Tuesday 28 July 2020

Robin Hood

Torrential rain in Tradgardland today. I decided to work on some of my Robin Hood figures using cocktail sticks, wire ,masking tape and glue. Just ignore the other figures, more about them later.




10 comments:

  1. Your renovations are looking good, and seem old school in a charming way, using basic items to convert or repair minis. Brilliant stuff!

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    1. Cocktail sticks are very versatile and I am delighted how helpful the vice I bought at the start of lockdown has been. It has saved many a stabbed finger..

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  2. These quarter staves look excellent. I have this friar tuck figure to Repaint from bright red from our childhood collection.
    Here is a link to the Gerald de Gre duelling rules I used with Britain's Robin Hood figures if you want a quick warm up knock out match. https://manoftinblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/30/quarter-staff-fighting-in-sherwood-forest/#comments

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    1. Cocktail sticks are very handy indeed. I have used them recently to fit heads with rather than wire and it has been effective. They are a perfect size to use as quarter staffs or spears with 54mm figures. I am slightly less pleased with the lunging sword arm useage but it was worth a go. . Painted silver it should look not too bad. I am really enjoying those Robin Hood figures and will have a look at the link you sent. The Wyeth paintings have inspired me a great deal.

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  3. Nice work on Friar Tuck, that new stave looks very menacing.

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    1. I certainly wouldn’t like to get clattered over the head with that sturdy piece of wood. Thanks Brian.

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  4. Great work Tradgardmastare - there wasn't much left to work with on the red figure!

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  5. More about him anon. He was in a bad way but is working his way back to gaming fitness. His face and the face of Little John have been scrapped away to almost nothing. Sometimes I do wonder why the figures are damaged the way they are. These have been a tad brittle to work on and have not taken the drill easily at all.

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  6. Looking at the Wyeth picture I can’t help but think of John Cleese in Time Bandits. “Have you met the poor?”

    It’s great that you’re tackling these restorations. Such a lot of work on what might have been inexpensive toys in their day, but possibly you’re returning some small boy’s treasured possessions to former glory.

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  7. Indeed, re Time Bandits. I do enjoy giving these figures another chance, a gaming future. I also wonder about their previous campaigns and generals. I can’t remember where my boyhood figures went but hope they made others happy.

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