Saturday 7 April 2012

Zulus (HaT)

"The sentries report Zulus to the south west. ...eight of them".
Well, There´s only the 8 poses in the set as seen here 
Not historically accurate..but then again they are meant to come from a Jungle type area in Khandibar and aren´t really Zulu´s at all  and I liked the idea of a B/W colour scheme on the shields. Zebra skins...with wide stripes..that´s it!!..widestriped Jungle Zebras. Common in Khandibar.
Part of a swop with Peter from Peter´s cave Blog..............he´s been lazy and not yet painted his part of the swop :-D

13 comments:

  1. I´d say the shields are Okapi hide. Very popular in Khandibar in the 19th century. That´s why the beasts became nearly extinct (Prof Dr Mallebrootje African Shield Coverings And Other Oddities Of Ye Darke Continent).

    They look great, as usual!

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    1. LoL..I like it..:-D Was that in the original or the abridged addition? My copy reckons that the Okapi had stripes 3.7mm´s smaller (the white ones) than those on the shields I´ve painted.
      Cheers
      paul

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  2. Nice figs!! - I take my HaT off to you!

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  3. These are nice figures and the skin tones look good.

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  4. Oooooh! He said I'm lazy!!!!! That's isn't true! I've painted one :-D

    They look good Paul!

    Greetings
    Peter
    http://peterscave.blogspot.com/

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  5. well paul at least your not going to have to worry about being overrun by them. Good job, and expect to see my terrorists done soon

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  6. Beautiful Zulus!!
    excellent choice of colours!
    The brown skin is perfect!
    wow!

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  7. A cool set this is, and as usual you did a great job on the little bods!

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  8. Cracking bunch of angry young men. Great skin tone.

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