discussion ZULU! The Store House...Rorke's Drift...January 1879

[colin m]

Thanks Colin, I know they set fire to the Hospital building, but I can't remember if they did the same to the stores. I don't think they did.I'm hoping to model the last ditch defence, after the hospital was over run and the soldiers retreated behind the hastily erected biscuit box wall.......

Ron

Well it's nice to be wrong. At least it was just the hospital they set fire to. I bet Matron was well annoyed.

 

[Guest]

This has progressed a lot since I last looked in can't believe how fast its going, looking awesome as always Ron.

 

[Guest]

Just catching up on this again Ron ,as usual you're up to your high standards and its looking great! 800 lbs for that many figures sounds like a deal what are you waiting for?

 

[yak face]

Eyup mucker , that collapsing grass bank is unbelievably realistic , i dont know how ye do it. i suspect witchcraft! , cheers tony

 

[Guest]

Ron this is looking great I shall look forward to seeing the finished build.

 

[spanner570]

Thanks everyone,

As the weather is so nice, I've done precious little bench work.

I've made a gate and some fence posts - I figured there must have been some sort of fence to guide the cattle into the kraal. Anyway its there now!

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Here is the one 1/72, B Coy., 2nd Battalion 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Reg. of Foot defender I've finished.......Contrary to the film, it was an English, not Welsh Battalion, and at the time of the battle there were only 15 Welshmen in the ranks...Still a determined bunch of blokes wherever they came from.

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Only another 130 odd to do!!!!!!

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Should keep me happy......or suicidal.

Cheers,

Ron

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[Guest]

This really is looking great Ron, so much to look at, you just have to keep looking at it, so much to see, I love dio`s like this, looking forward to seeing more

 

[stona]

I think the confusion is because the 24th Foot became the South Wales Borderers a couple of years later.

Just think, when you've finished the 150 red coats you'll only have 3,000 Zulus to do

Cheers

Steve

 

[Alan 45]

Looking good Ron , I don't envy you with those figures

 

[Guest]

At least the Zulu warriors didn't wear much clothing!

 

[yak face]

Holy crap thats a shedload of soldiers youve got to paint mate!! and in 1/72 , I dont envy you ! cheers tony

 

[bazers]

Looks great ron i cant add anything more to what has been said the roofs just brill ( you dont smoke do you !).

 

[john i am]

You are doing great Ron I envy your patience doing all those tiny figures I got to 50 of them in my ww1 dio and have had to take a break from it all arghhhhh. So hats of to you keep the pic coming cheers John

 

[monica]

looking great Ron, real liking this one ,well done so far,

nice red coat,,he,s turned out well, wish you luck with the others dont know any way to speed up the painting of them, to help,

 

[spanner570]

wish you luck with the others dont know any way to speed up the painting of them, to help,

Thanks Monica, p.m. me your address, then I'll send half to you. When you have painted them send them back to me!

Job sorted!!!!

Thanks to for the other encouraging posts boys...I'll need all I can get before this build is completed!

Ron

 

[monica]

oh lol,then ever one can come visit ever other sunday,

 

[Guest]

This is looking great, I love it.

 

[Guest]

Just a quick point Ron for even more accuracy a lot of the soldiers stained their white helmets using the water from making their tea so they were varying shades of light brown, the white helmets were to good a marker for aiming at.

 

[spanner570]

Just a quick point Ron for even more accuracy a lot of the soldiers stained their white helmets using the water from making their tea so they were varying shades of light brown, the white helmets were to good a marker for aiming at.

Cheers Steve, I'm going to do just that, and, when I've painted all the figures, give the uniforms a good dose of weathering - i.e. dust, as I would think after a hard day's battling that's just how they would have been....What say you?

Thanks for the timely reminder and nice comments, I appreciate your input.

 

[flyjoe180]

Nice work Ron. Oh man, all those figures...