Wargames Illustrated WI422 February 2023 Edition

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WIPrime Members can download a selection of exclusive STL files every month to print, paint, and game with. This article covers our February selection.

OBSERVATION POST

Our monthly examination of new releases.

FULL PAPER JACKET

Neil Smith picks this month’s page-turners.

RELEASE RADAR

Dom Sore provides help locating the most exciting and unusual upcoming hobby releases.

THEME: CHASING THE WIND

Pete Brown introduces this month’s theme with an assortment of Insurgency campaign possibilities you can play out on the tabletop.

GROWING AN ARMY FROM SCRATCH

Wargames Illustrated’s Office Manager Ian has become our 3D printing champion over the last few months. In this article, he shares what he learned while getting to grips with our ELEGOO Mars 3 Pro.

THEME: THE MAKHNOVIST INSURGENCY

Simon Fletcher tells us about a miniature insurgent force he has put together and provides background information for the anarchist army of Nestor Makhno.

WI 2022 AWARDS

Sit back, relax, and take in the results of last year’s Wargames Illustrated Awards.

THEME: VIVE LA FRANCE

Graham Davey talks to us about his new 02 Hundred Hours Partisan Resistance Cell expansion, perfectly timed to fit our Insurgency theme.

HOW TO… MAKE A RUSSIAN ARMOURED LOCOMOTIVE

Paul Davies gives a Sarissa MDF kit some love (and extra armour) to build one of the many armoured trains from the Russian Civil War.

THEME: THE MOST EXCITING EPISODE EVER KNOWN - BOXERS VERSUS BULLETS!

Mike Blake and Chris Swan present a Designer’s Notes on their new book A Wargamer’s Guide to the Boxer Uprising.

ADVANCED TRIREME PAINTING

Callum France shares how to paint an Athenian vessel that would take pride of place in any display cabinet!

THEME: SISTERS OF THE RESISTANCE

Neil Smith shines a spotlight on some of the fascinating women who took part in the French Resistance and suggests a scenario to bring them to the tabletop.

THE FOURTH PUNIC WAR

Daniel Mersey’s fascinating new project mixes up his Xenos Rampant rules, the Mark’s Little Soldiers miniature range, and a dash of ‘what if?’ history.

A WORLD OF DIGITAL MINIS

Dom Sore details some of the companies offering STL files for home 3D printing and gets the scoop on Atlantic Digital in an interview with Wargames Atlantic’s main man, Hudson Adams.

RED DAWN SOVIET STARTER SET

David Bickley and his gaming buddy Phil Robinson get their mitts on the new bumper box set from Battlefront and waste no time in getting the models conscripted into their ranks.