Please note: This month’s issue comes with one of three Skytrex Cruel Seas WWII Motor Torpedo Boats.
What could be more fun than modelling with motor torpedo boats? Not much we figured, which is why we are giving one away with every copy of this From the Workbench to the Gaming Table-themed magazine. You will have received a German S-Boat, British Vosper, or American PT Boat with this issue*, and you will find several examples of how to construct your model by searching for ‘Cruel Seas’ online. Once you have done that, why not get a bit more creative by following some of the modelling ideas offered by Wi hobbyist Matt Parkes and become the envy of the tabletop with your marvellously modelled motorboat? See page 28 for Matt’s tricks and tips.
You will find more modelling ideas that fit our theme throughout this month’s magazine, from seagulls in your Never Mind the Boathooks games, to freestyle painting on Gripping Beast Cataphracts. However, please feel free to keep your modelling tools in their drawer and just admire the work of your peers in our Partizan 2023 report, where we set our sights on the model-making prowess on show.
Happy reading and rolling.
Dan Faulconbridge
Editor and Owner
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 toybashing 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.
