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Re: Robin Hood
« Reply #10 on: May 21, 2008, 15:50:32 »
Nice Customs!

I think you need to take the picures from a little further away - see how Allan is blurred but the tree behind him is in perfect focus?

I like the guards - those studded leather jerkins look much better than most of the modern knight figures, though I see one modern guy sneaked in at the left back row.

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Re: Robin Hood
« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2008, 16:13:26 »
I agree, nice customs but from the books I had as a youngster, I'd have said Robin Hood should be Little John as I'm sure Robin was clean-shaven.
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Re: Robin Hood
« Reply #12 on: May 21, 2008, 18:30:39 »


Robin Hood?

Clean shaven?



I agree, nice customs but from the books I had as a youngster, I'd have said Robin Hood should be Little John as I'm sure Robin was clean-shaven.
















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Re: Robin Hood
« Reply #13 on: May 21, 2008, 18:32:38 »


Like your customs, Seawarrior ...  :)9

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Re: Robin Hood
« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2008, 18:45:19 »
You're right, Richard, but note he has only a small beard; the full beard is much more Little John.
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Re: Robin Hood
« Reply #15 on: May 21, 2008, 18:52:32 »


Hello, Gordon ...



You're right, Richard, but note he has only a small beard; the full beard is much more Little John.



You are absolutely correct! The "full beard" seems to have come after he grew older (Note: Sean Connery) ... ;)

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Re: Robin Hood
« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2008, 19:45:47 »
And Sea is basing his characters on the most recent BBC series, in which Robin



sports some facial fluff.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/robinhood/characters/robin.shtml

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Re: Robin Hood
« Reply #17 on: May 22, 2008, 05:21:23 »
Nice customs.  But yeah please retake the blurry ones.  "Jack" isn't see-able.

Trivia:
Robin Hood died at the hands of a nun.  He was feeling ill and went into town for a bleeding.  The nun was in the service of one of Robin's enemies and bled him to death.  Little John and Robin figure out what is happening too late.  Robin has enough strength left to fire an arrow with the instructions to Little John to bury him where it lands.

It's a weird ending for a hero, but the source is classical (not modern), dating from the Robin Hood poems from the 1500s or so.

Attempts to trace Robin to an actual historical figure are sketchy.  "Robin Hood" was a medievalism meaning "bandit", like "Johnny Gangster" or "Johnny Six-Shooter". 

Or it could have been that an actual Robin Hood inspired "Robin Hood" to become an expression for bandits.  But, I'm guessing there was no actual Robin Hood.  "Robin" was an everyman name (like "Johnny") and "Hood" was common peasant clothes.   

Likewise, "Merry Men" was an expression for hoodlums or bandits--equivalent to "Johnny Six-Shooter and His Laughing Boys".


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Re: Robin Hood
« Reply #18 on: May 22, 2008, 07:04:48 »
Likewise, "Merry Men" was an expression for hoodlums or bandits--equivalent to "Johnny Six-Shooter and His Laughing Boys".

I love dearly the original set of Merry Men, by Playmobil ... It's very nice (maybe my second favourite!), and the right spirit of the ... legendary thing! ('Was goint to say the actual thing.) :blackhair:



Nice customs.  But yeah please retake the blurry ones.  "Jack" isn't see-able.

Hi, Sw!
Thanks for sharing them!

Martin gave a wonderful tutorial on pictures! ... My guys came out a bit blurry too, I'll have to see what I can do, before getting a better camera, which is something I'll HAVE to, soon. (My camera can't focus in close range.)

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Re: Robin Hood
« Reply #19 on: May 22, 2008, 14:02:19 »




Trivia:
"Robin Hood" was a medievalism meaning "bandit", like "Johnny Gangster" or "Johnny Six-Shooter". 

"Robin" was an everyman name (like "Johnny") and "Hood" was common peasant clothes.   

Likewise, "Merry Men" was an expression for hoodlums or bandits--equivalent to "Johnny Six-Shooter and His Laughing Boys".



Years from now ...
Some etymologist (or future philologist) will no doubt be questioning the origin of "Timmy the Grinch" ... :lol: