You’ve probably already noticed the first of our new WiPrime Collections in the Vault. These leather-bound tomes (digital PDFs if you’re the less romantic type) are a new addition, packed with themed articles that will make browsing your favourite subjects a pleasure. The first Collection covers the Crusades and since its launch, I’ve been busy scouring old issues and bringing together more article omnibuses. My initial intention was to create a Painting and Modelling PDF; I’ve worked back through just over 100 issues, to Wi330, and already picked out enough articles to make six editions! Wi’s hobby content gets a little less consistent the further back you go - painting has come on leaps and bounds since 2015 and so have our photos and the quality of our content - but I’m sure I’ll keep locating further intriguing articles. Next up I’ll change my search to ‘Napoleonics’. I’m rather intimidated by just how many articles I’ll have to sift through for that one. I’ll start the bidding for the eventual number of Collections at 13! Dig into the Vault The theme of Wi435 - our April issue - is Hobby, which is why the second issue of WiPrime Collections will cover the same subject. That’ll come out mid-April but if you can’t wait to bring more hobby goodness into your life here are some of the exciting articles that I spotted on my research trip into the Vault: In Wi279 painting legend Kev Dallimore provides a ten-page piece that goes deep into his Conversion of a Late Roman Cavalryman. Pimp your StuG III, from Wi340, is a great Phil Lewis guide to bringing all kinds of extra detail to vehicles. Building Old Worlds, in Wi343, has Dave Taylor - another of the hobby’s heroes – constructing an MDF dockland board for steampunk gaming. Short but sweet articles on armour painting, from Simon Bradley, start in Wi356. Wi394 saw my first hobby article published in Wi. Billhooks Movement Trays show how I used counter slots and magnets thematically. Prussian Attack on Plancenoit, from Wi415, is my favourite project from our former painter Marc Shucksmith-Wesley. And, another former Wi painter, Callum France, showed off some great skills while Painting Mark's Little Soldiers in Wi419.
