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Creative => Customs Gallery => Topic started by: cheng on November 23, 2011, 02:44:44
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At the Battle of Isandlwana, 22 January 1879, 11 days after the British commenced their invasion of Zululand,
20,000 Zulu warriors attacked about 1,800 British, colonial, native troops and civilians.
The Zulus were equipped mainly with the traditional Assegai iron spears, iklwa, and cow-hide shields,
while the British were armed with the state-of-the-art Martini-Henry rifles.
The numerically superior Zulus ultimately overwhelmed the poorly led and badly deployed British, killing over 1,300 troops,
while the Zulu army only suffered around a thousand killed.
On the following day, at the Defence of Rorke's Drift, under Lieutenant John Chard of the Royal Engineers,
just over 150 British and colonial troops successfully defended against 3,000 to 4,000 Zulu warriors.
11 Victoria Crosses were awarded to the defenders, one of them could have been SpeedoDad, who survived the horrific battle. :P
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:wow: :wow: :wow: I love it, Cheng! You make me want to watch Zulu again.....
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:wow: :wow: :wow: I love it, Cheng! You make me want to watch Zulu again.....
I heR the title song already 'we are growing'
Great pics cheng! Is that shaka who attacks speedodad?
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Nice shovel! Pgal :wave:
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This is brilliant!!! A most excellent set up, cheng!!!
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thanks evryone!
Nice shovel! Pgal :wave:
...a custom nevertheless ;D
@conniefrere:
Shaka, the legendary and brilliant Zulu king who introduced formations and even distinctive names and insignia for each regiment? I will try to customise him ;D
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Great!
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Brilliant! I love it how people use the klickies to describe historical facts... well done, Cheng
Also very funny how a impossible figure as the male swimmer (nothing fits him!) got a name - SpeedoDad-, and became a real character that pops up anywhere in pictures and stories. SpeedoDad Hooray!!!
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Awesome pictures! Great attention to detail, Cheng! :hatoff:
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thanks evryone!
...a custom nevertheless ;D
@conniefrere:
Shaka, the legendary and brilliant Zulu king who introduced formations and even distinctive names and insignia for each regiment? I will try to customise him ;D
That's the one, BB reminded me of him by mentioning the movie Zulu.
So when you customizing you might listen to this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdk3X_bMvaU&feature=fvst)
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thanks again everyone :love:
...So when you customizing you might listen to this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdk3X_bMvaU&feature=fvst)
thanks conniefrere! I think I will watch (I've never watched it :P) the movie too for more inspiration...then i might end up buying another 20 zulus (I've more beef eaters on another shelf)
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You never watched Zulu? :o
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You never watched Zulu? :o
nope BB, I didnt even know there was such a movie....and now thanks to conniefrere last 'prompting', I'll have to watch it and I'm sure it will have an effect on my customs display (I've just squeezed them all back into my narrow shelves :P)
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Yeah, it's a really old movie -- 1964, i think. It's one of my dad's favorites and I've seen it dozens of times, from a young age. I was thoroughly traumatized by it as a kid. :lol:
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hey bb!
you still sat through them dozens of times, :o 8} ::)
not while you were still a traumatized kid, right? (otherwise the police will have to re-examine all those very old unsolved killings where you lived :lol:)
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:lol: Yep, I sat through it at various stages of my childhood, hiding my face during the scary parts, or busying myself playing with toys so I wouldn't see it. Honestly, I haven't watched the whole thing in so many years, there are probably still parts I've never actually seen, without hiding my eyes. I think I'm going to have to find it and see it again. I love the end, quite... touching, I guess you could say.
Oh, and no, it didn't make a serial killer out of me. :lol: I'm reasonably well-adjusted I suppose. Except for spending too much time on playmobil forums. :P
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as a kid, i used to watch scary movies through the gaps of my fingers, which narrowed at the right time :lol:
hearing all this...now I must watch this Zulu even sooner...I hope it ends at the Rorke's Drift...old movies almost always end well one way or another ;)
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Yeah, that was about how I watched scary movies, or sometimes trying to see through the gaps in my mom's fingers, when I was really little. :lol:
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thanks again everyone :love:
thanks conniefrere! I think I will watch (I've never watched it :P) the movie too for more inspiration...then i might end up buying another 20 zulus (I've more beef eaters on another shelf)
The movie I mean is not the movie BB means. I mean the miniseries from end 80's see this link (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086798/) and the song I attached in my post was from this miniseries
Yeah, it's a really old movie -- 1964, i think. It's one of my dad's favorites and I've seen it dozens of times, from a young age. I was thoroughly traumatized by it as a kid. :lol:
BB means this movie see link (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058777/)
And this one I now have to see too ofcourse :lol: :lol:
:wave:
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I mean the miniseries from end 80's see this link (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086798/) and the song I attached in my post was from this miniseries
I saw that because of Roy Dotrice :love:- didn't much like it.
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Great scene and figures Cheng, I envy you for those great British troops! ;D (Are the Pith helmets custom? Also, where did you get the green cuffs from, I've been looking all over the place for them.)
