Robin Hood Swashbuckling - Larger than life (update 19/11)

[white knight]

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

[Corso]

Absolutely stunning

Well done!

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

[white knight]

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]

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]

That just means they're incompetent fools...

[white knight]

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]

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

[mweaver]

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

-Michael

[white knight]

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

[DintheDin]

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

 

[white knight]

That is so much worse... 

[white knight]

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...


Deer family minding it's own business...


Almost too easy...


Father deer/dear...


...and the little ones


Lemax fox repaint
 

You know, I hear Disney is casting a fox to play me on the big screen...

[DintheDin]

Veeery nice pictures, this thread is doing me good, I sit back I look at your pictures, relax and think of my childhood 
By the way, you managed very well the deerskin color and the fox is very foxy  Keep'em coming!

[Malamute]

Very good, really enjoying this and the three musketeers thread.

[Vanvlak]

Very nice additions. 
Hope the Sheriff and his save-the-animals troop protect them from Robin and his venison addicts.