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Other Stuff => The Lead Painters' League => Season 12 => Topic started by: Overlord on May 06, 2018, 12:57:53 AM
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What a show, Dylan! That Bulalio guy must have been a big baby for his mother, but he fits in here so perfectly. Is it a Reaper figure? I can only hope he will be a bit more magnanimous against his foe than those chinese gentlemen in Paul's lovely scene ...
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It's from a limited edition vignette they gave away at Salute a few years ago.
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I think I bought it here from a fellow LAFer, though I am ashamed to say I cannot remember which one. The sculptor was Adam Clarke of Black Scorpion. I bought him specifically to use as everyone's favourite Zulu axe-maniac, and the LPL gave me the impetus to finally paint the fellow.
Not sure he would be particularly magnanimous, mind. Might make a dent in his "slaughterer" sobriquet. He's better known as Umslopogaas, featuring as Alan Quatermain's sidekick in a couple of Rider Haggard novels, and is one of the main characters in the spin-off novel Nada the Lily, in which we discover he is the son of Shaka. Nada the Lily is absolutely my favourite Rider Haggard novel, a sweeping epic of intrigue, love, adventure and senseless violence amongst the Zulu and Swazi. Highly recommended.
He was, incidentally, once played by James Earl Jones in a terrible movie. :)
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More great entries guys - Dylan returns to Africa with another brilliantly researched vignette, while Paul has done great work on one of my current favourite subjects. Smashing!
Is ‘where’s Baldrick?’ A thing now then? :-)
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Is ‘where’s Baldrick?’ A thing now then? :-)
With Cousin Hammers and his man with a suitcase sitting this one out, I fear it is. Nature abhors a vacuum.
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With Cousin Hammers and his man with a suitcase sitting this one out, I fear it is. Nature abhors a vacuum.
I did Captain Black last year....Earthman OO
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Oh yes! So you did. Can't believe he had slipped my mind. Well, I am in good company, then. Our little LPL traditions must live on. :)
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Bravo for LPL traditions 8)
Great job, both of you.
I’m off to see if I can track down Nada the lily...
(Edit: it’s available as a free download to Kindle from Amazon in the UK, so that was easy... :D)
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With Cousin Hammers and his man with a suitcase sitting this one out, I fear it is. Nature abhors a vacuum.
"Sitting this one out"? Look again. He is hiding there...
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A classic Dylan scene! It is a real kick how you have a story for so many of you miniatures. By the wayt, how many africans do you have painted by now?
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Cinematic job on Bulalio! Love it. I was reminded of the Black Panther movie and the kingship challenge...haha!
Mike Demana
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Cheers, Mike. I haven't seen that one, I'm afraid. There has been such a glut of superhero pictures in recent times that I'm afraid I have grown a little weary of them. I haven't seen any of the latest batch. I did read the Black Panther comics as a kid, though.
By the wayt, how many africans do you have painted by now?
About twelve. It's always the same twelve guys. They exit stage right, run around the back of the camera and re-emerge stage left. I learned that trick from old episodes of Sharpe. Seriously, I have no idea. Nowhere near enough for my liking (all the 28mm Zulus I've ever painted are in that picture and I really want to do some Zulu War skirmishing one day), and yet enough that it feels like I've painted my fill and really ought to be painting something else these days.
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About twelve. It's always the same twelve guys. They exit stage right, run around the back of the camera and re-emerge stage left. I learned that trick from old episodes of Sharpe. Seriously, I have no idea. Nowhere near enough for my liking (all the 28mm Zulus I've ever painted are in that picture and I really want to do some Zulu War skirmishing one day), and yet enough that it feels like I've painted my fill and really ought to be painting something else these days.
Very clever use of just a handful of miniatures.
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Brilliant Zulus :-* I had that salute figure but I didn't like the way his isicoco sat so I flogged it on ebay, regret it now ::)
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Ah, you made the same mistake I nearly did, and that the guy who painted the vignette above did. It isn't an isicoco, it's a headband, either of cloth or animal skin. It's tied at the back in a knot, you can just see it hanging down at the back in the picture. As you say, it is far too low on his brow to be an isicoco, as they were made from living, growing hair, matted with mud and such and shaped into a ring. They are more hairstyle than hat.
You'd have to craft it out of one hell of a mono-brow to have it so low on the forehead like this fellow does. :)
Hey, was it me you sold it to? It might have been.
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Hey, was it me you sold it to? It might have been.
No, mine went to the states.
I think my brother's still got one, I'm going to try and weedle it out of him :D
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Well I read Nada the Lily. Very good. Considering it was written in 1892, the writing feels very fresh. Haggard obviously had a very deep knowledge and appreciation of Zulu culture and mythology. It reminds me of something from the Arabian Nights, tales within tales, which seem to mix history, myth and legend, and fantastic semi supernatural tall tales with the all too real. Thanks for the tip Plynkes :)
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Glad you liked it. I was a bit worried, actually, because Rider Haggard isn't for everyone. Some people don't care for the somewhat old-fashioned style of writing.
It's also kind of remarkable that a novel written by an Englishman at that time has a cast of characters who are all black Africans (apart from some bit-part Boers who play a very peripheral role in the story - if not in history), and doesn't feel the need to insert a white point-of-view character. I do like Quatermain, but in some of his books you get the feeling RH only has him there because he has to, and it's the Africans he's interested in. In those stories Quatermain isn't much more than a glorified narrator watching the action. I'm glad he finally found the courage to do without him, even if only for one book, as he really wasn't needed for this story.
Nada herself is a bit of a let-down, though. She's very much a plot macguffin and near permanent damsel-in-distress. Haggard would refine his African Princess archetype in later books, coming up with the Kick-ass Maiwa, and the scheming Mameema, who are both much more interesting and less passive characters with a lot more agency. A good start, though.