Robin Hood Project: Buildings & Terrain

 My new project is a set of skirmish games based on Robin Hood.  Crooked Dice recently released a Robin Hood supplement for their 7TV rules and also has a line of miniatures for the personalities.  While I waited for them to arrive, I started brainstorming possible scenarios.  I also made a list of what I already had & what I would need.

First on my 'need' list were archery targets.  There are several Robin Hood stories which include an archery contest.  I found some on Etsy from Majestic Miniatures that looked right to me.  I had gotten part of my Stargate from them and was happy with the quality.  I also saw an item that would really add to the atmosphere of a town scenario, a Prisoner in Stocks.  This poor man is being unjustly punished by the Sheriff of Nottingham. The base and posts were one piece and the prisoner and stocks another.  It has some nice wood grain that I primed Black, then drybrushed Howard Hues Wood, HH Colonial Khaki, & Ral Partha Gray.

       

Archery Targets

They were having a Black Friday sale so I browsed Majestic's product list and found a Pig Sty.  The 3d-printed building came in three pieces: stone section, wooden crossbeam/post, & the roof.  Each of the three fence sections and four posts came in two halves.  Everything superglued together easily.  Then I based it on a piece of styrene and primed it black.  Painting the wood sections was the same as the stocks and the stones received two coats of gray.  The pigs are a separate piece and are painted as the English heritage breed Gloucester Old Spot.

I already have a few Saxon & Viking buildings and a large church that I could use, but wanted a couple of larger buildings for Nottingham.  During Sarissa's Black Friday sale I found some that I really liked and ordered them.  It has been a long time since I assembled any mdf buildings, but as with all the Sarissa products I've bought they assembled easily.

The Norman Manor House will be the Sheriff's headquarters.  I painted the outside with Vallejo Yellow Ochre, added patches of brown, then drybrushed with several coats of Army Painter Skeleton Bone.  The inside uses several old Polly S colors, British Dark Earth and Panzer Red-Brown, wbile the wood is AP Hardened Wood.  I still have a fair number of Polly S paints and am trying to use them up.

The Market Hall is painted simiilarly to the manor.  The hardest part was painting all the timber framing at the end.  I plan on having some market stalls around it

As soon as I saw this Gibbet I wanted it.  Who will be the Sheriff of Nottingham's next victim?  The wood is painted the same as the stocks, while the cage got a coat of Ral Partha Steel, a coat of Army Painter Gunmetal, and a black wash.

What is coming next in this project?  I already have 18 Merry Men about half painted, a dozen character miniatures primed, and some soldiers for the Sheriff are being assembled.  More updates to follow.

Stargate Project: The Stargate

 You can't have a Stargate game without a Stargate.  I have seen many versions over the years, including one where you can insert a cellphone to get the gate effect.  I ran across this one on eBay while buying a 3d-printed paint holder. The center is removable, but fits so tightly that I try to move it as little as possible to avoid scratching the paint.  I painted the event horizon with successively lighter shades of blue in smaller areas with some silver mixed in the center.

It didn't come with a DHD, the device used to activate the gate.  I bought this 3D-printed one on Etsy from Majestic Miniatures.  They also make some gate versions.  I think it would be fun to run a scenario with 2 boards and a stargate on each one so I may buy one from them in the future.

I have 2 versions of the MALP, the robotic vehicles used to perform recon and carry equipment.  The one on the left is a scratchbuilt version that I bought secondhand, repainted, and added a missile.  The tracks are metal and the rest is made of card.  The missile came with the right-hand version from Ainsty Castings which is made of resin.

Last are two firepits from Bad Goblin Games who have a variety of cool terrain accessories.  I am going to use them as temple fires in the Great Temple from my previous post.  They come with a small light and battery, though the lights are not on in these photos.  I gave the flames a red wash to tone down the orange.

A photo to show the scale.  Off to explore the universe!