"Calder Craft Robin Hood and..." Topic
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BillyNM  | 06 Mar 2025 5:08 a.m. PST |
…Little John slug it out watched by Marian.
A quick paint trial to try and match that glossy old school style that always suited these Hinchliffe / Calder Craft figures. link |
| Perris0707 | 06 Mar 2025 11:28 a.m. PST |
Beautifully done! The old-style figures will always have a certain charm to them. |
| BillyNM | 06 Mar 2025 3:35 p.m. PST |
I think the charm is only for those that remember when these were the best that were around. |
 20thmaine | 06 Mar 2025 3:42 p.m. PST |
Like them – look good enough to play with! |
| BillyNM | 07 Mar 2025 12:39 a.m. PST |
They will get played with when I've painted more and got some suitable rules; do you know of any? |
| 20thmaine | 07 Mar 2025 2:56 a.m. PST |
It would seem only right and proper to at least try the Calder Craft Robin Hood rules! There's at least one copy online: link |
| BillyNM | 07 Mar 2025 3:03 p.m. PST |
@20thmaine – thanks for that, I shall certainly take a good look at them. |
| 20thmaine | 08 Mar 2025 7:03 a.m. PST |
Another set that would work quite well are the GW LOTR Skirmish game rules – just leave out the monsters and the magic, all the human troop types have an equivalent in the game. Even most of the heroes – Robin would map quite well onto Aragorn the Ranger, others could have generic leader statistics. |
| Gray Bear | 09 Mar 2025 9:56 p.m. PST |
You did a great job painting the figures. I still have a number of Hinchliffe peasants of various types I painted years ago. |
| BillyNM | 09 Mar 2025 11:30 p.m. PST |
@Gray Bear, thanks but I did quite a bit of repainting as I was initially too timid with my shading, the old school style requires you to be quite bold both in terms of tone contrast and brush strokes. I've still got some room for improvement. |
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looks at some new terrain products, which use space age technology!