. The figures are sculpted by Nick Collier and have been designed to match the ranges he designed for Bicorne and
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We all told ourselves how productive this pandemic and its associated Lockdowns would let us be. While most of us have only really upped our biscuit eating game Mr Joseph A. McCullough has actualised the sort of productivity we were all dreaming of in early 2020. Not content with expansions
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Void Scar are a Nottingham based company producing 1/100 scale sci-fi miniatures in resin, along with a free ruleset - From Ashes - which is available on their website. The selection we’re looking at isn’t the newest of new releases, but they’re new to us and it’s always fun to
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We’re diving into Wargames Atlantic's Partisans (1) French Resistance box set from their Second World War World Ablaze range. Within the box, you’ll find enough frames to build 32 partisans, equip them with an impressive array of weapons, and put a load of spares aside for future projects. Clearly, these resistance
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More than ten years after it first hit tabletops the steampunk skirmish game, In Her Majesty’s Name, is back and it’s a heavyweight. This chunky, A4-sized, full-colour, hardcover book contains 200-pages and Charles Murton and Craig Cartmell (AKA The Ministry of Gentlemanly Warfare) have refined and condensed a decade’s worth
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The Perrys (who you can read a new interview with in Wi400) have just released another plastic box set - this time it’s Austrian Napoleonic Hussars and, once built, they are some of the prettiest plastics we’ve seen. Their wow factor is aided by the visual flair inherent to the
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Studio Miniatures have added a large number of 28mm Monty Python and the Holy Grail models to their Medieval Mayhem range of late. We're looking at just a few of them. MM03-Sir Bors & Squire The first minis under our movie microscope is the double pack of Sir Bors and his squire.
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North Star continue their support for ranked fantasy game Oathmark with the release of this human cavalry box set. Produced in their always high-quality injection plastic at 28mm scale, this is a generous set of 15 multi-part Human Cavalry figures and includes a glorious range of weapon and command options. Two
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Victrix now produce packs of 28mm hard plastic Persian Archers - in both armoured and unarmoured variants - and we are taking a look at the armoured version here. This box - or rather bag - (and the unarmoured set) contains 30 hard plastic, multi-pose miniatures, consisting of 24 archers
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In the March 2021 issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine (Wi399) we feature an article about a skirmish between Russian hunters and a Native American tribe tribe known as Tlingits in the wilds of Alaska, 1792. You will see some great photos of figures from the collection of James Morris in the
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In Every Bullet Has Its Billet, renowned wargamer Barry Hilton offers a wargaming guide to the late 17th Century. The format is a glossy, magazine-style book of 124 pages broken down into nine sections. With Helion’s usual high quality production, Hilton’s authoritative and knowledgeable text, and lots of colourful wargames
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Hot out of the mould this week are some new releases for the Perry Miniatures metal range of Napoleonic Saxons and Prussians. This range will represent the Saxon army as it appeared between 1806 and 1809 before they adopted French style uniforms. First up is a pack of Grenadier command
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An assortment of metal miniatures from Crooked Dice to enjoy here, and some resin cast scenic pieces too. All are appealing in their own ways, and the variety is the first impressive thing, followed by the quality of the metal casting with minimal clean up required on the miniatures. All
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Fireforge already produce an impressive array of plastic box sets in their ‘Western Armies’ range. This latest set adds to the Foot Knights, Foot Sergeants, Mounted Sergeants, Sergeants at Arms and Archers that are already available. The Western Knights are all mounted, with the box set containing three brand new rider
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In last week’s Primetime we told you about a change (or, rather, addition) of scenery here at WiHQ - our insatiable appetite for top quality photos in the magazine means we are always on the lookout for new background fodder in the form of scenery and terrain of every variety.
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