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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Keith on 28 March 2010, 12:44:33 AM
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(http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/1269/hooky.jpg)
Private Hook - new Empress figure form a 'Hollywood' Rorkes Drift set.
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Great brushwork Keith on Hookie. He certainly looks the part and well done to Empress Miniatures for the upcoming set.
Helen
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:o WoW
Even I can recognise this character from the film and I didn’t saw it more than once or twice, good job! 8)
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Awesome figure - awesome paint job!
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Realy captures the feel of the character in Zulu.
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Wow, first off, top-notch painting. Great job. Secondly, that's just about the best sculpt of a "movie/real" person I've ever seen. Can't wait to see the others.
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that is great, he even has the sneer. love the paint job! :)
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Saw this over on the SD forum. Very nicely painted and as I said there, I'll be buying one. Regardless of Historical accuracy as he will only end up fighting Martians and Prussians! ;D
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Splendid sculpting and painting, both.
And while it does indeed look like James Booth, there's also more than a hint of a resemblance to Harry H Corbett. If I ever work up the nerve to convert up an Inspector Bung or 'Arold Steptoe, I know where to start.
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Splendid sculpting and painting, both.
And while it does indeed look like James Booth, there's also more than a hint of a resemblance to Harry H Corbett. If I ever work up the nerve to convert up an Inspector Bung or 'Arold Steptoe, I know where to start.
I can't resist this, so....
you dirty old man! lol
You are right though, he does look a lot like Harry H as well as Mr Booth.
Great painting by Keith of a superb figure and I can't wait to see Stanley Baker!
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Impressive bit of painting there my good man :)
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Brilliant painting on a very nicely sculpted figure!
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WOW that is great painting :-* :-* :-*
When I first opened the thread I thought it was a larger scale figure. I take it is 28mm, being empress?
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Excellent painting.....any ideas when these will be released?
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Looks like they are available today :)
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Oh boy, a shopping we will go, cheers for the heads up Keith! Best get the book about the making of the movie out for painting reffs!
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Fantastic painting! Not my subject usually but I grew up watching Zulu(I think all British bairns did) so I think a purchase is in order. Once again top notch figure and PJ. :-*
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Sweet work. :)
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Awesome :o
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Beautiful paintjob, and must-have figures. :)
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"Brandys for heroes Mr Hook" great brushwork there :-* really is a work of art
also a great set empress ladies!
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also a great set empress ladies!
Very true! I've just seen the pic of the full set - for some reason I didn't notice it when I looked earlier ::)
Each figure is superb, but being an ex-Sapper Lt Chard VC is my favourite :D
Also, considering what some companies would charge for this sort of character set, fantastic value too.
A must-have!
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Very nice sculpt and brushwork. Still the most rewarding part of this thread is to discover that there are people actually contemplating gaming with rag and bone men. I can see movement in the making, '70s sitcom characters in 28mm, of course I may be behind the times myself, if I think about it. Just about every one of Bob Murch's female sculpts looks a little like Yootha Joyce.
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Very true! I've just seen the pic of the full set - for some reason I didn't notice it when I looked earlier ::)
Each figure is superb, but being an ex-Sapper Lt Chard VC is my favourite :D
Also, considering what some companies would charge for this sort of character set, fantastic value too.
A must-have!
Wow, I missed the Michael Caine figure too. Perfect for conversions, just need a suitable figure in a trenchcoat carrying a double barreled shotgun and a bottle of whisky. Anyone fancy doing a modelling tutorial on a multi story carpark in Gateshead?
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Nice mini and reflects his attitude quite well. 8)
Cheers
Christopher
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(http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/1269/hooky.jpg)
Private Hook - new Empress figure form a 'Hollywood' Rorkes Drift set.
A great figure!
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@Carlos - gaming with rag and bone men? I'd love to see miniature versions of Bramble & Son: Vampire Hunters, lol.
(http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/1812/103342-18370-107797-1-jack-staff_medium.jpg)
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Mine is on the way...
Thanks for the heads up
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And, back on-topic, I have placed my order with Empress.
The other figures in the pack are brilliant too
http://www.empressminiatures.com/ (http://www.empressminiatures.com/)
(http://www.empressminiatures.com/userimages/TMP_001.jpg)
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Empress Miniatures' Anglo-Zulu stuff does get me very excitable and this set is no exception. The paint job on the insalubrious Hook is absolutely stunning, Keith.
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Awesome, the paint job and the miniatures. Better get my salute list back out again!
