Zulu!
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About the Project
The Battle of Rorke's Drift (1879), also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was an engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War. The successful British defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenants John Chard of the Royal Engineers and Gonville Bromhead, began when a large contingent of Zulu warriors broke off from their main force during the final hour of the British defeat at the day-long Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, diverting 6 miles (9.7 km) to attack Rorke's Drift later that day and continuing into the following day. Just over 150 British and colonial troops defended the station against attacks by 3,000 to 4,000 Zulu warriors. The massive but piecemeal attacks by the Zulu on Rorke's Drift came very close to defeating the much smaller garrison but were consistently repelled. Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to the defenders, along with a number of other decorations and honours.
Related Game: Black Powder
Related Company: Warlord Games
Related Genre: Historical
This Project is Active
Brandy's for heroes Mr Hook
The hospital still need to work on the roof
Update
All the Zulus have paint on
All the British are well on their way to being finished 
And the improvised barricades are well on their way to being finished The storehouse and hospital are 80% built and I will be doing some more work on them this weekend
“Here they come, as thick as grass and as black as thunder.”
1st 5 married ZulusEmpress miniatures Rorkes Drift film heroes
Hook, Chard, Bromhead and Broune
Company cook, 593 Jones, Hughes, Owen?
Reynolds and Hitch, Schiess, Dalton, Smith
Painting test
I started by undercoating in gray. Then I blocked out the colours to get the basic scheme down 
Red coats assembled
They are all mounted on 25mm washers
More stuff Bought !!!
Private Henry Hook, Chard, Bromhead and Colour Sargeant Bourne
Rorkes Drift defenders. 
Chaplain George Smith, Corporal Friederich Schiess of the Natal Native Contingent, Acting Assistant Commissary James Langley Dalton, Surgeon Reynolds and Private HitchI have ordered these Rorkes Drift characters from Emperess
£25 for the 3 packs of four models including postage
the purchases for this project
picked the battle set up for £155 off of amazon
back of the box
I picked up The men who would be kings rule set, after seeing Gerry's project
I have ordered 100 25mm washers as the bases
and 10 pill shaped clear bases for the horse i know that the poem Boots, is from the second boar war 20 years later. But I think its still fits with the era
