Completed Zulu

[jimmyoc]

Hi, top class,

 

[NickM]

Brilliant! I love the flesh-tones, as well as the treatment of the skins he's wearing. Everything is just amazing. One of the nicest figures I've seen painted.

Cheers!
Nick

 

[JGREEN]

Alexandros, Martin, Christos, Derek, Jimmy and Nick:

Thank you for the nice feedback! Always appreciated!

Jason

 

[mike.d]

beautiful work and very inspiring jason,mike you are right about the david grieve zulu it was realmodels who produced it ,my first trip to mfca widener college1978 bought the zulu and bromhead

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Nearly missed this one Jason , another cracking pint job on this forum the quality just gets better all the time.

Ron

 

[Ferris]

Also nearly missed this. Another stunning bit of paintwork Jason!
I find your painting very inspiring and try to learn from it. So thanks for another example...!

Cheers,
Adrian

 

[JGREEN]

Mike, Ron and Adrian:

Thanks guys!

Jason

 

[Steve]

I can't help myself; this has nada to do with Jason's otherworldly paint job, but a word to Pegaso: one of the first things Shaka did when he took the helm of the Zulu nation was to outlaw the wearing of sandals by warriors. To bring his point home he had the ground at the royal kraal stewn with thorns and then made the impi's dance for hours. The dance features lifting the feet as high as possible and then crashing them down on the ground. Anyone who flinched was executed. The warriors got the message. This figure is post-Shaka by virtue of the stabbing spear. At least this is the way I understand it.--

 

[sippog]

I cannot remember the original manufacturer of this iconic model, but it definitely was not Rosedale.

A rose by any other name . . . as they say

I came across this when I was clearing out for my sale. Definitely wont be selling it though.
Thanks for supplying the colour picture BTW, much better than my scan.

 

[bonehead]

View attachment 98052
A rose by any other name . . . as they say

I came across this when I was clearing out for my sale. Definitely wont be selling it though.
Thanks for supplying the colour picture BTW, much better than my scan.

David,

The key term here is "original manufacturer". As Mike D. stated above, the Zulu and Bromhead figures sculpted by David Grieve were originally produced by Realmodels. Certainly that was the name on my kit way back when. I bought the kit when it was first released. Perhaps Rosedale acquired the masters at a later date?