Twenty-eight millimetres is the gateway to tabletop gaming. The boxes here hold multipart hard plastic bodies on sprues, which you assemble yourself with a choice of heads, arms and weapons, so two identical boxes never produce the same unit twice.
Coverage is broad and deliberately paired for opposing armies: American Civil War infantry, cavalry, Zouaves and artillery, the English and French of Agincourt including mounted knights, British and Continental infantry of the American War of Independence, Franco-Prussian War French, Prussian and Bavarian infantry, Prussian line infantry and volunteer Jaegers of 1813 to 1815, and desert infantry of the Second World War. Unit sizes run from a dozen horsemen to forty-six foot soldiers, a skirmish boxing holds sixty-five, and one introductory box carries more than a hundred and seventy figures.
FORTUNATE SONS · 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION · 10 MINIATURES
39.96 €
FORTUNATE SONS · PANZERGRENADIER DIVISION · 10 MINIATURES 30MM SCALE
39.96 €
28mm Prussian Infantry (Command)
12.76 €
28mm Battle in a Box - American Civil War 1861-1865 (over 170 Figures)
0 €
28mm American Civil War - Infantry (36 Figures)
31.96 €
28mm American Civil War - Cavalry (12 Figures)
31.96 €
Twenty-eight millimetres is a figure height, not a reduction ratio, and it corresponds roughly to 1:56. It is the international standard for tabletop warfare because the rule sets assume units of several dozen men, which is why boxes are packed by the platoon rather than the piece. Every body is built from a torso with optional heads, arms and weapons, so a regiment can be given its own character as you assemble it. That modularity is the real difference from older one-piece figures, and it is worth planning before the sprue cutters come out: decide which bodies carry the firing pose and which the advance, because the arms commit you.
Wargaming figures are built to be handled during play and are usually painted with faster methods aimed at a metre's viewing distance. A display figure is a single piece taken to its limit instead. If painting appeals to you more than playing, look at the larger 35 mm model figures.
The catalogue is built so that opponents exist in parallel, from the Civil War and Agincourt to the Franco-Prussian War. Buy both armies for one engagement and you have a game rather than a parade; rules and a willing opponent are usually easier to find at a club than you expect, and a club will also lend you a tape measure and an opinion on basing.
Tabletop battles can be supported by machines, and the matching size is 1:56 military vehicle kits. If you would rather field mass battles with far more bodies per box, consider 1:72 and 1:76 model figures instead.
All figure sizes are listed clearly under model figures.
