Fight The 2nd Anglo-Boer War With 1st Corps New Miniatures
July 1, 2026 by brennon
1st Corps has released the first miniatures for their new 28mm scale 2nd Anglo-Boer War range that covers the fighting from 1899 through to 1902. This is a collaboration between Richie Hall and 1st Corps and the range contains miniatures for the British and the Boers.
General Jacobus Philippus Snyman // 1st Corps
We start with the Boers rather than the British and one of the iconic and dominant military figures of the time. General Jacobus Philippus Snyman made his name throughout the First Boer War, mainly of the battles in between and other conflicts and then, of course, the Second Boer War. Despite being sixty-one years old when the Second Boer War started, he became part of an experienced leadership team.
He captured armoured trains, set traps for the British, destroyed railway lines and bridges and was commander at the Siege of Mafeking. You can read more about his rather wild adventures HERE.
Snyman needs some soldiers to lead and that comes in the form of a set of Boers Skirmishing.
Boers Skirmishing // 1st Corps
This gives you a great set of miniatures to start crafting your Boer force for battling the British on the tabletop. I like that they are in a variety of dynamic and interesting poses which mean that they should be great for using as part of a skirmish game where the poses come into their own for creating interesting battlefields.
Boer War British
On the other side of this conflict, we have the British. They have a few more miniatures to get you started, including two sets of Infantry Command to lead the way on the battlefield.
British Infantry Command // 1st Corps
British Infantry Command with Telescope // 1st Corps
You can either choose from the British Infantry Command set or the British Infantry Command with Telescope, who are clearly ranging in some artillery and keeping an eye on the flow of the battle going on on the plains below them. This has made me realise that if you're looking for an easy conflict to paint, the Boer War is a pretty good one. You don't need that many colours to get a full fighting force ready, do you?
British Infantry Firing // 1st Corps
British Infantry Charging // 1st Corps
There are also six different sets of sculpts for your British Infantry that come in a mixture of poses. I've just shown off the Firing and Charging miniatures here but you can see the whole range of British Infantry for yourself over on their website.
This marks just the start of the Boer War range by 1st Corps, with more miniatures coming out, sculpted by Martin Baker, who has worked on the collection you see here. Future miniatures for the collection will feature Boer and British Artillery as well as Highlanders and Cavalry.
Could this be a good start to your Boer War collection?
"This gives you a great set of miniatures to start crafting your Boer force for battling the British on the tabletop..."
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A war that I’ve always been interested in. Ice visited some of the battlefields and the conflict offers a lit of options. If you like colonial wars where both sides have artillery. It’s a ww1 light
It’s also a war that many Canadian regiments were founded for, including two of our three armoured regiments. One of them literally has a springbok bounding as its cap badge. Many VCs won during the war, too.
Unfortunately the records for the Canadians during the Boer War were lost in a fire during the WW2 blitz.
Same for us Australians. Although our memory is a little soured by the whole Breaker Morant situation but it did mean our Military has never had the death penalty.
Canadian Involvement in the Boer War is probably also the last time a single man raised and funded a Regiment, the Strathcona’s Horse raised by Lord Strathcona the High Commissioner to Great Britain.
Indeed! LdSH(RC) are the ONLY tank-equipped regiment in Canada today. My regiment was affiliated with them, and I also spent 3 years at their museum here.
Crazy to think one could raise a regiment with private funds – how utterly posh is that?
The Strats deployed with a young Lieutenant who went on to command the PPCLI at Vimy Ridge in 1917 – LCol Agar Adamson.
The Boer War was really the start of “modern” Canadian identity and history.
The other regiment is the Royal Canadian Dragoons.
I found a source claiming it cost around $1,000,000 Canadian Dollars to set up and maintain the Regiment for the War. That’s about $35-40 Million CAD today. Honestly that’s not too crazy, at his death his estate was worth around $15 Million which is only $450 Million today, he might scrape into the top 100 of Canada today.
Maybe it’s time to bring back the Private Regiment idea but for corporations? Imagine the 3rd Coca Cola taking a town while the 2nd Meta support them flanked by the 24th Aldi. Might not be the best idea.