15/25/35mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Ruined Bridge (Gale Force Nine BB593)

25/35mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Ruined Bridge (Gale Force Nine BB593)

The next item in my neverending series of Battlefield in a Box prepainted terrain reviews – the “Wartorn Village Ruined Bridge”. It’s labelled as 25-35mm terrain, but I think it does still work well enough at 15mm, as you’ll see down the page.

25/35mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Ruined Bridge (Gale Force Nine BB593)

Box packaging is prety standard for these sets – the bridge is wrapped in bubble wrap inside the box.

25/35mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Ruined Bridge (Gale Force Nine BB593)

The bridge itself looks pretty decent. As usual with these sets, it could use a little bit of dust and dirt added, as well as a bit of greenish moss underneath due to it being a bridge.

25/35mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Ruined Bridge (Gale Force Nine BB593)

And here we see it mated to the Wartorn Village Cobblestone Road set I reviewed recently As we can see, it fits with the roads perfectly.

25/35mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Ruined Bridge (Gale Force Nine BB593), Flames of War

Let’s see how it goes alongside some 15mm Flames of War tanks. It looks pretty good, I think. Sure, the bricks of the bridge are giant slabs in comparison, but it still reads fine to me.

25/35mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Ruined Bridge (Gale Force Nine BB593), Celestial Lions Space Marines Warhammer 40,000 40k

And with a selection of Space Marines it also looks fine if you’re wondering how this stuff would look with 40k (or AoS) scaled models. A Dreadnought on a 60mm base fits on it just fine.

25/35mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Ruined Bridge (Gale Force Nine BB593), Lord of the Rings Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game SBG

Lastly, here’s the bridge with the more realistically-scaled 25-28mm Lord of the Rings SBG games. As you can see, the slight scale change from 40k doesn’t make a difference, and these fantasy models perfectly fit with this little bridge.

25/35mm Terrain Unboxing Review: Wartorn Village Ruined Bridge (Gale Force Nine BB593)

At reader request, I’ve taken a pic showing the size of this bridge, both with a compact disc (It’s much bigger!) and also a tape measure with both Inches and Cenitimetres. This bridge is just over 6″ long, or about 5 1/2 cm.

Rogue Trader: 4013 Imperial Guard Commissars (Mark Copplestone, Jun 1989)

Rogue Trader: 4013 Imperial Guard Commissars (Mark Copplestone, Jun 1989)

Today’s post brings us a pair of models that I painted back in the 1990’s that just got a touch-up to be renewed for tabletop duty in the 2020’s. We have a pair of the second-wave Imperial Guard Commissars, from 1989, incorporating the separate plastic arms.

Rogue Trader: 4013 Imperial Guard Commissars (Mark Copplestone, Jun 1989)

The fellow on the left is the model that had Carapace Armour, much like the original Imperial Guard Command Squad models, and to so emphasise this, I used the plastic Space Marine arms of the day, as they featured that little bit of lined detail on their under-shoulder-pads, and given the description of Carapace armour of the day, you could think of it as like a version of plate armour, so if you think about the arms being plasteel plate rather than powered armour it works. Depending on the viewing angle of this model, they look either terribly unbalanced or just fine, actually. 😀

Rogue Trader: 4013 Imperial Guard Commissars (Mark Copplestone, Jun 1989)

The old-school paintjobs on these were (I felt) worth preserving. While I wouldn’t paint them the same way if starting from scratch today in terms of the bright red belts and the parade-white pouches, they still look quite decent and I feel would fit into any of my own Imperial Guard armies from the Rogue Trader days through to today.

Rogue Trader: 4013 Imperial Guard Commissars (Mark Copplestone, Jun 1989)

It’s sort-of a cheat to count these as models completed in April 2022, as they really just needed a touch-up and a couple of chips and bits repainted, but that’s also because I wanted to leave the original paint intact as much as possible – sure, the chainswords are a wee bit bright, but we’re not talking about some of the skittle-impersonator models that have needed much more drastic repaints over the years, so in many ways these two were best left alone. Either way, they’re now table-ready and ready to execute traitors and cowards in the Emperor’s name once again!

Rogue Trader: 4601 Imperial Guard Ogryn Sergeant (Bob Olley, Feb 1989)

If you enjoyed these Oldhammer 40k models, why not take a peek at my just-restored Ogryn Sergeant post from 2014 for more retro-40k goodness!