Napoleonic Egyptian Fellahin
Company: Perry Miniatures
Size: 28mm ‘foot to eye’ or 31mm in turban
Era: Late eighteenth and early nineteenth century
Price: £8.00 for six infantry
The latest release for the Perry Ottoman Napoleonic range is Egyptian Fellahin, or peasant soldiers. These irregular soldiers fought against the French invasion and were turned into a professional army by Mohammed Ali Pasha, who defeated the British invasion of Alexandria (1807), destroyed the powerbase of the Mamluks (the Mamluk massacre, 1811), reconquered Arabia (the Wahhabi War, 1811–1812), and conquered the Sudan (1820). Ali Pasha finally declared Egyptian independence (the Egyptian Ottoman War 1931–1933). So, these miniatures have some milage beyond being just Ottoman levies. The range of Fellahin currently consists of two packs of spearmen, one pack of swordmen and two packs of muskets. Each box contains six miniatures, each in a different pose. The casting is good, with no mould lines visible and little flash. The models are generic enough suitable from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. This useful range will be a must for Ottoman players and for those seeking more exotic battles.
High school heroes
Company: Fighting 15s
Size: 14mm ‘foot to eye’ or 17mm tall
Era: Modern
Price: £4.00 for six miniatures
Fighting 15s has released a set of high school heroes and armed Japanese schoolgirls as part of their ‘5G Generation’ modern range of zombie hunters and zombies. This adds to the existing range of male and female rioters, and police in riot gear. The pack contains three males armed with a selection of improvised weapons and three females armed with a selection of firearms. The Japanese schoolgirls are equipped with a series of martial arts weapons – and a chainsaw; I guess foreign exchange students come well equipped for zombie survival! Like with the earlier packs, there is a second pack with the zombie equivalents, so if your heroes fall, they can be replaced by yet another zombie! The models are well cast; there were only a few pour lines to clean off the bases. The detailing is good, and the models look cool. This addition to the ‘5G’ range provides some student models either equipped for some sort of Battle Royale or to try and survive the waves of zombie hordes.
Ramshackle church
Company: Renedra
Size: 28mm scale, 130mm L x 80mm W x 160mm H
Era: Eighteenth century to modern
Price: £20.00 for the church
Previously, Renedra
