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Wednesday, 23 January 2019

The Men Who Would Be Kings: Rorke's Drift - the Buildings

As it is the 140th anniversary of the Anglo-Zulu War, George and I decided we would try and recognise that by attempting to recreate the two big famous battles of the war using The Men Who Would Be Kings.

I also volunteered to scratchbuild the buildings for Rorke's Drift and after some Google-fu came across this excellent article on Matakishi's Tea House complete with some very useful measurements.

So over the last couple of days I have been carving up cork tiles and soaking a brown towel in diluted PVA 'Tea House' style and tonight presented my efforts at the club...

The Hospital:



The Commissariat: 





A report of whether of not the Zulus were more successful than their historical counterparts follows in a day or so...
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3 comments:

  1. Phil Curran24 January 2019 at 07:01

    It's nice to see Matakishis work completed by others, I must say you're doing very well.
    On an Orctober front your series of articles from a couple of years ago have been excellent in helping me paint my orc force for Rangers of Shadow Deep

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  2.  Ashley24 January 2019 at 08:25

    Very nice buildings. Well done.

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  3. Phil6 February 2019 at 11:04

    Nice looking buildings, lovely roofs!

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