A funny thing happened on the way to the next campaign...
With no Cold Wars steering what needed to be painted, February was going to be a month of getting some significant lead (and plastic) off the painting table.
We were going to start with a massive project (for me) that's curtailed the vaporware Season 4 of the "Egypt Game" I've run with the girls since they were little. The first episode requires 30 "Nubian" warriors for *spoilers*.
A boxed set of Married Zulu Impi from Warlord fit the bill... and literally years have passed. They got assembled, primed, and base coated, however each one was missing its left arm... so I could paint everything the same and glue the arms on at the end.
This stayed this way until this month, where I lined them up on the painting bench, but the parts sprues to the side, and immediately discovered that none of the compatible left arms were attached to the sprue.
They are in a zip-lock bag, buried somewhere in the office.
So I managed to assemble two the Zulus, and they will hang out with the Zulu Chief I painted eons ago.
We're a little shinier than I wanted, and I shine detracts from the three layers of shading I did them, turning them far darker than I wanted. I strayed away from the suggested colors Pete the Wargamer suggested in his YouTube video on painting these guys.
Once I find 28 more left arms, I can take a crack at it again!In the Queue: The Zulus are still in a queue, as a search one box at a time for the missing bag o' arms. Gnomes, Ducks, and Star Wars individual characters!
Project 350: Maintaining exactly the same at 459 (295/164) from 459 (295/164). I'm hoping the upcoming Cold Wars at Home will move the needle a bit.
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