From IanW - 6mm Zulu's and Project Finished!! (40 Points)

Well one of the aims of the Challenge is to get us to finish long overdue projects and this one really fits the bill. Back when I was unable to work I took to painting up mates figures for them just to give me figures to paint. They tended to give me two figures for every figure I painted for them or so. Well given that I have now been working for just under two years you could say this was a tad late Matt has been a real gent and been really good about my lack of push on these.

So as part of my to do list for 2015 was to get these finished before the end of February, well a big bad tick in that box.

These are the rifle armed Zulu's and by far easier to paint up than the shield toting ones from last weeks post.

Again I went with four different coloured loin cloths and give the finished figure a brush over with Windsor & Newton Chestnut Brown ink with adds a good skin tone and depth.

Here is all the Zulu's painted during this years Challenge and the few I did just before the Challenge started. A total of 96 figures at 0.5 points each so base value of 48 points but Matt is basing all of them including the ones from way back so knocking 20% off 38.4 points for Curt to round up or down.

Given that this will leave my original points in the rear view I will push for 2000 points which would be better than last years total if I remember correctly.


From Curt:

Ah, brilliant! Congratulations on getting this project behind you Ian - well done. That is an impressive mob of Zulus and you've really done a great job on painting these tiny castings. I'm going to have to get myself a bottle of that W&N ink as it really did a wonderful job on their skin tone. Great tip, thanks.

Just for the record you made it to 1153 in the 4th Challenge, so 2000 is a great target for this year. It has been duly registered and scribed. 

Now, back to your painting bench Mr. W. there's not a moment to loose!