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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: Heldrak on April 24, 2011, 11:52:13 AM

Title: Empress Zulu "Movie" Brits
Post by: Heldrak on April 24, 2011, 11:52:13 AM

Now that LPL round 6 is well-and-truly over, I thought that folks might like to see some individual pictures of my Empress "Movie" Zulu Brits.

LPL Entry:
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLV/LPLV6/IMG_0002.jpg)

Individual photos:

(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLV/LPLV6/IMG_0008.jpg)

(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLV/LPLV6/IMG_0006.jpg)

(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLV/LPLV6/IMG_0010.jpg)

(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLV/LPLV6/IMG_0009.jpg)

(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLV/LPLV6/IMG_0007.jpg)

Stanley Baker as Lt. John Chard, R.E.
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLV/LPLV6/IMG_0021.jpg)

Michael Caine as Lt. Gonville Bromhead
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLV/LPLV6/IMG_0020.jpg)

Nigel Green as Colour Sergeant Bourne
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLV/LPLV6/IMG_0017.jpg)

James "Son of Steptoe" Booth as Pvt. Henry Hook
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLV/LPLV6/IMG_0019.jpg)

No one in particular as Sergeant Filler
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/LPLV/LPLV6/IMG_0018.jpg)


Amusingly, I re-did Colour Sergeant Bourne's eyes four times, and of course you can't see them under his helmet in any of the photographs...

You only get four movie-related figures in the Empress Zulu pack, so I had to sub in another empress Sergeant from their regular Zulu range to make up the numbers.

Title: Re: Empress Zulu "Movie" Brits
Post by: Arthur on April 24, 2011, 12:41:16 PM

Lovely work. The eyes are particularly well done, as are the flesh tones.

Title: Re: Empress Zulu "Movie" Brits
Post by: Heldrak on April 24, 2011, 12:55:06 PM

Quote from: Arthur on April 24, 2011, 12:41:16 PM

Lovely work. The eyes are particularly well done, as are the flesh tones.

Thanks. Those are the things that I give the most time and attention to- It's nice to hear that it's paying off...!  ;)

Title: Re: Empress Zulu "Movie" Brits
Post by: Phil Robinson on April 24, 2011, 01:52:19 PM

Very nice work, you have certainly done Paul's work on the characters justice.

Title: Re: Empress Zulu "Movie" Brits
Post by: traveller on April 24, 2011, 01:55:28 PM

Excellent! I would never dare closeups like that on my poor brushwork  :'(

Title: Re: Empress Zulu "Movie" Brits
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on April 25, 2011, 09:07:22 AM

The eyes are certainly outstanding - as is the rest of your painting. Poorly painted eyes usually ruin a figure for me. They are often too big and look ridiculous, which is why I never bother trying to do them.

That your figures still look so good with those extreme close-ups shows how well they are painted :-*

It's a little bit of a shame that the Colour Sgt Bourne figure is probably the one that resembles the actor the least. He's my favourite character from the film, but even so is still a great figure.

A must-have set of figures for Zulu fans  :D