Author Topic: Robin Hood Swashbuckling - Larger than life (update 19/11) (Read 7644 times)

white knight · « **Reply #15 on:** August 25, 2017, 06:15:34 AM »

Reliving the years of our youth is what this hobby is all about.

Corso · « **Reply #16 on:** August 25, 2017, 06:59:04 AM »

Absolutely stunning

Well done!

I still like old movies, with Robert Taylor's Ivanhoe being one of the best.

white knight · « **Reply #17 on:** August 31, 2017, 04:46:29 PM »

I had picked up this set of OOP "Jolly Friars" from Lemax to add to my Robin Hood project. They were standing on a thick slab of a base that made them tower over the other figures. Lowering that base was not a pleasant endavour but I'm glad I did it. Unfortunately the casting on these was not the best, so painting them was a bit of a chore. This wasn't helped by the fact that I initially started to repaint them in the same colours as the original, which had the side-effect that even when they were almost done, they never stopped looking like the christmas junk that they are to me. Now I tend to have The Adventures of Robin Hood playing in the background for inspiration when working on these and then my attention was drawn to those blackclad monks that follow the Bishop around in the movie and do his bidding. I quickly decided to paint over the robes in black and turn them into black canuns. It seems to have worked as now I can view them as proper figures even though they are still rough in places.

Black canuns vs Lemax Jolly Friars

I'm not too happy with the faces, but they'll do fine for some cheap background figures.

Robbing you blind while looking all pious...

The Bishop of Nottingham and his cronies

And the original inspiration...

Friar Tuck is not impressed by the black canuns' arguments

wolfkarl · « **Reply #18 on:** August 31, 2017, 05:09:40 PM »

These three fellows look far too jolly to be with the Bishop, he looks suitably annoyed with them. Look at the pictures, they look far more at home with Friar Tuck.

white knight · « **Reply #19 on:** August 31, 2017, 06:04:45 PM »

That just means they're incompetent fools...

white knight · « **Reply #20 on:** September 03, 2017, 06:31:34 PM »

Another update, another Lemax conversion and repaint. This one is a chaperone or a lady-in-waiting for Maid Marion. I used a Lemax nun as the base figure. Because classic nun outfits are basically medieval in style anyway. While I wasn't going to change the base figure much initially, I ended up converting her quite a bit. Her height was raised by lengthening her dress and adding a new base, her sleeves were changed, as was her collar and headdress.

The chaperone and the donor figure

Overall, I think the changes were succesful into hiding her origins and turning her into a proper medieval lady. A radically different choice of colours also helps to make forget her past. I think I finally found a skin recipe for these figures that I'm happy with, though after finishing her, I can't help but feel her face looks a lot like Rowan Atkinson... Once she is varnished, the minor rough spots should hopefully look a bit smoother too.

That Robin fellow better keep his manners (and his hands to himself)

Tssss... that modern "music" is giving me a headache.

DintheDin · « **Reply #21 on:** September 03, 2017, 10:15:49 PM »

Beautiful and successful conversion! A real lady-in-waiting! May I add that I adore the jolly friars

mweaver · « **Reply #22 on:** September 04, 2017, 12:33:39 PM »

Well done on those Lemax figures. The conversions to the chaperone are very effective.

-Michael

white knight · « **Reply #23 on:** September 05, 2017, 10:55:17 AM »

Thanks for the comments! Am I the only one who's seeing Mr. Bean in drag then?

DintheDin · « **Reply #24 on:** September 05, 2017, 11:02:55 AM »

Quote from: white knight on September 05, 2017, 10:55:17 AM

Thanks for the comments! Am I the only one who's seeing Mr. Bean in drag then?

white knight · « **Reply #25 on:** September 07, 2017, 04:32:25 PM »

That is so much worse...

white knight · « **Reply #26 on:** September 10, 2017, 06:15:19 PM »

Newly painted for the Robin Hood collection, some woodland animals, namely some deer and a (cunning?) fox. These are all repaints of Lemax figures again. Painting animals is hard by the way...