From Rorke's Drift he came... (Part 1 - WIP)

Here's another out of the blue rpg character painted up for my upcoming (= after the Summer) roleplay campaign. This fellow will be one of the personalities the player characters can choose from a set of 7 (So they still feel like they retain a modicum of "choice"). He'll be a dark-skinned barbarian warrior (The setting our campaigns have been played in is a Frazetta-esque barbarian world) from the plains peoples. The mini is the old old Zulu Warrior from the Citadel Miniatures Talisman range. A clumsy sculpt, truth be told, but like many in the Talisman range is contains a lot of character.

Skin, head-dress, body and "clothing" is mostly done. Right eye is rubbish so I'll be revisiting that next.

 In the pictures of Zulu warriors that I found, the fighters would carry all their spare spears, javelins and clubs in their shield hand, ready to be taken up once their primary weapon was spent. To this end I made a cheeky club out of paperclip and smoothed out green stuff that I'll be sticking in his shield-hand (Drilling a hole thru it - gulp..) as his back-up weapon. 

The shield is different to the traditional zulu style - small and round, more of a buckler. It'll still be made of animal hides though.

Tomorrow is our 11th Wedding anniversary.... Bloody hell that came around fast.