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Title: Robin Hood - 1:72 scale
Post by: CyberAlien312 on 10 February 2013, 01:50:08 PM

Right, so these are the first 1:72 scale figures I've ever painted, since I normally paint 25-28mm figures. These are the Airfix Robin Hood figures. Although the sculpts are pretty good (but small  ;D) the casts are terrible. There's an awful lot of excess plastic and it's pretty hard to clean it away. Still, there's a lot of figures for the low price and I've always wanted to paint some Robin Hood figures. As I have been watching Robin of Sherwood a lot lately (I'm currently watching series 2), I had to pick these up when I saw them. I painted these three figures today, and they're very easy to paint.

Right, enough talk, here's some pictures  ::):
Robin (the hooded man without a hood):
(http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg624/CyberAlien312/RobinHood1_zps8a45b526.png)
Will Scarlett (I suppose...):
(http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg624/CyberAlien312/RobinHood2_zps919c44a0.png)
Little John (I think):
(http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg624/CyberAlien312/RobinHood3_zps820529c7.png)

It's a shame the figures on the box aren't named, so I had no idea who some of these figures were. Also, the quantities as shown on the box are completely wrong. For example, I have 4 models of a figure of which the box clearly says: x1. Oh, well. They were cheap, after all.

Title: Re: Robin Hood - 1:72 scale
Post by: Hummster on 10 February 2013, 01:52:02 PM

I suspect the casting problems are due to the sheer age of the moulds - those did get first released in 1964 after all!

Nice paintwork anyway.

Title: Re: Robin Hood - 1:72 scale
Post by: Stu on 10 February 2013, 03:36:29 PM

There has always been confusion about which figure is which, they are useful as militia though.

Title: Re: Robin Hood - 1:72 scale
Post by: Barry S on 11 February 2013, 02:01:03 AM

Nice work!

Cheers,

Barry

Title: Re: Robin Hood - 1:72 scale
Post by: Paul on 11 February 2013, 03:29:09 PM

great paintjob!! Are they the HaT re-releases? The ones with a lot of flash and made from soft plastic?

Title: Re: Robin Hood - 1:72 scale
Post by: Patrice on 11 February 2013, 04:12:18 PM

Excellent!

I had these when I was a child. ::)

Title: Re: Robin Hood - 1:72 scale
Post by: CyberAlien312 on 11 February 2013, 04:15:23 PM

Thanks guys!  :)

Quote from: Paul on 11 February 2013, 03:29:09 PM

great paintjob!! Are they the HaT re-releases? The ones with a lot of flash and made from soft plastic?

Well, they did have a lot of flash and were made from soft plastic, but I don't think they were from HaT. The box looked like this:
(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/AIRFIX-01720-ROBIN-HOOD-1-72-SCALE-FIGURES-/04/!BgHnMwQ!Wk~$(KGrHqMOKiMErzEoosO9BLEB-m8rg!~~_35.JPG)