Steve’s Hobby Blog

I’ll start with my usual apology for not posting regularly. It’s almost six months since my last post and as usual, I have been busy, although it’s not all been modelling. The last month has been spent on holidaying in Tarragona, Watching the World Cup ( it’s difficult to paint with high blood pressure!), a ten day road trip to the West Country (including three castle visits ...

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...

It’s been a long term goal of mine to build a Medieval Village or Farm. Partly as a modelling project and partly as a way of expanding my scenery collection for use on the wargames table. I really liked the idea of using the Sarrissa Precision Terrain tiles as I could build the farm or village in modules and expand it at my leisure. I had built a small Church and a barn somet...

OK, I’m sorry, it’s a cheap click bait title to what is really a work bench update! There is some truth in the title though. If you have read my previous blog on how I stay motivated, you will realise that I tend to plan my hobby output six months in advance. For the six months from June to December, my main focus has been and will be to work through my Lead Pile or Model Sta...