MANUFACTURER: Warlord Games RANGE: Black Powder Napoleonic Wars 1789-1815 SCALE: Approximately 1/56 SIZE: 28mm www.warlordgames.com Reviewed By Pete Harris Contents 20 plastic easy-build Portuguese Line Infantry figures. 4 metal command figures, wire flagpoles and banner tops. 2 page background guide including ten full colour flags. This set of Portuguese Line Infantry is Warlord's latest plastic offering for the Napoleonic period.
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MANUFACTURER: Perry Miniatures RANGE: Hard Plastic Napoleonic Figures SCALE: Approximately 1/56 SIZE: 28mm www.perry-miniatures.com Reviewed by Pete Harris Contents *14 mounted figures, unit bases, uniform guide. For many 28mm Napoleonic wargamers this box set is going to be an absolute must have. Light Dragoons were a key element of the British Army in all the major campaigns of the period
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Unfeasibly Miniatures www.unfeasibly.co.uk The first of the Character Sets for the Exotic Adventures range by Unfeasibly Miniatures depicting Laurel & Hardy as Legionnaires from their classic French Foreign Legion film Beau Hunks. These two figures (code #FFLCI – New Recruits - £8.00) are in 28mm true scale (1/56) and capture the look
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Publisher: Spartan Games http://www.spartangames.co.uk/ Reviewer: Roger Gerrish In 2000, Microsoft broke into the video gaming market with the XBOX console and in doing so created Halo one of the most lucrative and successful video game franchises of all time. I personally spent many hours battling alongside the Master Chief when I really should
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Manufacturer: Zvezda Range: Art of Tactic 18121814 Scale: 1/72 www.artoftactic.com Reviewed by: Wayne Bollands 6809 Russian Foot Artillery 6810 French Foot Artillery 6811 Russian Dragoons 6817 Russian Dragoons Command Group These box sets are part of an expanding range of 1/72nd figures depicting the Russian campaign during the Napoleonic Wars. The artillery sets contain one artillery piece and
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Manufacturer: Zvezda Range: Art Of Tactic Snap Fit Kits Scale: 1/200 www.artoftactic.com Reviewed By: Wayne Bollands Contents 1 x unpainted airplane 1 x aircraft stand 1 x decal sheet A recent addition to the range, this is a very useful little model of the Blenheim. The kit comprises 20 parts which snap fit without the need of glue.
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Author: Paul Davies Publisher: Pen and Sword Reviewer: Nick Buxey www.pen-and-sword.co.uk As a modeller and wargames terrain maker myself, it was very interesting to read Paul Davies’s book and it immediately struck me that no matter how long you have been engaged in the activity of model-making, you can always learn more. Paul, of
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Publisher: Plastic Soldier Company Rules By: Richard Borg Reviewer: Paul Davies theplasticsoldiercompany.co.uk THE GAME The Great War by Richard Borg is probably the first board game produced as a standalone board game, but with the figures, and additional equipment sold separately and aimed at tabletop wargamers. So without further ado lets go ‘over the top’ and
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Publisher: Osprey Games Rules by: Peer Sylvester Reviewer: Dan Faulconbridge The King is Dead is Osprey Games’ first foray into the world of board game publishing. It’s not a game that features miniatures so we really have no excuse for covering it in WI, other than because it is by Osprey and Osprey
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MANUFACTURER: Warlord Games RANGE: Bolt Action World War II SCALE: 28mm www.warlordgames.com Reviewer: Roger Gerrish This is a rather unusual but interesting subject which Warlord Games have added to their Bolt Action WWII Range. The box contains 10 white metal Kriegsmarine (German Navy) figures. The Navy actually provided many ground troops to participate in several
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MANUFACTURER: North Star Military Figures / Osprey Games RANGE: Frostgrave – Fantasy Wargames In The Frozen City SCALE: 28mm www.northstarfigures.com Reviewer: Wayne Bollands These new plastic figures from North Star / Osprey are perfect for their desired purpose. They are intended to represent the ‘Soldiers’ who make up the bulk of a Wizard’s adventuring party.
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Manufacturer: Prodos Games www.prodosgames.com Reviewer: Wayne Bollands This new board game from Prodos has a wealth of interesting features and is a hefty box full of interesting components. The premise behind the game is equally interesting. You take on the role of one of three factions, either classic Alien Xenomorphs, Predators or Human
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Savas Beatie www.savasbeatie.com Reviewed by Gary Mitchell In the American Civil War Petersburg was reckoned the key to the war in the East. It lay astride the five major railroad lines that supplied the Confederate capital, Richmond. Were Petersburg to fall Richmond would be doomed. Grant wanted the “Cockade City” invested and captured.
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Pen & Sword www.pen-and-sword.co.uk Reviewed by Gary Mitchell This is not a book of the ‘daring do’ by Bomber Command. It is a sombre portrait of the horror of war on all sides. It begins by explaining how, from 1942 the power of RAF Bomber Command was transformed by new heavy bombers like
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Warlord Games www.warlordgames.com Reviewed by Jodie Brandt The Russian KV-8 flamethrower tank offered in 28mm scale by Warlord Games is a massive work of art cast almost entirely in resin. This kit comes in 4 thick resin pieces (hull, left and right tracks, and turret) each beautifully crafted with hardly any mold lines,
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TableWar/Frontline Gaming www.frontlinegaming.org Reviewed by Matt Moran A year or so ago, I made the leap from boards with modular terrain to terrain mats, saving myself hundreds of hours of flocking hills with one simple paint-flecked fleece sheet. I have several now for different environments, and I heartily recommend gaming mats to everyone,
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Pig Iron Productions www.pig-iron-productions.com Review by Matt Moran This release from Pig Iron further expand their Kolony Wars setting with packs of models and accessories for the System Scavengers – ruthless artefact hunters seeking out lost treasures in the “Burn”, a poisoned wasteland reminiscent of Rogue Trooper's Nu-Earth. There are two packs of five
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Revell www.revell.de/en Review by Pete Harris This is a 1/72nd model kit from Revell's excellent range of modern image military fighting vehicles. Originally tooled and released in 1999, there have been several variants of the basic vehicle and this latest release enables the modeller to build the eloka electronic warfare and nbc versions.
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Sarissa Precision Ltd. www.sarissa-precision.com Review by Pete Harris As well as the many buildings and accessories produced in MDF by Sarissa they also manufacture several vehicles. Three of these focus on the Edwardian / World War One-era and consist of an open back lorry, a delivery lorry and a type B double decker
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Sarissa Precision Ltd. www.sarissa-precision.com Review by Pete Harris Think of the Sudan War and various films depicting the period such as Khartoum or The Four Feathers. One of the vivid images that comes to mind are the Nile paddle steamers and gun boats. They were an integral part of the conflict and make
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