From MartinC - The 5:15 from Bulawayo (120 Points)

Bing Bong. "The train arriving on platforms 2, 3, 4 and 5 is coming in sideways." Sorry but it is one of my favourite jokes.

I'm still feeling under the weather and taking afternoon naps (the medicinal benefits of a box of After 8 Mints is yet to be proved), so I'm a little behind where I would like to be. That and Zulus are boring to paint.

These are the uKhandempemvu regiment, and were painted, like the other regiments because of their interesting grey shields and not because of  historical accuracy.

The warriors are undercoated in black car primer spray, painted with Foundry African Flesh and then eyes, mouths and muscle tone filled in with African Flesh Shade. Head bands, loin cloths and leopard tails are Foundry buff leather, semi dry brushed, or I use black or Vallejo Mahogany Brown for different tails. Feathers are semi dry brushed with white or red and spears and arm bands are Foundry metal. Shields are painted to a higher standard as they are the interesting part of the figures

The bases are card (old ring binders are fab source for this) the figures are fixed in place with hot melt glue. The elephant grass is coya and is fixed in place with hot melt at the same as the figures. This is mainly around the edge but also it fill in gaps between figures.

Only 72 figures left to paint then these are done. I may paint something else next for a change.

Even after an 'After Eight' hangover the Zulu juggernaught keeps rolling on with this striking grey-shielded regiment. Once again, great work Martin. Thanks for providing your recipe on how you're doing up these units. Your approach of concentrating on the shields while keeping the figures themselves relatively simple has really paid off.  You're creating a very fine force here.

120 points to add to your impressive total - well done!