The folks over at GHQ were kind enough to send us some sample packs of their WW2 Micro Armour product line. Micro Armour is a line of 1/285 modern and world war two era military miniatures used for a table top war game much like battletech. We obviously will be reviewing Micro Armour for its ability to integrate into the Battletech universe. The particular sample packs that GHQ sent us retail for $7.95 per pack on their web site.

GHQ's customer service was kind and very prompt on getting these samples out to us. We were excited when we first opened the packages to see the incredible detail that these pieces were cast in. Although pewter is known for its ability to cast detail very well pictures don't do these miniatures justice. The infantry is so finely cut and detailed that you can make out the different barrels on the rifles and even see the creases in the soldiers shirt, this is very impressive for a 1/285 scale.

Like I've already mentioned the detail is incredible in the tanks and infantry, and the variety of pieces is a nice bonus. Upon inspecting the tanks we noticed that the divot that mounts the turret to the body of the tank is long enough and fits snuggly (yet still swivels without issue) so that gluing down the turret will not be necessary which is a big bonus for determining line of sight during a combat round in Battletech. This may be a design feature that's been lost to the folks over at Iron Winds Metals as of late.

A close up shot of the perfect little mounting system of the GHQ tanks.

The scale is near perfect. We had some concerns because of the recent "up sizing" that people have noticed on recent battlemech miniatures (I.E. Atlas, Berserker) but there was no problem whatsoever.

The excess flash was so easy to remove we didn't even need to break out our files or the dremel. Just scrape the mini with your finger nail and away it goes.

Above you can see the almost perfect scale when the infantry men are place next to the cockpit area of a hunchback IIC.

The infantry came mounted on long strips, a simple twist and they become dislodged. The infantry were nicely mounted upon flat pieces of pewter that glued down to the hex bases nicely. Unlike battle armor packs from Iron Wind Metals the bases the infantry were mounted on wasn't too thick so it didn't make awkward displacements of flock all was said and done.

Between the two sample packs there were enough infantry pieces to fill two hex bases and enough left over to attach to the gun emplacement bases as well.. bonus.

Here you can see the infantry mounted on some extra hex bases.

Extra infantry was mounted to the hex bases that the emplacements were mounted on.

Completed artillery mounted on a hex base. We play tested it as a gauss rifle artillery cannon.

Inferno infantry causing chaos and taking the penetrators twin ppcs away from it for a few rounds.

A photo to show the scale of the GHQ pieces and various Battletech units.

Overall we have to give this review the full five Marauders for detail, variety of units, and just plain usefulness. If you know of a flaw in GHQ's miniatures please let us know because we cannot find anything wrong with these pieces what so ever. There company slogan is "The best damn wargaming products --- since 1967" and that might just be right.

So head over to GHQ and buy some of your own sample packs today!