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Voting closed: May 11, 2018, 11:57:53 PM

Author Topic: Round 2 - Bulalio the Slaughterer vs. Field Punishment  (Read 4005 times)

Offline Overlord

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Round 2 - Bulalio the Slaughterer vs. Field Punishment
« on: May 05, 2018, 11:57:53 PM »



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Re: Round 2 - Bulalio the Slaughterer vs. Field Punishment
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2018, 07:15:31 PM »
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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Re: Round 2 - Bulalio the Slaughterer vs. Field Punishment
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2018, 07:34:22 PM »
It's from a limited edition vignette they gave away at Salute a few years ago.



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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Re: Round 2 - Bulalio the Slaughterer vs. Field Punishment
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2018, 07:59:52 PM »
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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Re: Round 2 - Bulalio the Slaughterer vs. Field Punishment
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2018, 08:22:51 PM »
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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Re: Round 2 - Bulalio the Slaughterer vs. Field Punishment
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2018, 08:34:23 PM »
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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Re: Round 2 - Bulalio the Slaughterer vs. Field Punishment
« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2018, 08:39:26 PM »
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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Re: Round 2 - Bulalio the Slaughterer vs. Field Punishment
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2018, 06:34:23 AM »
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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Re: Round 2 - Bulalio the Slaughterer vs. Field Punishment
« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2018, 07:32:19 AM »
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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Re: Round 2 - Bulalio the Slaughterer vs. Field Punishment
« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2018, 07:34:14 AM »
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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Re: Round 2 - Bulalio the Slaughterer vs. Field Punishment
« Reply #10 on: May 08, 2018, 02:29:04 AM »
Cinematic job on Bulalio! Love it. I was reminded of the Black Panther movie and the kingship challenge...haha!

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Re: Round 2 - Bulalio the Slaughterer vs. Field Punishment
« Reply #11 on: May 08, 2018, 09:51:06 AM »
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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Re: Round 2 - Bulalio the Slaughterer vs. Field Punishment
« Reply #12 on: May 08, 2018, 09:54:11 AM »
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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Re: Round 2 - Bulalio the Slaughterer vs. Field Punishment
« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2018, 10:54:28 AM »
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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Re: Round 2 - Bulalio the Slaughterer vs. Field Punishment
« Reply #14 on: May 08, 2018, 11:12:29 AM »
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.