SpeedoDad at Rorke's Drift 1879

[tanotrooper]

Great scene and figures Cheng, I envy you for those great British troops! (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.

(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!

(Mind though that this song wasn't sung at Rorke's Drift and that the company included only a few Welshmen.)

Gaetano

[cheng]

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? )

...Are the Pith helmets custom? Also, where did you get the green cuffs from.....
.....
Men of Harlech, on to glory!
This will ever be your story!
Keep these burning words before yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee:
Welshman will not yield!

I might also start humming this tune for the next fews days after watching it too
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  ...I thought I've seen new cuffs (like the gold 'V' shaped ones in red and hope someday they'll make green ones too)

[bonniebeth]

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? )

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.

[WarriorOfToys]

WOW! I love SpeedoDad's hair.
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.

[cheng]

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 )

WOW! I love SpeedoDad's hair.
....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 )

[bonniebeth]

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 )

  Yeah, that stuff is censored on American TV.

[WarriorOfToys]

...
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.

...
back then there were no 'Michael Jordans', otherwise those officers would have been warned to regard the Zulu infantry as the air force
...

[cheng]

here's a clearer view WoT, hope speedoDad's new facial hair doesnt look worse than you imagined

[conniefrere]

here's a clearer view WoT, hope speedoDad's new facial hair doesnt look worse than you imagined

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

[bonniebeth]

Wow, that's some interessting facial hair. Looks like he needs a trim.