I find my view of him most influenced by the way he refused to meet the Dalai Lama because he was afraid of offending the Chinese we were trading with, after decades of calling on the rest of the world to do everything for SA, which never experienced a fraction of what the Tibetans have been exposed to (well, had, not have, given that there are virtually no Tibetans left by now).

Shall we mention his friendship with Gadaffi? His description of Wouter Basson (employed in apartheid years to research toxins that would affect blacks but not whites) as a "national asset"? His promise to halve his own salary on becoming president (= 15% pay rise and freeze teachers' and nurses' salaries)? The pledging of two years of the GNP to buy a fleet we didn't need? The denial that AIDS was a disease at all (it's just malnutrition, apparently)? The insistence on being friends with dictatorships across the world? The ANC torture camps? The merging of the ANC with the National Party, which had been responsible for apartheid in the first place?

I'm no defender of the old days, but I'm hard put to it to see any improvement in my dear country. Only changes are that life expectancy has dropped by fifteen years and a minority is now subject to racist discrimination.


OK, we legalised gay marriage and abolished capital punishment. I wonder if the great and good Madiba had any hand in those...?

Hmm this has got me interested- watching Zulu with my 2 obsessed Uncles every Christmas from the age of 6 (1 now sadly deprated) means that this always captures the imagination. I did consider doing it at 28mm using Black Powder and bought myself the character figures from Empress Minis of the film cast, but doing  ahuge battle would be costly, so 10mm looks much more tempting. I foresee a new project shaping itself in my mind.

Zulu. 

Historically inaccurate in almost evey way, yet still and absolute corker of a movie!

Doing it as a battle?

I think its best done as a skirmish/tactical game really since the point of decision is so small, and if you cram 4000 Zulus on the board 3900 of 'em at any one time will be pretty much bystanders! 

It'd make a cracking display in 10mm though.   


I'd love to see a remake of Zulu, done properly and sticking to the historical reality.  I always find the reality of these things far more thrilling than Hollywood.  Although perhaps not in this case...

'Front raaank!  FIRE!!!'

After receiving my order of  Brits and Zulus I started to build the compound myself as I wanted to create the compound playable with the right dimensions to keep proportions of the building and exterior bag walls.

Another thing to consider is the basing for the minis. I wanted to use a ruleset that recreates the conflict in a tactical way so I decided to base brits in bases for 1 figure and zulus a mix to be able to split the Iviyos as they take casualties and some individuals to manage when they climb the roofs, fighting within the rooms and Close combat when within the complex.

I created 10 indunas of 15 figs each and around 30 figs individually based. Each Iviyo will have an induna as leader. Indunas will take effect in morale as per the rules selected.
The compound is made from scratch and I have to say it is reall

Now on my to-do list is basing the whole bunch of figs applying sand to the bases... and play my first defense!   

Pics of the Rorke's compound:
Hospital Exterior:
Hospital Interior:
Warehouse Exterior:
Warehouse interior:
Sarge they are coming!:
Defending the cart:

Keep calm while aiming!

Superb! Really cool ! 

VERY tasty !
Cheers - Phil.

Excellent. Should be fun to play. 

I like this!

Thanks!

I have the project finished. I will upload new pics as soon as I can command the zulus to assault the Rorke again!... 

As promised you can find below the rorke's drift battle in 10mm. I hope you like it!

Very nice indeed, i did this a year or so ago  in 6mm, looks better in 10 though,

kev

Fantastic!

My hat goes of to you!

Cool stuff!

Looks good and a nice compact table .

Nice game. The buildings really make it. 

Yep - that looks lovely 

Great stuff !!
Cheers - Phil.

Thank you!!!! 

I just spoke to a buddy about the movie, he'd never heard of it, but he knows a ton about the event.

Anyway, this is a good starting point for my own set!  Thank you!!

I'll just leave this here:

That I like