Wargames Atlantic 28mm Great War British Infantry

        Well, at long last we get to see these in the flesh. I am perhaps the world's worst person when it comes to patience, I absolutely hate waiting. But, in this case, I will have to say it was worth the wait. These figures are very very good. This set will provide you with thirty of the ubiquitous P.B.I. that carried the "Burden of Empire" across the globe. As with all other W.A. products these are cleanly cast in a firm (but not fragile) gray plastic with no flash and very few mold-lines. Common with other W.A. kits almost every permutation of headgear is covered; soft-hat, steel helmets, steel helmet and gasmask, tropical pith helmets and steel helmets with cloth cover (I am going to have to find some use for the hundreds of spare heads that are beginning to fill my "bits bin").

 

front of the box, the combination of excellent artwork and nicely painted miniatures is very effective

 

rear of the box, the painted minis demonstrate some of the options in the kit

 

box with contents

six identical sprues, each with five minis (and about a zillion heads)

 

sprue, side A

 

sprue, side B

 

 

standard helmets and tropical pith helmets, plus a nasty-looking mace!

 

soft caps and gasmasks, plus a whole load of neat accessories

 

four of the five figures; excellent proportions, good poses, 

cleanly sculpted with good draping of the fabrics, top-notch stuff!

 

the remaining figure and some of the small-arms (yes, pun intended)

I do like that the Hotchkiss LMG is included

 

the other side of the four minis

 

and the lone mini, the detailing on the rifles is very precise

 

despite being about 3/16 of an inch long the Webley revolver is recognizable as such!

 

plenty of spare arms and rifles plus the odd goody like a bucket or a nasty-looking mace

I am disappointed by the lack of grenades and grenade-throwing rifles

 

       The uniforms looks to be regulation on all the minis, I was hoping for more variety (troops in the field tend to have a more practical approach to dress regulations, see photo below) of dress but the question would have led to "early" and "late" versions of the minis which just isn't practical.

 

 

The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916 Troops of the 10th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (37th Division) marching to the trenches, St Pol (Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise), November 1916.

from Wikipedia

       Notice the wide variety of ways that the regulation kit is being worn

       Aside from the grenade-thrower thing (which is easily corrected with a bit of scratch-building) this is an absolutely superlative set. It fills the gap in the "Big Three" line-up for the Western Front. With the Russians in the pipeline we can keep pressuring Wargame Atlantic to do Austrians and Italians and all the Great Powers of Europe will have been covered. You simply won't find better quality miniatures anywhere near this price-point.

       Very Highly Recommended