Rorke´s Drift 1879

[zulu`s 1000`s of em]

I have contacted Italeri via their web site requesting they make more Zulu`s, the old Esci ones are not very accurate. If they get enough requests from customers you never know they may just make some better ones, so please send in requests.

[Beano Boy]

Italeri,yes i am still waiting for their design department to contact me,as they said they would in an E Mail. That was 16 months ago. BB

[Cryns]

Dear Captain Morris,

I was very surprised to see your work last week. Overall it is very good. But some details caught my special attention: the colored lines on the postbags, the texts on the ammunition cases and especially those metal figures you don't remember the manufacturers name of. The priest is fantastic: Running with a first aid bag, bending over to avoid getting hit by spears, wearing his priest dress but also a helmet for safety. A unique figure and you made it come alive. Same with the guy in blue distributing the ammunition.

I like to mention how much more dynamic and 3-dimensional the metal figures look compared to the plastic Esci ones. But still they all fit together very well. The painting work is excellent.

I have a question concerning the thatched roof. It has no waterproof rooftop. Imagine this is real thatch: then there will be an unsealed line running all over the length of the rooftop letting the raining water through into the house. In history people from all over the world came up with every thinkable way of making their thatch rooftops waterproof: by using clay, plaster, roof tiles, wood, lead, straw-tufts and turf, in combination with wooden enforcements to keep straw-tufts or turf in place. What do you think was used here in Rorkes Drift? Or was the house unfinished in 1879?

[Lacc]

Good job, Captain.
I love the house, because for me is very difficult build it.
Also I think that some zulus warriors opposite to red jackets will have good look.

Alfredo