Mors
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Holy crap! That is a perfect likeness, even that facial expression!
Well done. Great painting.
"You know what she needs?" (LOL! My favorite line of his. )
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Excellent looking models, and top rate paint job!! :-* :-*
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Brilliant model, lovely paint job.
It seems almost churlish to point out out that the malingering drunk version of Hooky in the film was about a million miles away from what the real Hook was like...
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He is cracking :-* I wish they had been around when I was collecting zulus :? dont think I could face doing them again.
Alright we need suitable quotes from the film for this chap......
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Brilliant model, lovely paint job.
It seems almost churlish to point out out that the malingering drunk version of Hooky in the film was about a million miles away from what the real Hook was like...
It is indeed a lovely piece of work, but as oxiana points out, the film portrayal was in no way a representation of the real Henry Hook. Back in the late '70s I worked with a descendant of the great man, and if you wanted to upset him, just mention the film Zulu. Henry Hook was a Gloucester man, not a cockney spiv, and was a soldier with a good conduct history, as well as being god fearing and a good family man. At the conclusion of the battle when Lord Chelmsford arrived, Bromhead asked Hook to give his account of the fight in the hospital. Hook being a very modest man, gave his account and played down his part in the action. However they learnt what he had done from the others involved and that is why he got the VC.
But that is the movies for you, Likewise, Bromhead and Chard were not the characters protrayed in the movie. Bromhead was a subaltern of 33, and slightly deaf, and Chard was an under achieving Engineer. Both were promoted to Major after the battle, but that was the extent of their career. Neither was the 24th a Welsh regiment, having a much greater proportion of Englishmen in it, and being named the 2nd Warwickshire Regiment. It was not designated as the South Wales Borderers until much later. Otto Witt the drunken preacher in the film version, did not flee the mission station with his daughter after a fit of religious indignation, but slunk away before the fighting really got going, and later went to the UK where he did a lecture tour portraying himself as a hero of the battle. But thats Hollywood for you.
I could continue to pick holes in the "historical accuracy" of the film, but I do love the movie despite these anachronisms.
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Do not fear historical ones are next!.
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Do not fear historical ones are next!.
Hurrah! Take it wont have Bromhead with a speaking trumpet going 'eh?' then lol. Lovely figures and look forward to the historical ones next.
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A splendid figure of the movie Hook! :-*
And yes, all honor to the real Henry Hook, from all accounts a decent chap in every way.
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A splendid figure of the movie Hook! :-*
And yes, all honor to the real Henry Hook, from all accounts a decent chap in every way.
Of course.
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Hook being a very modest man, gave his account and played down his part in the action. However they learnt what he had done from the others involved and that is why he got the VC.
I assume that his modesty is why he recorded himself in the 1881 Census as Henry (V.C.) Hook - unless his boss recorded him as such.
Cheers
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Surely that would have been from military records and thus shown all his awards/medals?
I'd have to ask my dad, he's a geneologist and frequently uses the available Census'.
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Do not fear historical ones are next!.
Yay! Chard with a big bushy beard! :D
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Looking sorrowfully at his wrecked wagon and single bottle of beer. lol
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Superb paint job Keith. 8)
Great figure set of the Zulu film characters. Got to be in every military history buff's top 20 films, it's certainly in mine. Like the Hook model very much - straight out of the film - even though the Pvt Hook portrayed in the film was very different from the real one ;)
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Got to be in every military history buff's top 20 films, it's certainly in mine.
It's in my top 1 ;)
Surely the standout role of James Booth's career, and one of the (many) main ingredients in making the movie so utterly brilliant - historically accurate or not.
I remember seeing him playing some ne'er-do-well in an episode of 'The Bill' a few years ago, shortly before he died.
Maybe he knew it was his farewell performance, because he looked pretty ragged poor chap - quite an old man.
But he had a brilliant scene in a cubicle in the Sun Hill WC, where he knocks the top off a bottle of booze and necks the whole thing - exactly as he did in that iconic scene in Zulu. It was only at that point I realised it was him. It was a blatant, out-and-out reference to the movie. Whether 'The Bill's' producers knew it or not, or whether they just indulged an old actor on his last legs, I guess we'll never know... But it was a wonderful moment. Sent a shiver down my spine.
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Well, I was going to ask if there was a Color Sergent fig too. He's my 2nd fav character in the movie, after Hook of course!
Got any pix of the sarge painted? "There's a good Gentleman."