Showing posts with label Medieval Scenery & Accessories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medieval Scenery & Accessories. Show all posts

Sunday, 19 November 2017

Robin Hood - Nottingham Castle

I apologise for the bad quality of the pictures and the lack of a proper background, but I only got to open this package late at night and couldn't resist putting it together with a couple figures for a few quick shots to judge the scale.

The model is the currently unavailable Barzso Nottingham Castle. It is a huge beast made out of lightweight hardfoam for 1/32 figures. While technically speaking underscale, the height of the doors is tall enough for the King and Country 1/30 (or closer to 1/28) figures, so it works well (and you're not likely to find a bigger castle with this kind of detail anywhere.

The castle is only about 90% assembled here, I haven't attached the chains for the working draw bridge and the piece of foam at the bottom right should go inside the castle gates as a floorpiece. Shown here with the mounted Sir Guy, the Sheriff of Nottingham and a man-at-arms for scale.




I'm still debating whether it worth it to repaint it at some point for an even better look. Not sure at this stage as it seems rather daunting to redo such a big model, so perhaps I will just pick out some details like doors and tiled roofs and leave the brickwork alone. I would like to build a base with a moat around it though, to do full justice to the drawbridge and interior. I have a roll of textured wallpaper that should work well for the inner courtyard.

Sunday, 22 October 2017

Robin Hood - The Jousting Tournament

While Robin's main intrest is the archery competition, it wouldn't be a proper tournament without a bout of jousting. So here we have the yellow and blue knight doing what knights do on these occasions. These were a bit of an impulse buy, as the set was on clear-out due to the models being retired. But they can be made to fit into this project without too much forcing and they are oh-so-lovely.

The Sheriff and Sir Guy watch the tournament with an appreciative eye...

You could poke out someone's eye with that thing!

Some close-ups of the knights and their gorgeous heraldry. First the yellow knight:



Followed by the blue knight, look at that barding:



The jousting barrier isn't bad either. Six different shields adorn the sides:



Robin Hood - Medieval Scenery and Accessories Overview

In this post I will gather in one place the different scenery elements, accessories and wild and domestic animals that are spread out over the blog.

1. Sherwood Forest Wildlife

The (other) fox of Sherwood:
Source: Lemax (repaint)
The King's deer:
Source: Lemax (repaint)

Source: Lemax (repaint)
 The Kings rabbits:
Source: Lemax (repaint)
 Squirrel life:
Source: Lemax (repaint)
 2. Tournament Accessories

The jousting barrier:
Source: King and Country

Saturday, 21 October 2017

Robin Hood - Woodland Animals (part 2)

I had a few more woodland animals to finish from those Lemax sets I showed earlier. A set of wild rabbits for the Merry Men to hunt and a couple squirrels (which I suppose could also go in a forest stew at a pinch). Nothing too exciting, but a nice bit of background scenery to add to a board or setup. These aren't my best paintjobs by far, but then they were pretty rough casts and not very inspiring to work on. I think they look the part though.

The rabbit stew, au naturel:

Did you hear something?

Err... what's up, Doc?
 And the squirrels. They may be slightly big for the scale, practically the size of the rabbits, but I'm sure it will work out fine.
Aww... nuts!

My God, giant squirrels!


Sunday, 10 September 2017

Robin Hood - Woodland animals (part 1)

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...