15/28/32mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Cobblestone Road (Gale Force Nine BB592)

15/28mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Cobblestone Road (Gale Force Nine BB592), 1:100, 1/100 Flames of War Battlegroup, What a Tanker

Today I have another terrain review. I’d intended to get this one up several months ago, but things didn’t happen, so it got delayed quite a bit. Ah well, up now I guess!

15/28mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Cobblestone Road (Gale Force Nine BB592), 1:100, 1/100 Flames of War Battlegroup, What a Tanker

Opening the box, we see this. Um.. okay

15/28mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Cobblestone Road (Gale Force Nine BB592), 1:100, 1/100 Flames of War Battlegroup, What a Tanker

The paper parcel slides out of the box…

15/28mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Cobblestone Road (Gale Force Nine BB592), 1:100, 1/100 Flames of War Battlegroup, What a Tanker

..and unwraps…

15/28mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Cobblestone Road (Gale Force Nine BB592), 1:100, 1/100 Flames of War Battlegroup, What a Tanker

..and unwraps… oh, I see now. Each segment is separated by the folded-in paper so you don’t have the paint rub off in transit, and then you can just recycle the paper. I actually quite like it. That’s a nice touch over just chucking everything in a plastic wrapper.

15/28mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Cobblestone Road (Gale Force Nine BB592), 1:100, 1/100 Flames of War Battlegroup, What a Tanker

And once flipped over, you can see the road segments.

15/28mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Cobblestone Road (Gale Force Nine BB592), 1:100, 1/100 Flames of War Battlegroup, What a Tanker

Aaaaand, here’s the stack of them. You can see here that there’s a bit of thickness to them as well.

15/28mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Cobblestone Road (Gale Force Nine BB592), 1:100, 1/100 Flames of War Battlegroup, What a Tanker

Oh, they bendy. That’s a good thing, actually. I’ll show you why.

15/28mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Cobblestone Road (Gale Force Nine BB592), 1:100, 1/100 Flames of War Battlegroup, What a Tanker

15/28mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Cobblestone Road (Gale Force Nine BB592), 1:100, 1/100 Flames of War Battlegroup, What a Tanker

You can use them on table elevations. Maybe they’re not perfect on this little hill I had on hand (review to come!) but you get the idea.

15/28mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Cobblestone Road (Gale Force Nine BB592), 1:100, 1/100 Flames of War Battlegroup, What a Tanker

So how much road do you get? Well, my table is 4 foot across (48inches/122cm), and the straight sections go that far, plus you also have the two slight bends. Quite decent.

15/28mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Cobblestone Road (Gale Force Nine BB592), 1:100, 1/100 Flames of War Battlegroup, What a Tanker

Scale shot with 28/32mm Warhammer Fantasy and 40k models. Not a huge road by any means, but very useable nonetheless. I could see laying two of them side-by side for more significant roads if you had enough segments. What this means in real terms is that I will use these roads for fantasy and historical games as well. I’ll use these when I play Saga, Bolt Action, Lord of the Rings, Kings of War, Age of Sigmar, and even those games of 40k where the battle occurs across battlefields more reminiscent of WWII Europe than a Playmobil factory with the same 40k terrain kits we see in every box and batrep (if you’ve been playing 40k for awhile, you’ll remember these games). I love versatile terrain like this.

15/28mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Cobblestone Road (Gale Force Nine BB592), 1:100, 1/100 Flames of War Battlegroup, What a Tanker

And with 15mm models, they also really shine.

15/28mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Cobblestone Road (Gale Force Nine BB592), 1:100, 1/100 Flames of War Battlegroup, What a Tanker

Here’s a photo of turn 1 of the first baby game Marouda and I had of FoW, back in November of 2021 when I took these photos and was crutching my way around the place. As you can see, the roads look pretty decent even though there aren’t many of them for the table.

Given the intent of this review, which is to provide some images and simple thoughts on a set that I was unable to find any information on online aside from box pics, I’m not going to “score” the set. I purchased it myself from an online retailer and while it wasn’t exactly cheap, even compared to GW’s plastic offerings, I’m pretty happy with this one. So happy in fact that I’ve been on the lookout for a second set since I bought these but to no avail several months on – I know Battlefront/Gale Force 9 has had severe supply issues since Covid lockdowns shut down their manufacturing, and are only now just starting to get their previously scheduled new releases out, way out of their planned order – so it appears that a lot of the terrain sets aren’t top of the priority list (nor is supply to Australia!)

As always, with a small amount of effort this set of roads could be made to look a fair bit better – which is why this review is so delayed from when I took the photos – I was hoping to get that second set so I could do all the weathering at once for visual consistency. So the repaint post will unfortunately have to come a bit further down the line once I secure another set of these.

Fantasy Flight – Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth Spreading War Heroes – Beorn (Beorning and Bear-Form) and Calaminth Took

Fantasy Flight - Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth Spreading War Heroes - Beorn (Beorning and Bear-Form) and Calaminth Took

Today we have another pair of heroes from FFG’s Journeys in Middle Earth board game. Since the last few posts of models from this game have been from the Forces of Shadow, I felt it was time to do another couple of player characters.

Fantasy Flight - Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth Spreading War Heroes - Beorn (Beorning and Bear-Form)

So first up we have the Chieftain of the Beornings himself, Beorn – in both his human and bear forms.

Beorn was one of those models that was hard to get started on, but then once I sat down and concentrated on working on him after the initial skin and fur coats, really almost painted himself in what turned out to be a pleasant morning and early afternoon where I got both forms completed.

Fantasy Flight - Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth Spreading War Heroes - Beorn (Beorning and Bear-Form)

There’s not a lot else to say here really, Naturalistic colours for both models, some pleasant blending, and they were done pretty simply and easily.

Fantasy Flight - Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth Spreading War Heroes - Calaminth Took

The second character for today is another one of the many (created) Heroes from Journeys in Middle-Earth board game in the form of Calaminth Took, presumably a relative of Pippin. I guess she provides the game with the same role for hobbits that Tauriel provides for the Hobbit films since there – as I mentioned when I posted my painted Elena and Beravor there aren’t a whole lot of canon female characters in Tolkien’s writings, and even fewer when it comes to adventurer-protagonist-type characters. Calaminth was cleaned and primed as I’d initially hoped to get her painted for Fembuary this year, but it didn’t end up happening at the time, so as a model that seemed relatively straightforward to get painted, I’ve gotten her done now, bit by bit over a few days.

Of course, this same expansion includes artwork for a female Rohirrim with African features and an Asian Elf, but I’ll have more to say regarding my thoughts on those models once I have them painted.

Fantasy Flight - Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth Spreading War Heroes - Calaminth Took

As far as painting Calaminth, there’s really not a lot to go on, so I took inspiration from the character card (as seen above). A bit of a cross between sterotypical Ye Olde Matronly English Inkeeper and “Hobbit”. (Complete with a somehow-immaculate apron even in the midst of adventuring in the wilds!) Another model that was a bit hard to get started on but went pretty smoothly and quickly once I did start work. And that’s that! Now I need to decide whether to paint another pair of heroes, or do some more villains. I’ve got plenty of both all ready and prepped for painting…