Steve’s Hobby Blog

After finishing my Crusader army for now, I decided to turn my attention back to my Samurai collection. The new Bill Hooks Redux book is finally in production and is due to be published later this year. Although the text is all written for the Samurai version of Bill Hooks, there will no doubt be a need for some pictures to illustrate the rules, so I wanted to give Dan, the e...

As promised, here is my second blog article on my Turcopole units. My plan was to make and paint two units of six Turcopoles to act as mounted skirmishers for my Crusader army. I had carried out some initial research using the books that I had in my collection and the usual internet sources at my disposal, Google search, Pinterest and Wikipedia to name but three.

Following my return from the excellent Battleground show at Middlesbrough, I was leafing through a catalogue given out by Tiger Miniatures and noticed that they had a simple scenario for Elizabethan troops in Ireland. That was enough to inspire me to come up with my own similar scenario using the only Elizabethan troo...