Monthly Archives: June 2015

Clubmen

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Clubmen

image image image During the Civil Wars in The Three Kingdoms there was widespread destruction and looting, to help prevent this, in some areas, groups of locals clubbed together to form an armed resistance to whichever army came their way. These bands of armed civilians became known as Clubmen. This term became common for any local civilian militias, whith a number of Clubmen joining the Parlamentarian side at the battle of Leeds.

“I marched from Bradford with six troops of horse, and three companies of dragons… and near one thousand musketeers and two thousand clubmen, under the command of Sir William Fairfax” General Fairfax

Warlord games do a superb characterful range of metal Clubmen in their Pike and Shotte range, are among my favourites in their range, however I decided I needed a few more to bolster my collection. These four are plastic clubmen, ready to aid or hinder Hawksby’s forces depending as they see fit! These are all converted from Warlord plastics, with parts from other plastic kits with scratch scythe and pitch fork tools. The bodies are from the Warlord Plastic Infantry Sprue some of the heads and the axe arm are from the Gripping Beast Dark Ages Warriors sets and the hammer arms are from the Perry miniatures English Army 1415-1429 set.

WIP shots:

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Book One

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Book One

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After over two years, and a couple of serious gaps, book one (or chapter one if you like) of the ongoing adventures of Sir Thomas Hawksby, Matthew Rook, and the green coats is complete. I’d Like to say thanks to the 4000 visitors and nearly 10000 page views this blog has had so far. And I hope you will continue to enjoy the Hawksbys adventures in comic and miniature as they continue.

Here is the full first issue as a downloadable PDF File.

hawksby-toon-pdf-imageFor the full 26 page first book of the comic click on the image to open as a .pdf (5 mb)

Surrounded

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Surrounded

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Duel

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Duel

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Challenge

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