In my office here at Wi Mansions I have a glass display cabinet which houses my favouritest painted miniatures. Suffice to say, none of them have been painted by me; the work which features more than anyone else is by Brushman Matt Parkes. I’ve known Matt since about 2008 when we
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Take a tour through the Vault and read some classic Wi articles. We've ground our way through the previous year's struggles and emerged into the greener pastures of hope and potential that they call 2023. Hurrah! The yearly reset, along with the downtime that the Christmas holidays provide, tends to give our
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A bonus for WiPrime Members: read the second painting guide for Thalassa. Here, Callum France pushes the brushwork to the limit by creating an Athenian vessel with advanced techniques. Download the full PDF.
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Read the first painting guide for Thalassa where Callum France shows how to get a quality finish through simple but cunning techniques for your first trireme. Download the full PDF.
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Wi Painter Callum shows you how to paint Uthar the Destined from the new Warhammer 40k Leagues of Votann Games Workshop miniature range. https://youtu.be/4aJIDVjSfBU
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A bonus for WiPrime Members: read this article from Wi419, the November 2022 issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine. Callum grabs some of Mark Copplestone’s latest creations and varies up his painting techniques on these neo-retro figures. Download the full PDF.
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Wi Painter Callum shows Project Manager James the Modiphius Fallout Wasteland Warfare miniatures he's painted before demonstrating how you can level up your figures with a few advanced techniques. https://youtu.be/C2eUCFmBsSU
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! After a couple of months without a bagged gift we decided to hit you hard with a haul of possible freebie frames this month. Courtesy of our friends at Warlord Games you will have received one of four splendid sprues:
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We show off our latest Giants in Miniature: Harry Hotspur, before Callum shows you how to paint excellent plate armour. https://youtu.be/mvQOH22kf1g
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July is drawing to a close and after working through a UK meltdown it’s quite a relief to settle down, look back at some old issues of Wargames Illustrated, and imagine the cooler times they were written in! Wargames Illustrated 297 - July 2012 Travel back a decade through the time machine
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! It was great to feel the buzz at the Partizan Wargames Show in Newark, Nottinghamshire recently. So enthused were we by the excitement of the crowds and the quality of the demo games on offer we struggled to contain our
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Prussians, Prussians everywhere: on the new plastic frame from Perry Miniatures (page 50), invading England (page 60), fighting communism (page 78), and indeed lots of other locations thanks to our Prussia at War intro article on page 32. Most importantly,
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Well, it finally got us! After holding out for over two years WiHQ was finally awash with the Coronavirus in March, with five out of six office staff scumming to various levels of infection. Production of this venerable organ, and
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It's the first in a new Wi online series! In Marc's Miniature Monday our in-house painter Marc talks about the projects he's been working on each week. In the inaugural episode, James quizzes Marc about the mighty German Jagdtiger tank from Warlord Games. https://youtu.be/TpY2CkZHBvk
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Wi's new in-house painter Marc premieres his first guide for going about painting great looking shields, using Victrix's new Norman Infantry as his canvas. It features freehand pattern tips, reference guides, accurate battle damage, and of course, what paints he used! Download the full PDF. Enjoy! https://www.wargamesillustrated.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Painting-Norman-Infantry-Shields.pdf
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You’ve checked the options, you’ve cast your votes, we’ve done the counting, we have a winner …… Congratulations to Aurelian Leclerc who is our Readers’ Choice winner with his Saint Louis Conversion! His amazing work and painting (creating a Knight of Dol Amroth from the Lord of the Rings) got
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Taking a bit of a break from our usual offering of minis and books, we’re looking at the Timodel paint shaker. Is it, as the box claims, “Easier, faster, smarter?” Let’s find out. https://youtu.be/skFh23INWNU The text below is a transcript of the video - for those who prefer to read rather than
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We've got some new painting products to look at from the Mig Jimenez AMMO range, both of them aimed at sprayers. Some are f0r use with an airbrush, some not! AMMO Shaders Combining airbrushing and brush work on models can, in the hands of a skilled painter, lead to phenomenal results. These
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This issue comes with a FREE 48 page modelling guide! Available as a free PDF and/or free to purchase as a hard copy for WIPrime members. WI390 was mailed to subscribers on 18 March 2020. It was made available to WIPrime members on 20 March 2020. It will be in hobby
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It’s time we paid tribute to that staple of the wargame - the charge. Whether on foot in command of 15,000 Confederates trying to finally get to those damn Yankees, or riding to glory with the Scots Greys whilst re-fighting Waterloo, the charge is often the watershed moment in both real
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Quickly! Flip to page 36 of this magazine, then come back here…. Good, isn’t it? That’s Alan Sheward’s Stalingrad table. To coincide with this month’s Urban Combat theme Alan, with the help of buddy Adrian Deacon, took the trouble to come to WIHQ with their amazing table and set the whole
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Buy this in Print I remember my old history teacher telling the class “Britain has only ever been successfully invaded three times throughout history. Once by the Romans, then by the Anglo-Saxons and finally by the Normans in 1066”. As a twelve year old boy I just scribbled this down in
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our readers! Our first magazine of 2019 features as its theme: (pre-gunpowder) Empire Building. We have four articles taking us to the great empires of Persia, Rome and Mali then we saddle-up with Genghis Khan and the Mongolian Horde and head to
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OBSERVATION POST More products that have caught our eye, including our ‘Spotted at…’ show feature, connected to Salute this time and with items from other sources to boot. THEME: RICHARD THE LION-CUB How did Richard I become the king known as the Lionheart? Neil Smith and Dom Sore provide some history and a
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OBSERVATION POST Our latest look at new and forthcoming products, including our ‘Spotted at…’ show feature, which this time looks at items from the Tactica show in Hamburg. THEME: SAMURAI Jonas Svensson of Mura Miniatures introduces us to this month’s theme, telling us what we need to know about gaming with Samurai. TRAVELBATTLE The
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THEME: BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS Our lead article considers the draw of using future ‘big names’ in our games and how we can aim to replicate their developing skills on the tabletop. HORSE AND MUSKET BLITZKRIEG Horse and Musket The first of a three part series on the Great Northern War. Barry Hilton presents
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THEME: VENI, VIDI, VICI Veteran wargamer, rules writer and self confessed Caesarian Simon MacDowall introduces us to this month’s theme - Wargaming with Julius Caesar. RULES SHOWCASE: THE CHICAGO WAY We take up our ‘Chicago Typewriters’ and try to bring law to the lawless during the Prohibition era of 1920s America. THEME: WARGAMING PHARSALUS
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THEME: GREAT REPUTATIONS Neil Smith discusses the nature of reputation and how it is to be gained and lost upon the field of battle and tabletop. HAMELIN 1985 The Flames Of War: Team Yankee crew present details on how to integrate the Afgansty veterans of the VDV into your battles for dominance in
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The Armies and Battles of Alexander the Great Ask almost anyone to name the greatest generals of all time and it is fairly reasonable to assume that Alexander the Great’s name will be near the top of their list. Simon MacDowell kicks off this month’s Alexander four article theme with this
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Free Figures! A look at this year’s give-away show figures from Wargames Illustrated (one of which is seen down there on the left!) Waterloo Obsession In our lead article for this month’s theme, Gary Kitching discusses how he, along with many other wargamers, became obsessed with ‘The Battle’. The Reich’s Last Stand The Battlefront
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