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

[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...

[papa 695]

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.

British soldiers dirty never Ron. They would be bulling there boots in between skirmishes

[Guest]

Great progress here.

I love how this is coming out.

Francesco

Edit: one question, I suppose figure are in soft plastique, are you using any primer or special technique to prepare them for painting?

[spanner570]

Thanks Francesco, I just give the figures a good clean with soapy water to remove the release agent then I paint them - no primer.

O.k. folks, here's progress so far...I'm doing a little painting now and again to retain my sanity.

Here's where I'm up to. The soldier's trousers and tunics are painted ready for some detailing......The bases will be removed once the painting is complete.

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Cheers,

Ron

[Guest]

Wow Ron!! There are many people there

[Guest]

I've just done 5 panzer crewmen in 1/72 & my eyes hurt! Lord knows how you managed that horde Ron!