If you are looking to wargame the Chinese in World War Two or in their Civil War of 1945 - 49, then you’re hardly spoilt for choice. Despite featuring heavily in the Bolt Action Empire in Flames Campaign book, Warlord don’t make a dedicated range of figures, and in fact
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Great Escape Games ran a successful Kickstarter campaign in April of this year to bring some Danish World War II figures to the market. From this campaign came; two ten-man squads, a command pack of four figures, and a motorbike sidecar combo. The figures measure 28mm from foot to eye. The
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These are “selling like hot cakes” at North Star apparently. Not surprising really because who wouldn’t want four “scary” plastic trees, two tree stumps, two clusters of mushrooms and two ‘stick-on-able’ (or not) tree faces for £15? These models form part of a forthcoming Mantic Games ‘Terrain Crate’, but Mantic have
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Trent Miniatures is one of those companies that always seems to me to take “the road less travelled”, producing excellent miniatures for some of the less well-covered wargames periods and these new releases continue this trend. First up is a pack for their “Vendean” or “Chouannerie” range. This was the peasant
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Published in collaboration with Sarissa Precision Ltd this full colour A4 book, by Sarissa’s chief designer and building painter Gary Faulkner, is designed to help those of you who want to take your MDF laser cut buildings to the next level. “What’s to learn?” I hear you ask; “don’t you
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If you are a player of Games Workshops “Warhammer 40,000” then you will already be aware that this month sees’ the release of the latest edition of the rules. GW have decided to mark the event with the launch of what they are describing as “the biggest and best boxed
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I think it’s fair to say that any wargamer with a penchant for Normans is well catered for. Whether you’re a fan of plastics from Conquest Miniatures or metals by Gripping Beast, Crusader Miniatures, Footsore, Foundry, V&V or anyone else I’ve missed – there’s a lot of choice out there.
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Ultimately the Kriegsmarine was too small to match Germany's ambitions plans during World War Two, yet it managed to produce the most famous ship of the war; The Bismarck. Despite only having one, eight-day, combat operation, it is fitting that this ship is one of the early releases for Warlord Games'
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It’s always nice to be reminded of the wealth of 72nd scale models there are on the market, and the arrival of this Nakajima Ki-43 from Oxford Diecast did just that. Scalable with 20mm minis, this robust metal diecast plane represents one of the 5,000 plus Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa ("Peregrine Falcon") planes
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“Dangerous Dames” is a new line of miniatures from Pulp Figures of Canada, featuring, as the name suggests, the ladies of Pulp. The first pack of “Rugged Adventurersses” (PHP 20) consists of a pilot, with pistol drawn and flying jacket over one shoulder, a beret wearing resistance fighter with an HMG
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Lucid Eye Publications offer several eclectic figures range, all with intriguing names like ‘Savage Core’ or ‘Blades and Souls’. One such is the ‘Toons’ range. Perfectly fitting their title, the Toons are squat but perfectly formed miniatures, designed to look like cartoon characters. The Toons range is sub-divided into: Toon
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Artizan Designs have released a second/alternative set of figures for their World War Two Command Post. This diorama set is a combined effort between Artizan, Sarissa and Renedra. To accompany the MDF ruined farmhouse Artzan originally provided a set of five 28mm figures representing: two senior officers, one medic, one radio
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This new plastic Napoleonic box set from Perry Miniatures was due to be released at Salute 2020, but we all know what happened there, so this latest offering - Austrian Napoleonic Cavalry 1798 - 1815 designed by Alan Perry, was pushed back slightly and came out early June. https://youtu.be/9rfeIPZqsXo Inside the instantly
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With the release of this latest set in their Napoleonic Wars range Victrix declared “We think this is one of our greatest sets to date, the detail is superb and the figures are packed with animation and character.” And indeed they are both highly detailed and characterful. Let’s take a
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Lurkio Figures are a new-ish 15mm manufacture fronted by the author of popular ancients rules; Mortem et Gloriam (MeG). Unsurprisingly Lurkio produce a range of figures for the ancient period, although they do also have Nine Years War and Victorian Sci-fi miniatures in their catalogue. Recently released and received for review
