Film Zulu: Colour Sergeant Bourne: It's a miracle. Lieutenant John Chard: If it's a miracle, Colour Sergeant, it's a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle. Colour Sergeant Bourne: And a bayonet, sir, with some guts behind it.
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Subject: flocking stands to historical accuracy Mon Jan 16, 2023 10:50 pm
Hello all, wargammer painting new zulu army with a question. Its mainly for Isandlwana and Rorkes Drift. The Zulus are 15mm mounted on 50mm x 75mm with 10-12 figures on the stand.
Iam about to start flocking some stands and am running into a bit of a dilemma with regards to authentic look of terrain specifically grass colour/variety, height, density/sparsity, etc. I have been looking for pictorial references to base my flocking on and have befuddled myself. Any help would be much appreciated via link, pics or description.
thank you
gardner1879
Posts : 2842 Join date : 2021-01-04
Subject: Re: flocking stands to historical accuracy Tue Jan 17, 2023 12:29 pm
Hi Khan Being the height of summer and with a lot of rain at the end of 1878 beginnning of 1879 the area would have been very green with very long grass, in some places shoulder high. Long grass like this I appreciate would not be parctical for wargaming but the area would have been a lot greener than people imagine. There would be standing water in the dongas along the valley in front of the camp and vertical surfaces in the landscape would be a brown/orange colour. Tracks would would be muddy with deep furrows when regularly used by heavy wagons. Hope this helps
khan1162
Posts : 2 Join date : 2022-10-22
Subject: Re: flocking stands to historical accuracy Wed Jan 18, 2023 10:35 pm
thank you, thats the info i needed to start doing mock ups.
Herbie
Posts : 103 Join date : 2017-11-16 Age : 57 Location : Epsom, Surrey
Subject: Re: flocking stands to historical accuracy Thu Jan 19, 2023 6:40 pm
Hi Khan Here’s a couple of shots of some of my basing if it’s any help. Cheers Phil
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