Author Topic: Zulus (Read 3337 times)

archiduque · « **on:** October 04, 2019, 10:12:28 AM »

Hi all!! I’ve painted this Zulu unit for Michael Perry. I hope you like them!!

https://archiduquerpc.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/zulus-001.jpg

https://archiduquerpc.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/zulus-002.jpg

https://archiduquerpc.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/zulus-003.jpg

https://archiduquerpc.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/zulus-004.jpg

https://archiduquerpc.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/zulus-005.jpg

https://archiduquerpc.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/zulus-006.jpg

https://archiduquerpc.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/zulus-007.jpg

Saludos
Rafa

Mick_in_Switzerland · « **Reply #1 on:** October 04, 2019, 10:13:36 AM »

Brilliant - well done

OSHIROmodels · « **Reply #2 on:** October 04, 2019, 10:28:55 AM »

Lovely work Rafa

Plynkes · « **Reply #3 on:** October 04, 2019, 10:37:01 AM »

Now that's what it's all about. I do like to see a well-turned out set of Zulus. Magnificent painting, Rafa.

Jeff965 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 04, 2019, 10:40:59 AM »

Beautiful work Rafa

Atheling · « **Reply #5 on:** October 04, 2019, 10:58:16 AM »

Excellent work Rafa

Funnily enough I was just looking at these on your website

Arundel · « **Reply #6 on:** October 04, 2019, 02:25:33 PM »

Lovely brushwork! It's odd to me that the bald chaps don't have the head ring. Was that common?

Plynkes · « **Reply #7 on:** October 04, 2019, 02:41:20 PM »

Head rings were made from the hair growing from one's head. They were more hairstyle than hat.

If you go bald there's nothing to make one from.

traveller · « **Reply #8 on:** October 04, 2019, 02:44:48 PM »

Awesome!!!

I would like to know what paint you used for the skintone, it looks perfect!

Swordisdrawn · « **Reply #9 on:** October 04, 2019, 02:55:14 PM »

Excellent!

Mike1879 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 04, 2019, 03:14:11 PM »

Excellent work Rafa. Inspiring me to crack on with mine which are currently based and undercoated !!! Love the Perry Zulus even if they are plastics

Mike1879 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 04, 2019, 03:41:28 PM »

The Zulu headring
isiCoco (plural: iziCoco): married Zulus headring made from binding a ring of fibre into the hair, coated in a mixture of charcoal and gum, and polished with beeswax. It was a common practice to share part or all of the rest of the head to accentuate the presence of the isicoco - although this varied from one Zulu to the next, and shaving the hair not a required part of a warriors 'costume

Plynkes · « **Reply #12 on:** October 04, 2019, 03:57:15 PM »

Traveller, you are on the right track if you might imagine an older regiment (with more baldies in it) to be more likely to be married and have the head ring than a younger one (the isiCoco is like a wedding ring, it shows you are married) . But it isn't necessarily so. Everyone in a regiment was the same age, and would be given permission to marry as a mark of favour from the king, and then they would all be married together in a mass ceremony. But sometimes a regiment might be withheld permission for years, and a younger regiment allowed to marry instead, because they were the king's favourites.

So it is possible you'd have a married regiment of quite young men, and an unmarried one of older types. But generally it would be the other way around.

Of course some people go bald quite young. My uncle went completely bald in his early twenties.

RedRowan · « **Reply #13 on:** October 04, 2019, 09:19:50 PM »

Those are very nice!

Steve

Captain Blood · « **Reply #14 on:** October 04, 2019, 09:49:14 PM »

Very nice Rafa

I have just been painting a few of these myself.

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