These are nice figs, but only after you cut off the immense amount of flash that they come with. The flash does not come in large flaps as with Airfix, but in narrow strips of mold line that run all around the figure. The flash is also in tight spaces, like between the poor guys' legs, and who wants to have surgery down there? The flash can be pretty difficult to remove.
However, once the flash is removed, these are very nice looking figures. The poses are not the most original, and another big detractor to the set is that there are only 8 poses, with 4 figures of each, for a grand (or not so grant) total of 32 figures. This is a smaller number than most other manufacturers put in their boxes. This is because A Call to Arms is a manufacturer that normally does 1/32 scale figures, and most of their 1/72 sets are scale-downs of their 1/32 sets. Thus, you don't get a whole lot of pose variety, or a whole lot of miniatures.
I would have preferred either the Esci set or the Hat set (of which there are a few, including a command set) but this was the only one that was easily available to me.
I painted these guys up using the well-known colors of the 24th Regiment of Foot. This regiment is the most famous of the Zulu Wars because it was the primary regiment at Rorke's Drift, and has been immortalized in the movie Zulu with Michael Caine.
The 24th's regimental color was green, and they wore this on their collar and cuffs. A picture of their uniform can be seen below.
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| This picture shows a corporal (right) and a private (left) of the 24th Regiment of Foot |
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| My Zulus attacking the 24th Infantry at Rorke's Drift |
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| Unfortunately, my "matte" varnish made these guys appear glossy, and I hate the toy soldier look. |
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| This is my corporal. His white chevrons are barely visible in this picture. |
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| Not a good time to be reloading, bud... |
