Robin Hood - Photos of "Sherwood Forest" in training, page 5

[FifteensAway]

And a wee bit more.  Already listed some of the mounted civilians in posts above but there are four additional mounted females: Yvonne, Sulena, Celine, and Leontina.  Also, the one listed as Torie should be Toric.  For my own benefit, I really need to make 'box' lists for what goes in each of the now eight containers of figures.  Perhaps I will work on that as I put all of the figures into color coordinated boxes - that will help when hunting for items to run a game.

[FifteensAway]

I finally pulled out my old JR Miniatures castle with some additional components that was going to be a 'much bigger' castle but I've decided to reduce it some. 

Here are some images:



An overall view of the components.  No idea where the keep came from, long forgotten if I ever knew.  Same with the white pieces I cut to fit the larger castle but find they work for this arrangement, too.  Might make some minor tweaks.



Just a view from a different angle.

And two closer views of the keep from different angles:





And last image, some additional components which I think I will use to build wing walls out to either side of the castle to 'sort of' enclose the town nearby - will need it to be removable if I don't want to use them.  Idea might not work if I include a moat around the castle which is pretty likely.



Does anyone know of any company that makes Hoardings designed to work with the 15 mm JR Miniature castles?  Or something readily adaptable?  I think it would be cool to include at least some hoardings.  Thanks to anyone who knows of anything? 

[Tom Dulski]

 Those castle pieces are impressive, looking forward to seeing the final product.

[FifteensAway]

Going to spend some time thinking about how I want to base the castle to include a moat.  I will probably use a product from Chooch Enterprises (now owned by Walthers - a model railroad supply company) similar to this:



Maybe not that specifically.  These come in about a 4" x 12" highly flexible foam-like form.  The biggest challenge I foresee is the edging.  I figure to have both sides of the moat lined with this but not the bottom of the moat.  Probably make the moat pretty shallow in reality and let whatever water effect I use represent the depth of the moat.

And I figure it will take three full turns to cross the moat leaving any figures in the process highly vulnerable to the castle garrison - as they should be.

[Basementboy]

Castle looks beautiful so far- love the ruling on the moat too.

[FifteensAway]

Just a photo of eighteen plus one trees which will be the principal trees of my Sherwood Forest (or maybe Sliverwood Forest?).  The eighteen are from JTT, 4-5" Dark, Waterside, and Sunkissed, 6 each.  After pulling these out of their packaging the first thing was to spray them with a flat sealer to reduce loss of greenery over time - and experience says may need a bit more than that, perhaps a spray on adhesive.  The plus one tree is from a model railroad shop I bought for super cheap that will be the druidic center when I want to add that in or maybe sometimes the "ancient oak".  So, the forest "in training".  I do have a bunch of additional deciduous trees, mostly smaller, to round out the forest or make it bigger.  Just these shown here will get some special attention when getting based.