I have tinkered with colonial wargaming in the past, I had 15mm Anglo Egyptian/British/ Boer but sold it years ago. The main reason for not doing it again was that you need an awful lot of natives painted up against a small number of Europeans and I apart from the expense I would get sick of painting the large numbers of natives required or in this case "Zulus Sir, thousands of em."
Now offspring can, if your not careful cost you a great deal of money but when they get a bit older they (God bless their cotton socks) can come in very useful as far as modern technology is concerned. This instance being 3D printers, well beyond my ken. My lad (he's 34 for goodness sake!) is a keen painter of fantasy figures, prints his own and was kind enough to offer to print off any wargaming figures that I required. Now having watched Little Wars TV Isandlwana where they used 6mm Baccus figures I was of course hooked, add free 3D printed Zulus and away we went. At first we tried this file in 10mm but the figures were far too chunky but shrunk down to 6mm they worked a treat.
The British and the Natal native contingent are Baccus while the necessary large numbers of Zulu regiments are resin prints cut up from their five base strips and spread about on the bases. An awful lot more Zulus to do plus mounted Brits.
More to come no doubt.
Dave.
Interesting project and the 3D print Zulus look very decent indeed, I think for the Zulu wars you are right going for 6mm as you need so many of them. Great work and look forward to seeing more.
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