The inspiration for this month’s ‘How to…’ is the cover photograph from the excellent book, Lost London 1875-1945. You can find the guide to build this project in WI338, December 2015 Download the plans here: Make a Victorian shop
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A couple of years ago we got the opportunity to photograph Bill Gaskin's excellent American War of Independence collection. This article appeared in WI312 - October 2013, but incase you didn't get to see it, you can download it here. Photographing the AWI
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In our new publication ‘Wargames Illustrated Paints’ we reference an article from WI287 - The Four C’s of Painting by Joe Sleboda. If you purchased the PDF version of WI Paints this article features as one of the two bonus chapters. If you purchased the print version don’t worry you’re
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In the upcoming issue of Wargames Illustrated 337, you will find a guide by Rob Henson on the painting of the 4,000 plus figures for the Agincourt wargames diorama seen in current issue 336. Below, you can read a write up by the Royal Armories and Andrew Isherwood's take on painting
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Download the plans to build your very own Ruined Temple. The how to article for these plans can be found in WI336.
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Wargames Illustrated Campaign Days are hosted every few months at WIHQ in Nottingham, England. Our 24 person capacity, carpeted, air conditioned and light gaming room is the venue for any number of different rule systems, but each day is played out using the same philosophy – we don’t do tournaments,
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Roger Gerrish very kindly submitted the following text and initial photographs regarding this most recent show. Saturday 12 September 2015 saw the triumphant return of the Colours show to Newbury Racecourse after one year’s absence. Although now truncated to just the Saturday, I’m pleased to say that the show was its
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Whilst the majority of the Terminator movies take place amongst the pre- or post-apocalyptic ruins of America’s cities, we got to thinking about the war against Skynet on a more global scale. What about in other environments, or those Resistance bands without the high tech weapons of John Connor’s teams?
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In it’s last outing at Kelham Hall, the double act behind Partizan once again proved why this is a show you really should visit. A whole variety of traders, numerous industry ‘glitterati’ and some really inspiring games are a staple of what many would call a ‘local show’ but those
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We have way more photos than we could fit in the magazine so are posting them here. You can read the full show report by Paul Davies in WI335, September. Agincourt 1415 With two significant anniversaries to choose from this year, on Sunday, the Last Chance wargamers decided to pack away their
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An overview of the rules based upon the scenario played during the photoshoot, ably crafted by Roger Gerrish. Nick Ayres was recently invited to Wargames Illustrated HQ to demonstrate his new set of Post-WWII Wargames rules 3rd Generation Warfare. As luck would have it I was visiting Nottingham that week so
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In WI 334 our regular Master Modelmaker Paul Davies is on hand to answer one of those questions you never knew you needed to ask - How do you build a Napoleonic Invasion Balloon? Here you can download the plans to help you build the project. Download the plans here: How to...
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The current issue of Wargames Illustrated takes the theme of 'Alexander the Great - God of War' and features four article on this famous heavy-weight of ancient history. This issue is sold out via our website, but you still have a few days to pick up a copy via WH Smith
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Every year Wargames Illustrated makes the Historicon painting competition happen, working in collaboration with show organisers The HMGS, we collect in all the entries, display them, judge them and award the converted trophies to the winners. This year’s entries were divided into ten different categories, with two ‘bonus’ categories of ‘Best
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Wargames Illustrated 333, July issue, takes the theme of Alexander the Great – God of War. We mixed up slightly with some of the photographs and those included on page 14, 15 and 16 are credited to the Like A Stonewall Wargames Group’s Hydaspes game, when actually they weren’t LaSW
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For Wargames Illustrated 333 Simon Macdowall provided us with four great articles on Alexander the Great, space didn’t allow for his fifth - a painting guide for Alexander’s companions - so we include that here on the website for your browsing pleasure. Over to Simon…. To get Alexander’s miniature army ready
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Being an account of the nefarious Adventures of various Ne’er Do Wells and Plucky Heroes around the streets of London, Heart of the Empire, circa. 1895. Whilst lesser mortals were languishing a-bed, brave men were arriving at Wargames Illustrated HQ in Beeston, Nottingham, UK to take part in our latest gaming
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To go with Gary Mitchell’s gaming ideas based upon a very British post-apocalypse world, we present here character archetype cards for you to download and use. Tactical Rules For ‘GAMING ‘SURVIVORS’© BBC Game 'Survivors' Cards Download The Article to go with this game can be found in issue WI333, Available here.
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Wargames Illustrated took a trip down to deepest darkest Wiltshire recently to take 4Ground up on an offer of a tour of their factory. Since turning their hand (or rather their lasers) to the production of Wargaming buildings and accessories four years ago, 4Ground have established themselves as the largest in
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Now that you've read the article and probably seen the movie, why not transfer all that action to the tabletop!? Presented here largely as it was given to us, we have the perfect way to enter the high octane 'white line nightmare' of the Post Apocalyptic world. The vintage of these
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For our recent Lion Rampant Campaign Day, held at WIHQ, we presented all of the attendees with a custom made LR QRF in their goodie bag. So you don’t miss out you can download it here. Lion Rampant QRF 01 Lion Rampant QRF 02
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The latest issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine includes two sheets of Jacobite and Government (circa 1745) ‘Paper Soldiers’, created by artist Peter Dennis. You can download more for free here. For a simple set of rules for using the figures on the table see WI332, June issue. You can download your free
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To accompany this month'a 'How To...' article we have uploaded the plans for 'The Lychgate'. Just right-click and 'Save as' or 'Download linked file'.
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Following our 'How To...' articles from issue 329 and 330 this bonus article explains how to modify your church walls to maximize their usage on the tabletop! I always try to get the maximum usage from whatever I build. Although these walls and lychgate are intended to enclose the medieval church,
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