Wargames Illustrated’s themes get shunted around more than enthusiastic bumper car drivers and our best-laid plans are ruined by various things. Those things are usually far more exciting than they are troublesome, so it’s not too bad really! The issue we will send to the printers very soon was going to be all about ‘Revisited’ articles. These pieces touch on gaming events from yesteryear, revisit old favourite games and mini ranges (seeing how they hold up), or go back to older articles and add updates from the author who has now (hopefully) learned a thing or two. Andy Callan returns to his Loose Files and the American Scramble piece from the very first issue of Wi in one article, for example, and in another Pete Brown revisits the Battle of Aughrim in 10mm. You’ll have to wait an extra month to read all of this though. We’re taking some extra time to get more content through from some hobby notables. That means there’s space in the July issue for a new theme; with a sudden glut of painting and terrain-making articles to choose from we’ve made Wi427 hobby heaven. There are pieces on adding detail to and painting Skytrex's WWII boats for Cruel Seas, rigging up impressive lighting displays to enhance fantasy scenes, using oil paints to complete units quickly, kitbashing figures using parts from various plastic box sets, and more. WiDigital revisits some classics Matt Parkes hasn’t just been painting Cruel Seas ships. He’s also finishing off splashing paint on the three WiDigital STL characters for the Revisited theme. We’ll put his painting guide for them online once he's done, for you, our WiPrime Members, to access early. That’ll mean you can get this characterful trio printed, painted, and on the tabletop. A peek at other upcoming articles It’s not just painted figures ahead, there are some cracking wargaming articles on the way too and we’ve selected a few to preview here: Nick Buxey plays a ‘what if?’ Death in the Dark Continent game that brings the Fashoda Incident to the tabletop. This is Nick’s first Wi article for far too long and we’re very happy to have his words and photos back in the magazine. We've missed you, Nick! If you want to try out something a bit different how about Muskets & Tomahawks battles around Māori Pā? Mark Piper returns to the New Zealand Wars and presents three different scenarios for the game in his piece. A bit further away is an article from former Wi Painter Callum France called Regimenting the Dead. Callum shows how he ranked up a unit of Warlord Games’ Sláine figures to use them in a fantasy styled game of Never Mind