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In support of their recent D-Day British: Forces in Normandy, 1944 book for Flames of War, Battlefront have re-released their plastic Cromwell tank, paired four them with a Firefly and released this new ‘Armoured Troop’ boxed set. https://youtu.be/kPT77EWZMoo The packaging for Battlefront products is always appealing and this chucky, moody box invites
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When it comes to populating the African savannah and forests with fauna of all shapes and sizes the ‘North Star Africa’ range has you covered. These latest three packs of animals: Antelope, Chimpanzees and Lionesses and cubs, have ostensibly been released in support of Death in the Dark Continent –
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What do you do if you already make a 15mm Crusader tank frame, but also want to produce a Crusader self-propelled Anti-Aircraft Troop? Simples – you design and manufacture a new mini AA frame containing a turret and twin gun and pop it in a box with your existing (although
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I have to admit to becoming a little misty eyed when I opened the review parcel this week, as it contained two boxes of 15mm plastic figures from Plastic Soldier Company. The box art and the sprues of plastic miniatures within took me back to the heady days of my
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Gale Force Nine’s ‘Battlefield in a Box’ range rarely fails to impress, and these latest releases in the ‘Gothic’ range are no exception. Expanding on the eight Gothic building sections already available, these new sets we have here are two of the three new corner pieces, plus some additional pillars.
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What we have here is something a bit radical. Peter Dennis has been working for a while on his ‘Paperboys’ series of cut out and construct figures, from which you can form ranks of two dimensional wargames soldiers. Now with the help of Romanian company “World of Fun’ (or simply
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For those of you who have been living under a mossy stone for the past few months (or self isolating in your own home for some unknown reason) “Oathmark” is the new fantasy mass battle game from Osprey. With full sized units of troops, these rules have everyone dusting off
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Review by Dom Sore. Cold War goes hot gaming in the 1980s. This is where my wargame journey started when I spied the collection of a neighbour while being babysat by his mother. Eleven year old me was very excited to see the huge amount of tanks he had on neat
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Gripping Beast continue to produce new factions for their incredibly popular “Saga” skirmish game, this time looking to those implacable enemies of Byzantium, the Avars. Included in our review bundle are; the High Chieftain command pack, two further command packs, two packs of Avar nobles with spears and two packs of
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“Rangers of Shadow Deep” (RoSD) is a fantasy skirmish game written by Joseph A. McCullough, who has already authored the successful “Frostgrave” and “Ghost Archipelago” games. Because this is a skirmish game, you do not need many miniatures to get started and this also means that you can afford to
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Review by Pete Brown. Wargames Atlantic are launching a series of boxed, multi-pose, plastic miniatures which will, their website states, cover: “a wide swath of time starting with the first civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean through to the conquests of Alexander.” First amongst these is a box of ancient Persian Infantry. https://youtu.be/1-iFLobA8J8 The
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A review by Paul Davies I first made the acquaintance of this company’s products with their excellent skeletons, and having recently become interested in the ‘Great Game’ on the North West Frontier, I have been eagerly awaiting their Afghans; the latest addition to their ‘Imperial Conquests – Battles in the Age
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Review by Pete Brown. As the proud owner of a Dark Age Irish army and currently in the process of collecting more warbands to refight the classic Irish battle of Clontarf, I was particularly pleased to see this new box of multi-pose plastic miniatures drop through my letterbox for review. The
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Full Metal Miniatures already have an impressive range of vehicles (at least ten at the last count) for the Vietnam war. They describe them thus “These vehicles are 1/56th scale and are designed to be handled and used for wargaming!” so they fit right in with the current crop of
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North Star continue to release new miniatures to support their 1866 Austro-Prussian War range, with the release this week of some Austrian Generals. We have been sent three mounted Generals, two with distinctive feathered hats and one in a forage cap. I know it is becoming something of a cliché, but
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