A page to gather up the slowly-increasing number of review posts here on The Warbard – miniatures, scenery, books, rules, whatever needs reviewing!
3d Printed 1/1200 Ships from Antics
Antics, a UK model/toy shop, carry a small range of resin 3d printed 1/1200 WW2 ships under the John's Model Shipyard name. There are a lot of…
Your Bloody Miniatures Have Arrived
I swear Bloody Miniatures chose their company name just so wargamer's spouses could say that when the lovely figures show up! Thankfully they really…
Folk Horror Miniatures
I tripped over this little Kickstarter earlier in 2022 for a dozen figures inspired by European folklore, Folk Horrors by Ana Polanšćak. They're…
Bloody Miniatures Company of Wolves
Finally finished the sixteen English Civil War 28mm figures from Bloody Miniatures' Release 1, The Company of Wolves. I did mine up a bit plainer…
Still Around… (and some Gaslands content!)
It's been a bit of an odd year for gaming, I've been having fairly regular games but not painting or building things on a consistent…
Cold Waters Ocean Mat Review
For my naval gaming I knew I needed a proper mat eventually; I thought about doing up a sheet of grey felt with spraypaint and such, but then I found…
Resin Bases and Bits from Rain City Hobbies
I've talked up Rain City Hobbies on this blog before, but only for their very nice grass and flower tufts. They also do a huge range of resin bases,…
Mad Mushroom Jungles
From the excellent people running Dark Fantastic Mills I purchased this Doomcap Shrooms Bundle earlier in the year. If you want to run fantasy games,…
Forge of Ice Serpent Idol
Painted this guy up fairly quickly over a couple of days, after getting it a few weeks ago from Forge of Ice. I wasn't sure if I wanted to do the…
Loot from Forge of Ice
Forge of Ice is one of those one-person companies that makes all sorts of cool stuff, and after knowing about them for several years I finally got…
Loot From Bad Squiddo
Ordered a few things from the excellent and varied ranges of Bad Squiddo Games back in March; things took longer to get from the UK to here than I'm…
Tiny Ships: A Game of Coastal Patrol
As mentioned last weekend after our game of Narrow Seas, we also wanted to try out Coastal Patrol, available in the Summer 2011 Special from…
An Actual Game of Tiny Ships!
This afternoon we actually got the tiny ships onto the table and had a game using the Narrow Seas rules. First, of course, I had to use blue-tac…
Tell the Bartender Your Troubles
Way back in December 2018 on Twitter, Bears Head Miniatures showed off pictures of their new Beholder-alike floating eye beastie, Narthoks the…
Fenris Games Runestones
I picked up a few things from Fenris Games back in June or July, and the first pieces are finally getting completed and onto the gaming…
The Assault Group ECW Artillery
The Assault Group (TAG) has a huge range of Thirty Year's War/English Civil War/general Renaissance figures that I'd heard good things about,…
Warbases Skirmish Movement Trays
I picked up a batch of simple lasercut MDF trays sized for 25mm bases on one of my recent Warbases order. Pikeman's Lament uses either six or twelve…
Review: Warbases MDF Vehicles
Warbases started doing vehicles in lasercut MDF and cardboard (greyboard) a few years ago and I was intrigued right away; a lot of 28mm vehicles are…
The Trumpeter Salute 2017 Loot Haul!
I managed to escape from Trumpeter Salute 2017 at the start of April without buying a single actual figure, but I brought home a batch of scenery…
PlastCraft Curved Modular Building
While at Trumpeter Salute I picked up one of PlastCraft's Designed-For-Infinity plastic pre-coloured buildings, the Curved Modular Building, from the…
Review: Impudent Mortal Near Future Elevators
I picked up a pack of Impudent Mortal's Near Future Elevator Set, as mentioned in a previous post, and thought I'd put a few pictures up and do a bit…
Eureka’s Tachanka, Part One
About ten days ago I made an order to Eureka USA for a few things, most importantly their Russian three horse Tachanka/crew in cap. What the heck,…
Russian Civil War with Chain of Command
We had a quick and messy intro to the TooFatLardies' Chain of Command/Through the Mud and the Blood WW1 hybrid today with my Russian Civil War…
Impudent Mortal Paint Rack
I first heard of Impudent Mortal when Richard of TooFatLardies used two of their buildings to build himself a very nice brewery for WW2 gaming. Rich…
Lizards & Lunatics
Had two small orders come in last week. I have been saving money for an epic bike vacation to Europe in a few months (Vienna, Austria to Nantes,…
Sarissa CityBlock Buildings, Finished
Finally have the Sarissa CityBlock 28mm lasercut MDF buildings to a table-ready state, including another hand-painted advertising sign on the side of…
Sarissa CityBlock Buildings, Part The Third
Progress continues on my seven Sarissa Precision buildings, albeit at a slower pace than I'd intended! Basecoat and drybrushing is done on all…
Sarissa CityBlock Buildings, Part The Second
Having assembled my new Sarrisa Precision lasercut buildings, it was time to consider adding some extra details to really make these buildings "pop"…
Sarissa CityBlock Buildings, Part The First
In my last post (two+ weeks ago!) I mentioned I'd bought a bundle of Sarissa Precision's lasercut 28mm CityBlock buildings to bring our pulp gaming…
Wagons from Frikkin’ Lasers
Got a nice box from J&M Miniatures earlier this week, and even before I cut the tape on the box I could smell the future... oddly enough, the…
28mm Pulp Baggage Review
Phil of Slug Industries (and Adventures in Wargaming, his personal blog) has recently released a set of 28mm pulp luggage. Cast in resin, you get six…
Wargamers With Frickin’ Lasers, Part II
Exactly seven days after I ordered some Orthodox crosses and a few other laser-cut bits from Archeotech, a small padded envelope arrived from the UK.…
4Ground Cart Review
As part of an order that arrived this week from Brigade Games I picked up one of 4Ground's neat looking laser-cut carts. This one is "28-CAW-303…
Book Review: Trench by Stephen Bull
Trench: A History of Trench Warfare on the Western Front by Stephen Bull. This is a joint publication by Osprey Publishing and the Imperial War…
Renedra Generics Scenery Bits
A few weeks ago, I took advantage of J & M Miniatures' offer of free shipping for all of December to order a few bits and pieces of Renedra's…
An Ainsty Resin Order
In some ways, this smallish order of Ainsty resin scenery bits has been a decade in the making; I discovered Ainsty sometime in the very late 1990s…
Book Review: The White Armies of Russia
The White Armies of Russia: A Chronicle of Counter-Revolution and Allied Intervention by George Stewart is another modern reprint from Naval &…
Book Review: Gone To Russia To Fight
The international intervention into the Russian Civil War — basically, the Western Entente (Allies) attempting to first keep Russia in the fight…
Book Review: Notes for Infantry Officers on Trench Warfare
"The importance assumed by trench warfare... have rendered necessary special instructions in the details of trench construction and trench fighting."…
Books from Naval & Military Press
Back in April I made an order to Naval & Military Press, a UK-based specialty publisher with a focus on military history. The books arrived last week…
Fiskars Circle Cutter Review, and Markers for M&B
Back one of the before-Christmas sales, I picked up a Fiskars circle cutter on deep discount from one of the local art supply stores. It's been on my…