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 next issue's introductory theme article where Pete Brown examines an assortment of Insurgency campaign possibilities. Download the full PDF.
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Take a tour through the Vault and read some classic Wi articles. Wargames Illustrated 361 - November 2017 Five years ago Wi's theme explored cavalry but the issue started with Observation Post - our ongoing monthly column that takes a look at new releases... or in this case old releases! It's interesting
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September is coming to a close; what better way to finish up the month than taking a look in the Vault and enjoying some vintage Wi goodies? Wargames Illustrated 359 - September 2017 Did Mark's Little Soldiers catch your eye in our latest issue? Can you see some pulp potential? This issue
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For this Miniature Monday, we document Callum's and James' process of building some of Micro Art Studios' MDF pre-painted terrain. Both hobbyists put their terrain tasking skills to the test and race to the finish in this great British build-off! https://youtu.be/0dC5wcfIhMk
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Project Manager James provides a flipthrough tour of Valhalla Games' The Battle of Primosole Bridge. https://youtu.be/H2ZkclHi3b0
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We take an exclusive early look at the new Bolt Action: Bersaglieri plastic miniatures from Warlord Games. https://youtu.be/mk1hH9wAGIc
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Callum and James give you a tour of what frames to expect when you purchase a copy of Wi417, the September 2022 issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine, as well as a small preview of the painting guide included. https://youtu.be/MrpumMEJkKs
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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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It’s August, it’s cooling down enough in the UK for us to brave trips into the Wi basement where our gaming table lives (so too do many terrible things that we can’t mention here), and we’ve got a gaming theme to this month’s From the Vault, inspired by the new
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Wi Project Manager James 'unboxes' and reviews the latest Warlord Games Bolt Action A Gentleman's War Starter Set. https://youtu.be/XYbc8az7oSw
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A bonus for WiPrime members: read this article from Wi417, the September 2022 issue of Wargames Illustrated magazine. Dr David B James has been working on his 10mm/12mm WWII desert warfare figures for over a decade. Wi recently visited The Worcester Wargames Club, where David is a member, and we snapped
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A new bonus for WiPrime Members: read Observation Post ahead of its publication in Wargames Illustrated and see what we think of some of the latest wargaming releases. This instalment features two books - Wargaming Campaigns by Henry Hyde, and Armoured Storm by Daniel Mersey - along with Rogues for Test
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Wi Painter Callum details how he painted Wargames Atlantic's Panzer Lehr miniatures to a good standard whilst also keeping an eye on the time. https://youtu.be/ib_s1tiKaz4
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A new bonus for WiPrime members: read Observation Post ahead of its publication in Wargames Illustrated and see what we think of some of the latest wargaming releases. This instalment features Crooked Dice's latest 7TV expansion Vlad's Army, ACW naval rules Dawn of War, and Oprey Games' Frostgrave Fireheart. Download the full
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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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Editor Dan and Project Manager James unbox Warlord Games' latest release; Bolt Action: Combined Arms. https://youtu.be/no0tvC-ARog
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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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This new box set of plastic minis from Wargames Atlantic was slightly delayed due to shifting production from China to the US, but the figures are worth the wait. The set of five infantry frames offers up six different bodies, and there are also two frames featuring a command figure
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Check out this article from Wi408, available early for our Prime members to enjoy. Gee Walsh kitbashes a selection of Warlord Games plastics and makes figures for some of WWII's more unusual and less commonly available British units. Download the full PDF. https://www.wargamesillustrated.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Great-British-Kit-Bash.pdf
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The Wargames Illustrated team dig through the Vault to bring you some latest issue tie-ins. The theme of the next magazine (September 2021, Wi405) is ‘What if?’, it’s a subject we have visited, re-visited, then visited again numerous times over the years in Wi, leaving us, or rather you, with an
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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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Our in-house Painter Marc and Project Manager James take you through the latest Bolt Action starter set in this unboxing. Will this be the perfect box set for wargamers looking to venture into the WW2 Pacific campaign? Watch our video to find out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTjHtmtxXo
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It’s been almost a year since we last looked at Victory at Sea, the WW2 1:1800 game of naval warfare from Warlord Games. Included in the releases we looked at in 2020 were flights of Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zeros – those planes would have appreciated one of these new releases,
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We’re unboxing a new plastic box set from PSC and building a couple of the six 1/72 scale WW2 trucks inside! Quite a bargain from PSC here - a set of six Russian GAZ trucks that average out at just £5 ($7 US) each. Included in the box are six frames
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Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! Little did we know, when we choose Turning Points as our theme for this issue, that Wargames Illustrated would be facing a turning of its own. At the end of May 2021, just as we went to print with the
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We open up this new set and have a good look at some of WW2’s most elite combatants - the Panzer-Lehr. It seems like only last week we were talking about elite German troops from WW2 *checks the previous articles* and it was! This time we’re examining some Warlord Games Panzer-Lehr.
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Offensive Miniatures add to their Elite: Waffen SS range with this set of ten 28mm miniatures, armed with more anti-tank firepower than you can shake a Sherman at. It seems gamers have an insatiable appetite for the elites of the Third Reich - we get almost as many new lots of
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New from Offensive Miniatures, an addition to their Elite catalogue, it’s a “Jedburgh” Team. This set of four figures joins the Offensive Miniatures British Paras range and represents the teams of specialists who parachuted into France during WW2. Over 90 ‘Jed’ teams joined the fighting in Normandy in the later
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