Robin Hood: The Black Canuns

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

Robin Hood - Sheriff of Nottingham's Faction Overview

In this post I will try to keep a complete list of the figures in the Sheriff of Nottingham's faction for the Robin Hood setting. It will be updated with new pictures as and when I add to the collection.

They look dashing, but they're still the baddies...

1. The High Sheriff of Nottingham

Source: King and Country 

2. Guy of Gisbourne

For Guy of Gisbourne, there will be two models (mounted and unmounted).

Source: King and Country 

Source: King and Country 

3. The Bishop of Nottingham

His Fatty Holiness with his illgotten gold.

Source: King and Country

4. The Tax collector

5. The Tax collector's Guardsman

6. The Sheriff's Men-at-arms

Source: King and Country 

Source: King and Country 

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Source: King and Country 

Source: King and Country 

7. The Bishops black canuns

Source: Lemax (conversion & repaint)

Robin Hood - The Merry Men Faction Overview

In this post I will try to keep a complete list of the figures in the Merry Men faction for the Robin Hood setting. It will be updated with new pictures as and when I add to the collection.

Robin Hood and his Merry Men, doing what Merry Men do in the Hood.

1. Robin Hood, aka Robin of Locksley
For Robin there are two models so far:

Classic Robin Hood with bow

Source: King and Country

Classic Robin Hood with sword

Source: King and Country

2. Maid Marion

Source: King and Country

3. Little John

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4. Friar Tuck

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5. Will Scarlett

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6. Alan-a-Dale

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7. Will Stutely

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8. Arthur A Bland

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9. Mutch, the miller's son

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Robin Hood - Swashbuckling Session Project

While I've blogged about the Three Musketeers collection first, it is really the King & Country Robin Hood range that drew me into collecting the larger scale models, as some of the more central characters are modeled after the 1938 "The Adventures of Robin Hood" with Errol Flynn (still the definitive Robin Hood movie in my opinion).

The collection so far, all models by King & Country

Robin and Maid Marion, for instance look like they walked straight from the screen (or close enough)

"You're just a ruffian!" - "You know nothing, Marion!

And while not all of the baddies are based on that famous movie, this duel scene between Robin and Sir Guy of Gisborne (portrayed by Basil Rathbone) definitely is:

So, just to get this straight, is this a fight to the death?

As are the mounted version of Sir Guy and the clothing of the Bishop of Nottingham:

Conspirators assembled...

Bad Boys wear Yellow!