Here at Fortified Niche, we’ve been fans of World of Fun Games as long as we’ve known of the company. Plexiglas standees solve the issues of both paper standees and regular miniatures! But our endless paeans always lacked a certain I-defintely-can-sais-qui: none of us had ever touched the stuff. This changed recently when WoFun kindly provided the awkwardly-named Start Pack Peninsular War 18mm – and threw in a few other frames besides. Does this mean I’ll turn my sycophancy to 11? Let’s find out.
The aforementioned Peninsular War starter pack contains 378 figurines on 5 Plexiglass Sprues, split between the British, allied Portuguese, and the French. You also get MDF cannons.
Assembling the troops into Plexiglas ranks
Here’s how it looks in practice:
To be extremely nictpicky, most 18 mm stuff come in strips of four (for infantry) or three (cav), so you’re not getting 378 miniatures you can arrange however you wa- ow, ow, not the face!
Ahem single unit of infantry in the starter contains five bases of eight infantry (so two strips), and a command base that may have a loose officer, a couple of buddies for him to have on the front rank, and a strip with a flag bearer. There are variations.
I did some work trying to make bases in the unit unique by mixing up which strips go to front rank and back. There’s plenty of beautiful Peter Dennis designs to go around, even if some strips are palette swaps.
Before getting the box, I was actually worried that the colors on the minis would be weird. But once they arrived, I saw that they all looked great, even if some guys at the FLGS commented that the Dennis designs are on the darker side.
The Plexiglas figurines pop out of the frame easily, with a satisfying crack. The joint is on the slotta tab; out of sight and out of mind once you cram it into the base.
The fit is tight – I actually needed to do some pushing to get them to fit. So they’re likely to stay secure in the bases for some time even without gluing.
Naturally, this makes for some fast assembly times. I did most of the army in one not-particularly-frantic evening I actually could have been more chill, as pushing on all those hard Plexiglas edges made my fingers ache. Didn’t draw blood or tear skin – I can do that myself with scalpels and instant glue – but wasn’t great.
Assembling that many actual plastic miniatures would have taken a lot of more time and resulted in many more injuries, and mounds of frustration. But with WoFun, I didn’t even have to clean moldlines, and had the equivalent of a painted army ready!
The only real issue in assembly came from the MDF cannons:
- The assembly wasn’t so tight, which necessitated using glue.
- The assembly holes in the cannon carriage are fairly big, leaving not much MDF for structural integrity, and I broke one.
All in all, cramming Plexiglas standees into slightly-too-narrow MDF slots beats a lot of my experiences in assembling minis… or painting them, for that matter.
Troops inspection time
Here’s how the starter pack looks when finished:
…I don’t know if it’s the right general, however.
Incidentally, here’s how the most basic Peninsular forces from Sharp Practice v.2 rulebook would look like if we took one group of six-to-eight soldiers to be one base:
But wait, there’s more! WoFun sent me more than just the starter – a few cheeky frames also made their way into the parcel.
First off, Peter Dennis’ French regulars in 28 mm! It’s obviously the same artwork as used in the 18 mm version, which means they’re also grouped in the same strips.
Putting the WoFun into WoFun Plexiglas standees
So far, so Peter Dennis. But WoFun has employed more artists, as well having their own in-house line of minis. They were represented by 28 mm musket troops and cavalry.
WoFun-style soldiers being separate (rather than joined into a strip) immediately gave me some ideas.
I had some excess Battle for Macragge round bases, so I slotted the guys into them. The slots are too wide, so you’ll need to break out the glue.
But Dolce was right: bare bases looked somewhat sad.
Some ancient static grass, some Agrellan Mud, and voila, we have wonderful, individually based Napoleonics, ready to serve in whatever game despises multibasing. I know I’d use them in a heartbeat.
Unfortunately, like most WoFun historical kits of any range or creator, Nappy troops come in unit-sized sprues – for example, 24 Nassau Fusilers[sic] at 28 mm or 48 at 18 mm – so it may not be the most economical choice for really small skirmish games like Silver Bayonet. Cheap, sure, but what are you going to do with the 20 guys you have left over?
That was, however, just a minor issue, almost not worth mentioning. However, this being 2026, the year of ensloppification, I was a bit worried: WoFun range (WOF_ on sprues) was the only one not to have a named illustrator. So I reached out to WoFun for a comment. Here’s their reply:
Yes, I can reassure you clearly: the WOF_ range is entirely human-designed. All WOF designs are created by Lucian, our project manager, working closely with our internal design team and in consultation with the rest of our collaborators. There is no AI-generated artwork involved in the WOF line.
The style being distinctive (and as you nicely put it — “cute”!) is very intentional. It’s the result of a deliberate artistic direction aimed at readability on the table, personality in the figures, and visual cohesion across units.
That’s a relief! As a guy working to convince the public that AI use is a moral failing, I would have been conflicted about recommending WoFun: even if a company was supportive of real artists (be they Peter Dennis or not Peter Dennis), it allowing slop to rub elbows with real art would show that they accepted the taint into their hearts.
It’s just a cherry on top to hear that Lucian1 and co were deliberate in their choice of style. And if you go through the various eras of minis on the store, you can see that the WoFun style is as cohesive as that of the other artists.
…and would work well with individual basing, as depicted above!
Standees Good
I’ve long considered WoFun Plexiglas standees to be a grand idea: paper standees, without the downsides of paper! Dolce may not like it too much as it loses the “miniature” part of “collecting miniatures,” but he likes painting minis; I don’t. As I watch my free time contract, I can definitely see WoFun as the preferable to regular miniatures for mass armies, even if said miniatures were as cool as Aventine or Victrix.
Do hit me up if you want to supply the pod with armies, however, wink wink.
- The wikis don’t say that werewolf Lucian is Romanian, but he’s not explicitly Hungarian like Michael either, so get off my back. ↩︎