Having trouble viewing the flipbook magazine? View and download it instead! What could be more fun than modelling with motor torpedo boats? Not much we figured, which is why we are giving one away with every copy of this From the Workbench to the Gaming Table-themed magazine. You will have received a German S-Boat, British Vosper, or American PT Boat with this issue*, and you will find several examples of how to construct your model by searching for ‘Cruel Seas’ online. Once you have done that, why not get a bit more creative by following some of the modelling ideas offered by Wi hobbyist Matt Parkes and become the envy of the tabletop with your marvellously modelled motorboat? See page 28 for Matt’s tricks and tips. You will find more modelling ideas that fit our theme throughout this month’s magazine, from seagulls in your Never Mind the Boathooks games, to freestyle painting on Gripping Beast Cataphracts. However, please feel free to keep your modelling tools in their drawer and just admire the work of your peers in our Partizan 2023 report, where we set our sights on the model-making prowess on show. Happy reading and rolling. Dan Faulconbridge Editor and Owner OBSERVATION POST Lots of new releases to pick through this month, taking us from the American Revolution to horrors in the Carpathians. RELEASE RADAR Not much gets past Dom Sore as he hones his radar on more new hobby releases. QUICK FIRE In keeping with this month’s theme, your fellow readers have some interesting modelling ideas for you, amongst other quick reads. THEME: FRAME FOCUS: CUSTOMISING CRUEL SEAS Matt Parkes adds extra detailing and custom water basing to this month’s free Cruel Seas model frames. SHOW REPORT: PARTIZAN MAY 2023 Hurray - Partizan is back! We train our camera lens on some of the best demo tables from the show, and ask those who put them together to tell us how and why? THEME: BREAKING FREE FROM THE STEP-BY-STEPS James goes ‘freestyle’ and paints some of Gripping Beast’s plastic Cataphracts. SURPRISE! A MATTER OF SOME INSURGENCY Inspired by his rebellious ancestor, Hone Heke, Aramiha Harwood supplies a system-agnostic insurgency scenario for you to enjoy. TOY-BASHING A HORROR FOR THE DOOMED Ana Polanšćak returns with some toybashing tales of constructing a ‘big baddie’ for Osprey’s new grimdark skirmish game. FIGURE SPOTLIGHT: RUSSIAN NAPOLEONIC UHLANS Alan chats to us about Perry Miniatures’ latest plastic box set release. THEME: LASWARI, 1803 The Boondock Sayntes’ recreation of Laswari, 1803 at Partizan May 2023 had so many little details that we felt it deserved a showcase article all to itself. SALUTE 50: PAINTING COMPETITION A look at some of our favourite entries in the
