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

[monica]

great start Ron always enjoy your work, and you will nutt out a fix for the little mishaps

ok lads move along got room for one more, hope you dont mind but i smoke,o_O

oh my painting 4000 little zulu wish you luch on that one whats day do you get for visitor,after that,

[flyjoe180]

Great start Ron, that building looks awesome. As for painting all those figures in 1/72, good luck mate.

[stona]

What a subject Ron, and a good start, despite the false start.

My image of the skirmish at Rorke's Drift has been irredeemably tainted by the 1964 film and Michael Caine trying to be posh , so I'll be interested to see what you make of this. It's still a great film though. It used to be a Christmas favourite when you could easily count the number of available television channels on one hand, unless I'm mistaken.

Cheers

Steve

[spanner570]

What a subject Ron, and a good start, despite the false start.My image of the skirmish at Rorke's Drift has been irredeemably tainted by the 1964 film and Michael Caine trying to be posh , so I'll be interested to see what you make of this. It's still a great film though. It used to be a Christmas favourite when you could easily count the number of available television channels on one hand, unless I'm mistaken.

Cheers

Steve

Cheers Steve....I seem to remember The Great Escape and Ben Hur were also on the bill!!!

[Alan 45]

One of my favourite films is Zulu and I see your up your usual high standard of work Ron

Great start

[john i am]

Ron the architect off on one of is inspiring dios nice to see you in action again. I love your threads as it gives us some great ideas on how to build things out of materials we wouldn't normally think of using of which you achieve some awesome results so Ron I will be watching all the way picking at all your tricks and tips keep up the great work cheers John

[stona]

Ben Hur! I saw it at an outdoor cinema in Enugu (Nigeria) as a kid. They showed the reels in the wrong order so Charlton Heston mysteriously went from rowing a galley to being a prosperous merchant (or whatever he was) about half way through. None of us kids had a clue what was going on, neither did we care. We were only there for the action.

Cheers

Steve

[spanner570]

After the balls up with the building, I put it to one side for fear of obliterating the thing once and for all!

So I turned to the kraal. It's made from scrap polystyrene with the stones engraved into the surface using my modelling knife. The top I made uneven by digging into it with my finger nails, then a light first wash applied. I decided to break up the stonework on the inside with a smooth look. This I will rough up later to give the impression of clay being used for the finish.

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I returned to the stores, corrected the roof, and put my thoughts to the covering. This was thatched. How to do this part?

I had initially thought of a polyfilla slurry and use a wire brush to creat the reed look, but I could see that cracking with any movement.

I then had a eurica moment...garden twine! This I partly unravelled and stuck it onto thick card.

Here is the start of the thatch.

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Cheers all....

[Alan 45]

Looking good Ron thanks for the tip on the thatch I was thinking how I could do it

[eddiesolo]

Nice recovery Ron, I like to think that maybe the original building looked like your first effort and they adapted it to suit...

Upto your high standards...as if it would be anything else.

"I'll leave you playing with your mud pies...chin, chin."

Si

[Guest]

Looking very good Ron!

Genial idea thanks for share it

[monica]

nice to see you got out off a stop, and looking good at that,

real like the use of twine for the roof,i had save the hair of of corn for that same reason

too good to go in the bin

look good ever with only your 1st wash on it,nice to see a master back at his bench

just get a coffee and smoke brb,

[geegad]

well i will be following this its got to be one if not the greatest films made...loving your work with them pizza bases again i managed to get me some and sorry to say i was thinking of you when i seen them..so crack on and get some more pics

[spanner570]

Thanks folks, we managed to salvage summat from the wreck didn't we?!

O.k., I've just spent a very pleasant afternoon with the sun on me back, thatching the stores roof....Life can be hell..

I cut the string to length, then untwisted it a bit and butting each strand up to the next worked along the card roof with quick drying, all purps. clear glue. Reasonably straight forward, but boring as hell! Me back's nice and brown mind......

Here's the finished roof. I might have a fiddle with it later, we'll see. Go easy, it's my first go at it!

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You can just make out the small infill pieces of wall, these will blend in with subsequent coats of paint. I'm not bothered about the slightly different stonework, 'cos as Si commented, it looks like a modification......and I think it adds a bit of variation to the building.

That's the build up to the present, so next I will add the doors, windows, posts and shutters etc. Now I have the two structures I can also make a start on the ground work.

Thanks again for all your positive comments,

Ron

[Ian M]

This is going to be another Ron Classic I feel.

Great watching this come together.

Ian M