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just finsihed the rourkes drift set from warlord games . buildings are lazer cut awesomenesss ! great figs and terrain . when completed and added to what i already had . i was real happy going to plan a giant black powder game soon . stay tuned enjoy the pics

















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Absulutly loving it!!!

Ah, nicely painted guardsmen.
Wait, those aren't Praetorians...

*AUGH*SQUICK*DAUGH*
REAL WORLD ALERT!
A mini wargame that isn't based in a goofy fantasy world? Does not COMPUTE.

(signal lost)

That's a lot of little army men. Nice dedication, brother!

Fantastic work there, I'm in total envy!

Epic! That's a boatload of quality painting!

Minor quibble. There were no Gatling guns or artillery at Roarke's Drift.

Pretty cool, and nicely painted. I like it!

thanks guys . yeah i know theres no gatiling gun and cannons there but i through them in the photos for fun . they were used in other zulu battles latter on . i never go for a fully historical angel i do a lot of what ifs . cant wait to get a game with them !

Nice stuff.

Now do a batrep...

Nice work. I like it.

Very cool. I don't know anything about this game but i'm really digging the set up here.

That's really cool man. One of my favorite battles from history...not to mention one of my all time favorite movies.

While part of me wishes you'd made the numbers true to scale...i.e. the 4-5,000 zulus there were, I realize that's insane. Heh.

Great job, made me want to watch the movie again.

Love it! Now where's Michael Caine in all that?
Also, second picture; who is the little chap in a red coat on the far left?

Wow, those are some great pics. Really awesome scenery. I love all of it. Definitely put images of the real thing in my head

Man, I can almost hear the drums! Seriously impressive dedication there.

Wow, looks great! This is so cool.

Those are some awesome models you got there.

Mind showing us dakkites where you got those brits from? As well as some closeups of that awesome terrain (like the barricades and the buildings)

The guy on the left is a Zulu with a captured brit jacket, and all the figures are from warlord games (at least, the Rourke's drift box was)

To answer some of the questions I do have a Michael Cain fig as well as the engineer lt and the color sgt from the movie . Empress makes a set of four figs called "heros of rorkes drift " and they all look like the actors from the film . I used a mix of figs . Some Brits are plastic warlord and wargames factory , some metal empress figs too as well as some perry brothers Brits from there Sudan range . That's how I got the British naval crew with Gatling guns . The Zulus are made up of mostly plastic wargames factory figs . Which don't look great on there own but for $ 16 bucks for 30 , and when there ranked up on multi bases they do just fine . Also have two units of the warlord plastic Zulus which are beautiful ! The rorkes drift box sets awesome , worth it's price tag . I which games workshop would rease cool themed box sets like this one for 40k and fantasy . Figs terrain and more is great and a lot of fun to put together .

Wow, fantastic. Great display too.

Wow great work. Does the battle justice.

Fantastic suff, Love it i do.

Well done my friend..

"damn you Chard, damn all you butchers"




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Men of Harlech stop your screaming, cant you see their spear points gleaming
See the warrior fell and screaming
To this battlefield