Robin Hood - 1:72 scale

[CyberAlien312]

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  ) 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):

Will Scarlett (I suppose...):

Little John (I think):


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.

[Hummster]

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.

[Stu]

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

[Barry S]

Nice work!

Cheers,

Barry

[Paul]

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

[Patrice]

Excellent!

I had these when I was a child.

[CyberAlien312]

Thanks guys! 

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: