From IanW - 'Zulu Spawn' 6mm Zulu's (120 Points)

I have had these Zulu's in the paint queue for well over a year. In total I will now have painted 480 of the little bleeders and whilst the figures themselves are concerned they are fairly easy. The shields well that's a different matter all together. Indeed I wish I had the skill to do a better job but I simply do not.

Here we have seven Regiments of 36 figures and an extra 12 figures spare making a grand total of 264 figures in this batch. I still have the rifle armed figures to do but these are much easier and will be painted up in the next week or two.

The seven regiments are, Frost, Mongrels, Starters From The Umgoni River, The Howling, Forceful, Black Mamba and Savage (not shown in order, sorry).

I have used Farnsworth for shield details so they are reasonably accurate. However it's the laces that have proved the greatest difficulty. I have added eight to each shield. Any more and it seems to cluttered and any less and it's plain wrong.

As you can see from the shield shots I have had mixed results on getting the laces to line up. But at last they are finished and can be passed back to Matt for him to base up.

Each stick has 12 figures on them. Each base of four has four different poses so when based up you get a very nice dynamic look. Baccus have indeed done a great job at making these figures look the part.

I painted up four different coloured loin cloths and mixed them between the figures for more variation. Last off a wash in chestnut brown ink that really adds to the skin tone. I am REALLY happy to be putting these behind me and giving them back as I have felt really bad abut not getting them done but now I really can paint what I want when I want well almost.

So 264 x 0.5 points is 132 less 20% for not basing comes to 115.6 points, maybe I get half a pint for those ****ing shields?

Oh for those who think painting 6mm is an easy pints ride I have spent far more time on these and the Nap's per point than I get from an average 28 but I love painting the wee chappies. Oh also is it too late to get into this side challenge action for 10mm and smaller ;-) LOL


From Curt:

This post was precisely the reason you weren't invited to that side challenge Ian! ;p

Great work Mr. Willey - I'm sure your friend Matt will be delighted to have these ferocious little blighters in his collection.  I can't give you 'a half pint' for the shields (I'm fairly sure it wouldn't make it through the Post)  but I will give you a few extra points for your efforts.  :)

Your new points spread against Tamsin will give her a bit more of a challenge to overcome this weekend (though I'm sure she has something suitably impressive planned).