Love the recurrent SpeedoDad theme aswell. :)
As far as movies go, I believe there's Zulu Dawn (About the battle of Isandlwana) and Zulu (battle of Rorke's Drift, I've seen this one again recently). Both can be watched on Youtube I believe. I'd have to look for that series though. And of course there's also the great sketch by Monty Python about the Zulu war. ;D
(I've been singing the main theme from Zulu for quite a while now)
Men of Harlech, on to glory!
This will ever be your story!
Keep these burning words before yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee:
Welshman will not yield! :D
(Mind though that this song wasn't sung at Rorke's Drift and that the company included only a few Welshmen.)
Gaetano
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thanks everyone! yes, I was quite overwhelmed when I found that there were several Zulu movies/tv shows but I will start with the oldest movie first (and will wonder at which scenes BB was peering thorugh her mum's hands...BB can you give your mum a call today and tell her Cheng asked? :P)
...Are the Pith helmets custom? Also, where did you get the green cuffs from.....
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Men of Harlech, on to glory!
This will ever be your story!
Keep these burning words before yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee:
Welshman will not yield! :D
I might also start humming this tune for the next fews days after watching it too :lol:
btw, the 2 pith helmets are casted by another collector,
as for the green cuffs, I bought them from DS many years back...either US or German DS...30 07 8320
Trumpeter's cuffs....but I reshaped 2 pairs :P ...I thought I've seen new cuffs (like the gold 'V' shaped ones in red and hope someday they'll make green ones too)
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thanks everyone! yes, I was quite overwhelmed when I found that there were several Zulu movies/tv shows but I will start with the oldest movie first (and will wonder at which scenes BB was peering thorugh her mum's hands...BB can you give your mum a call today and tell her Cheng asked? :P)
Yep, definitely start with that one. It was quite a production for its day. It was filmed in South Africa, and actual Zulu tribesman were hired to play the Zulus in the film. In fact, the man who played King Cetywayo was the real King Cetywayo's great-grandson, the chief of the Zulu nation, and had a strong family resemblance. In fact many of the extras in the movie were descendants of actual warriors who fought in the battle. The ending is a little bit embellished from what happened in real life, but dramatic.
As to where I was hiding my eyes... I think you'll know! If you look at it from a kid's perspective, at least, and not from a sixties-special-effects point of view.
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WOW! I love SpeedoDad's hair. :)9
I have read quite a bit about the battle of Rorke's Drift,
and the Zulu campaigns as a whole.
Did you know that the officers in ZuluLand were told to regard the Zulu infantry as cavalry,
Because they could move so quickly.
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I've just managed to watch the start of MGM's 1964 Zulu....perhaps BB peered through her mum's hands at those lines of dancing maidens....not because of the little spears they were carrying (it would have been censored here ;D)
WOW! I love SpeedoDad's hair. :)9
....Did you know that the officers in ZuluLand were told to regard the Zulu infantry as cavalry,
Because they could move so quickly.
WoT...you meant SpeedoDad's facial hair? you could make it out at that angle?! ;)
very interesting WoT!
(back then there were no 'Michael Jordans', otherwise those officers would have been warned to regard the Zulu infantry as the air force :lol:)
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I've just managed to watch the start of MGM's 1964 Zulu....perhaps BB peered through her mum's hands at those lines of dancing maidens....not because of the little spears they were carrying (it would have been censored here ;D)
:lol: Yeah, that stuff is censored on American TV.
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WoT...you meant SpeedoDad's facial hair? you could make it out at that angle?! ;)
very interesting WoT!
I can sense good looking facial hair. :lol:
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back then there were no 'Michael Jordans', otherwise those officers would have been warned to regard the Zulu infantry as the air force :lol:
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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here's a clearer view WoT, hope speedoDad's new facial hair doesnt look worse than you imagined ;D
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here's a clearer view WoT, hope speedoDad's new facial hair doesnt look worse than you imagined ;D
Seeing him this way frontface, I have to say, don't mind me saying it, but,mhe looks like someone from the village people. I wonder ... A police hat might do trick :giggle:
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Wow, that's some interessting facial hair. Looks like he needs a trim.
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Excellent! :wow:
If I ever start this period, I hope you wont mind me copying you? :)
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Excellent! :wow:
If I ever start this period, I hope you wont mind me copying you? :)
WoT...I'll be only be too happy to see more Zulus and Red coats here :)
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hey PFs!
I've finished watching ther 1964 "Zulu"
as with good movies I'm always sad when it ends and want more (so I might make a custom called "Zulu, the sequel 1965" ;D)
what I notice (after years of exposure to gory and bloody scenes in tv and movies) a lot is that when a Zulu or Redcoat was speared/bayonetted, they just go limp and drop (without the usual death cries or squirting blood or dramatic dying process ;D)
one question, was it true that the Zulus saluted the heroic defenders before they left? and didnt they pick up their dead for a proper burial or let their young/new wives see them for the last time?
and here's the facial hair I was thinking of, WoT
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Don't know if they came back for their dead or not, but no the salute did not really happen. A few warriors appeared on the ridge the next morning and just looked without attacking, but there wasn't a dramatic salute. It sure makes a good story, though. ;D I just re-watched it on youtube three or four days ago. Not nearly as scary now as it seemed when I was a kid!
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This is a superb use of SpeedoDad, Cheng and your diorama looks excellent! It's always great to see Zulu War dioramas. Thanks for creating it and sharing it with us. :)