Warlord Games Rorke's Drift Project

Been awhile since my last post. I have been painting slowly but surely and of course life seems to interject into my hobby time. Below are some pictures of my current project, the Warlord Games Rorke's Drift battle set. I am almost done with just three figures to go, one main building, and some incidentals. Here are some of the figures I have finished recently. The first few in formation are not from the boxed set but make for a nice addition to the over all collection.These are really detailed and beautiful sculpts in 28mm. I was missing a gun for the guy on the front row wiping the sweat from his head. I used a musket from the Wargames Factory War of Spanish Succession figures. Luckily most of his hand covers the firing mechanism so it doesn't stand out too badly.

 The next few are from the Warlord Games Heroes of Rorke's Drift, both the historical and non-historical sets. I elected to paint the movie version figures in the same type of uniforms as seen in the film. So the green around the collar is a solid piece with no white border and the shoulder boards are solid green with a white border rather than red with a white border. Three figures to go and the figure side of the project is done for awhile. I do have army boxes of both British and Zulus for later.

 Below you can see the basic layout of the project. I am just posting two pictures to give a rough idea of how things are progressing and when it is all done I will do a complete post just on the whole enchilada. I still have one building to paint, the thatch roofs need to be painted, some of the smaller buildings outside the perimeter need paint as well as the wagon and water cart. I have tried to keep the general layout as close as I can to Rorke's Drift given the space and pieces I have. The trees were not in those locations during the battle, they are just artistic license. The solid gray rocks were not there either, but rather are part of my Games Workshop game boards. I also recently received the doors and frames for the two large buildings and will be putting those in soon. After that and three more figures its complete!

 Questions or comments are welcome.

Wargames Factory War of Spanish Succession Aunis Battalion Round 2

I had previously published a batch of the WGF WSS French troops and was never really satisfied with the results. I went back and repainted them from scratch and did some more research on the uniforms of the French army during this time. The flags are nothing special, just printed out on a standard printer and then painted. I might one day order some of the high end flags to replace these. I think this second attempt turned out much better and the faces no longer have that bug eyed look. These figures still represent the Aunis Battalion and I added one regiment flag and one Colonels flag, made the Colonels pose more dynamic, changed the drummers uniform colors, added 4 grenadiers, and one sergeant. Here is a link to the original batch for a comparison.
First attempt

And here is round 2:

Warlord Games Rorke's Drift Box Set

Here are some pictures of my progress on the Warlord Games Box set for Rorke's Drift. I have quite a few more Zulus to go, 12 more British and one building left to complete the set. I do have quite a few more British and Zulus to paint up at a later date. Right now I am trying to just finish this project up as is and then add the rest of the figures later as I try to expand the total forces. The 4ground buildings are excellent and go together very easily.

Here are the first batch of Zulus. The figure on horseback and the figure in the British jacket are from Empress miniatures and came with the set. However, they were not very well molded and required a lot of work. The metal Empress figures for the British were top notch and had no problems.

Here are all the terrain accessories:

 This is not part of the set but I included it as it adds to the overall look of the set. The well is from Architects of War.

This is the hospital, one of two buildings in the set. I did not glue the thatch roof down as I wanted to have removable in case I wanted to use the scenery with another display or game era. By removing the thatch the buildings look quite at home on the Russian Front.

And finally the first batch of the 24th Foot.

 This are the two Empress miniatures metal figures that come with the set. They are nice figures and much better than the Zulu figures from Empress that came with the set.