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.

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 

Source: King and Country 

Source: King and Country 

Source: King and Country 

7. The Bishops black canuns

Source: Lemax (conversion & repaint)