Wargames Illustrated WI427 July 2023 Edition

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et a Cruel Seas motor torpedo boat sprue free* with this month's edition of Wargames Illustrated.

OBSERVATION POST

Lots of new releases to pick through this month, taking us from the American Revolution to horrors in the Carpathians.

RELEASE RADAR

Not much gets past Dom Sore as he hones his radar on more new hobby releases.

QUICK FIRE

In keeping with this month’s theme, your fellow readers have some interesting modelling ideas for you, amongst other quick reads.

THEME: FRAME FOCUS: CUSTOMISING CRUEL SEAS

Matt Parkes adds extra detailing and custom water basing to this month’s free Cruel Seas model frames.

SHOW REPORT: PARTIZAN MAY 2023

Hurray - Partizan is back! We train our camera lens on some of the best demo tables from the show, and ask those who put them together to tell us how and why?

THEME: BREAKING FREE FROM THE STEP-BY-STEPS

James goes ‘freestyle’ and paints some of Gripping Beast’s plastic Cataphracts.

SURPRISE! A MATTER OF SOME INSURGENCY

Inspired by his rebellious ancestor, Hone Heke, Aramiha Harwood supplies a system agnostic insurgency scenario for you to enjoy.

TOY-BASHING A HORROR FOR THE DOOMED

Ana Polanšćak returns with some toy-bashing tales of constructing a ‘big baddie’ for Osprey’s new grimdark skirmish game.

FIGURE SPOTLIGHT: RUSSIAN NAPOLEONIC UHLANS

Alan chats to us about Perry Miniatures’ latest plastic box set release.

THEME: LASWARI, 1803

The Boondock Sayntes’ recreation of Laswari, 1803 at Partizan May 2023 had so many little details that we felt it deserved a showcase article all to itself.

SALUTE 50: PAINTING COMPETITION

A look at some of our favourite entries in the Salute 2023 Painting Competition.

THEME: DEFENDING LOTHLORIEN

Dean Bailey shares some atmospherically lit photos of his club’s Lord of the Rings game and tells us how he shot them.

WHY I LOVE: TWIGLET REDUX

Bill Gray shares his appreciation for Twilight of the Sun King.

THEME: BUILDING A KITBASHING BITS BOX

Keen kitbasher Ana Polanšćak shares her recommendations on plastic kits that offer the most bash for your buck.

PROJECT SHOWCASE: THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR ITCH

We take a tour of David Bickley’s Seven Years’ War collection and learn how he went about mustering his forces.