Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Some Zulus

A while back I bought a whole pile of Black Tree Designs Zulu Wars figures while they were having a sale. I then decided that I was never going to get around to painting them all and sold them to Brian down south. He has since painted them all up and ordered more!
I did keep a dozen figures each of Zulus, British and Boers though, with the idea that these might be the basis for companies for In Her Majesty's Name.  As I sold the other IHMN companies to Geoff in the South Island, I thought I'd paint up the rest of these figures and offer them to him as well. So here are the first lot - the Zulus.

Zulu characters.
Four Zulu Warriors
And another four warriors, two with firearms.
The fact that these guys took me so long to do and don't look any better than Brian's efforts helps me realise that I made the correct decision not to pursue a large scale Zulu Wars project. Painting 120+ Zulus would have driven me insane(r)!

Nate
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  1. Paul W14 October 2014 at 20:41

    Very nice work, they're really eye-catching even with such a limited colour palette. Good call not to paint 120 though! Reminds me of the movie... "Zulus sir, thousands of them!" :-)

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    1. Natholeon15 October 2014 at 13:43

      Thanks Paul. I'm pretty sure I felt just as daunted as the men of the 24th at the thought of painting them all.

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  2. Rodger14 October 2014 at 21:38

    They look great Nate.

    Geoff, you need these!!!

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    1. Natholeon15 October 2014 at 13:44

      Thanks Rodger. I think Geoff is of the same opinion!

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  3. Phil14 October 2014 at 21:40

    Splendid! A great set of characters...

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  4. Jonathan Freitag15 October 2014 at 00:54

    Your Zulus look great! With these 12 finished you would have been 1/10 of the way through 120. You could have persevered.

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    1. Natholeon15 October 2014 at 13:47

      Thanks Jonathan. A very rational way of looking at it, but I didn't enjoy painting them enough to want to pursue it.

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  5. The Lord of Excess15 October 2014 at 01:41

    Really nice work!

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  6. legatus hedlius15 October 2014 at 02:28

    Excellent skin tones on these!

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    1. Natholeon15 October 2014 at 13:50

      Thanks Legatus. I think they were Vallejo flat brown washed in Army Painter dark tone ink and then highlighted with a mix of Vallejo flat brown and army painter leather brown... or something. I should really write this stuff down.

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  7. Natholeon15 October 2014 at 13:44

    Thanks Al.

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  8. Barks15 October 2014 at 23:58

    Cracking stuff!

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  9. Simon Quinton 16 October 2014 at 09:37

    Nice skintones! great job on them all!

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  10. Scottswargaming16 October 2014 at 11:32

    Nice stuff. You just reminded me I have some to dig out of the plasticpile to sell...

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