From MartinC - Horns of the Bull Buffalo (155 Points)

I've finished the Zulu army. It seems to have taken all my life and not the 11 actual days it took. The final figures are a bit of a random selection and a final pass through the remaining figures resulted in me binning 20 as they were too poor.

1st up are the isiBabule regiment with pure white shields.

There are only 16 of these, not the usual 24 and they include 4 in captured redcoats.
Next up are a unit of 10 Zulus armed with captured rifles

Finally the command figures

These include Michael's prize if he manages to paint 38 Zulus 

I promised a group shot but it's right on the limits of my phone (the panorama function nearly melted)  and so is large and tiny at the same time. I tried a video but I couldn't fit them all in in less than 100Mb. For scale this is the short edge of my 6ft by 4ft gaming board

Overall I have 7 regiments (1 was painted before the challenge), a slack handful of rifle men and a command group. I'm glad I've finished them as they have been stalking my lead mountain for 2 years since I bought them very badly painted from ebay for £35. After getting over the shock of the poor quality, cleaning them, rebasing them and generally not melting them down into a door stop I'm glad they are done. They are not my best work, it appears that I have to be inspired to do my best work, but they will do nicely.

Now I'm off to paint some figures with no brown in them.

First, congratulations in getting this project behind you Martin! That was a very impressive amount of work done in very quick-time (and infinitely better than melting them down into a door-stop). I now look forward to seeing Michael's rejoinder. It's like watching Cricket! The poor fellow has a bit of brisk bowling ahead of him....

I also look forward to seeing what you branch out into after this Herculean effort.

 Well done!