"Airfix reissue Robin Hood, Sheriff of Nottingham" Topic

Romans and Britons figure sets

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And only £5.99 GBP per box !

Happy days.

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Just need the mile castle and Nottingham castle to go with them.

I had those and Romans as a kid. Sold them to a collector via TMP.

Fond memories with those sets

Nice.

Awesome. I still have my sets from the 1970s somewhere in storage. Some miniatures from my Robin Hood and Sheriff of Nottingham appeared in Dungeons & Dragons games, and I painted one of Robin Hood's archers as a ninja for a Bushido game back then. Good times.

Ah, yes! The good old days of my youth. Thanks for taking me back.

It would be great if they wee made from hard plastic.

The two robin hood packs are excellent and stand up to modern standards and scrutiny. Well done Airfix.

martin

Agreed, and there are some very nice figures in the Britons set as well.

When I was a kid, the 1/72 sets by various manufacturers piqued my interest in what would eventually be my miniatures hobby. I couldn't afford them back then (even though they were dirt cheap, they were beyond my means) so I just looked at them lovingly in the store. Later I got a big bag of mixed stuff at a garage sale- some US, a lot of German, and some British 8th Army desert.

I eventually got my dad to buy me a box of 1/72 NATO air base guards with their berets and G3 rifles. I don't know why but they always looked cool to me. Fun memories and you got a lot of minis in the box.

If they end up coming stateside, I might have to pick these new sets up!

They have both Robin Hood and Roman sets complete with forts on pre order,

Tally Ho!

Wow, there's a blast from the past! I think those were the sets I started with. Next came the little A5 hardbacks with proper rules!: ACW, then Napoleonics, and finally WW2 via "Operation Warboard" and Bruce Quarrie's Airfix guide.

IIRC the Airfix Ancients guide (Phil Barker?) didn't have any rules in it and thus contributed to me catching the bug for other periods.

We go on about the likes of GW and Flames of War marketing these days, but in many ways Airfix was doing much the same in the 70s with its figures, models, guides and battle sets – the whole package to get you started and all from one manufacturer.

Not sure that means anything, but just a reflection.

Robin Hood set is one of the best sets for figure conversions for both ancients and medieval. The simple tunic fits many periods. I've done Roman Auxillary, Norman spearmen, Crusades pilgrims amdong others.

I recall that the Bob O'Brian (?) series in Airfix magazine came to somewhat the same conclusion as men in loose tunics became the pikemen, spear throwers, slingers and light infantry of a dozen or more nations.