"Do you remember: Airfix Robin Hood & Castle?" Topic

Discovered this little beauty from yesteryear on the fabulous The Airfix Tribute Forum and thought that it would be of interest to a wider audience.

With much respect to Ratch at The Airfix Tribute Forum who is producing some amazing work.

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I have the Robin Hood castle , it's a lovely piece.

Good memories. I still have that much played with set in a box around here somewhere. Used the figures for my first foray in to miniature wargaming.

Anybody got a pic of the Airfix Foreign Legion fort?

I was fortunate enough to have all the Airfix box sets.

Great times and memories.

The Robin Hood figures were among my first.
I did a ton of conversions on the Merry Men set. Perhaps the oddest were taking the bodies, putting Roman heads on them, giving them Stroh's beer tab shields and pushing pins through the hands. Peltasts!
They fought as well as metal.

Yes, I remember building the castle, mounting it on a square of polystyrene (which I had sculpted with a blowtorch) and thinking it was the dogs wotsits….

Thanks for the memories.

Tony

Ah yes! – I remember them well and had many happy hours as a child playing with them!

Thanks for the reminder!

Brilliant stuff!

Oddly enough, I don't think I ever painted the Robin Hood set as Robin Hood etc. They got plasticene turbans, hardened with banana oil, and became my first Mahdists.

Yea, I have the FFL Fort, still use it for TSATF games in North Africa. The Robin hood set appears on ebay from time to time

There was a great article in Airfix Magazine in the late 60' or early 70' showing how to use a few sets of the castle to make a really large version.

Although I sold the figures several years ago, I still have the castle, as well as the Roman fort and La Haye Sainte building. All of them are very nice pieces.

Jim

Among the very first figures I painted, and STILL holding
their paint !

Converted some just as the OFM did, into lance-armed
mounted knights and some to mounted archers.

Great days, those were…

Yes, sadly missed after an unfortunate big footed relative blundered into a garage floor game many years ago. Wish the Roam fort was still readily available.

I had one a few years back. Never opened it and sold it off. As a kid I used a shoe box with the lid flipped over as my castle. I've allways prefered the green RH figures over the cream colored ones.

I still have my Robin Hood castle and my Roman Fort around here someplace. Do wish I'd gotten Foreign Legion fort. I enjoyed the two I had when I was younger, and used them in wargames with my son years later.

I never thought of painting the castle--that looks great!

Grelber

Nice reminder. Never painted mine, it remained grey. Seem to remember the ends clipped together then the towers slid down on the wall edges to keep them firm. Did it have an original drawbridge?

Had them both, along with a lot of the others. Excellent play value.

That's right HJ. The drawbridge was a bit tokenistic though.

I have that exact same kit awaiting painting and assembly. Looking forward to genning up a simple set of rules so my grandson and I can play Robin Hood.

Recently saw a castle for sale on a local auction site. Went for about $30 USD I think. Had a Foreign Legion fort in my youth but sold before moving to NZ.

LOL…I too still have the Roman fort/figs and La Haye Sainte (painted, based w/gardens/orchard etc!

Captain D Ewell, that's a very atmospheric picture of the FFL fort, with the steadily encroaching sand dunes behind….
I need to know why it is (apparently) abandoned, who these tourists with the camper wagon are, and what did they find lurking inside?
Do tell us the (obviously spooky) story, please…

Unfortunately, I can add little more. I thought that it may have been Scooby-Doo and his gang. Maybe TheMartinGE can shed some more light upon it.

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Thanks.

How could anyone forget the Airfix Robin hood collection???

surely an impossibility!

Darrell.

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Wow. I used to have all those sets, including the Roman fort I used so much.

Dan

I used to love Airfix, Had the fort but not the castle.

I did though have a huge interest in WWI and had a massive trench system when I was 12 (in 1969) Mom used to go ballistic at the mess I made. I had so many figures I had a marching column of Germans and Brits…happy days.

"Why do you need ANOTHER Box of soldiers haven't you got enough?" I was a gamer then without knowing it.

I have all the Airfix forts/castles in the loft and use the Fort Sahara for the Peter Pig 'Sudan' rules

I seem to recall a series of articles somewhere (I assume it was Airfix Magazine) where the author chopped up a number of "thatched cottages" from the Airfix railside range, to make internal buildings for the castle including an open-fronted forge/smithy.