flocking stands to historical accuracy

Posts : 2 Join date : 2022-10-22

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

Posts : 3474 Join date : 2021-01-04

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

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thank you, thats the info i needed to start doing mock ups.

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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Subject: Re: flocking stands to historical accuracy Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:51 am

Hi,

I've textured the bases, put some patches of flock and then put a number of tufts on the bases.

The tufts I have used are quite tall - thigh to waist height on a 25mm figure.

There's no need to absolutely cover the base with tufts, just put enough on them to give the impression of long grass.

Cheers

Simon

Posts : 34 Join date : 2021-06-04

I tend to find the most common issue with AZW collections is the lack of green which particularly around Isandlwana time was prevalent in country.

I tend to mix stuff up a bit but between terrain and bases go for a mix of green static grass, longer beige and green tufts and then of course rocks and earth with that orange balance which is seen across Africa. A few pics attached.

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