Preview: Rorke’s Drift Box Art

Last week we unveiled our superb new Rorke’s Drift sets. They certainly seem to have hit the spot with pre-orders flooding in. Next week we’ll be showing off loads more goodies as well as bringing you pre-orders for the Married Zulu plastic boxed set and showing off our painted Unmarried Zulu regiment.

Until then we have the small matter of our Rorke’s Drift box artwork from none other than Peter ‘The Count’ Dennis. Feast your eyes on this (it’ll make a great desktop wallpaper…):

Now we’ve got you feeling all unnecessary we should remind you of the welter of new releases we (hand-in-hand with Empress Miniatures) have in store for you over the next few weeks…

Rorke’s Drift boxed set

• Laser-cut wooden Hospital building with ‘teddy bear fur’ thatch.

• Laser-cut wooden Storehouse building with ‘teddy bear fur’ thatch.

• Resin Wagon Barricade

• Resin stone wall Kraal (4 x 6″ sections)

• Resin biscuit box barricades (2 x 6″ sections)

• Resin biscuit box/mealie-bag barricades (3 x 6″ sections)

• Resin mealie-bag barricades (3 x 6″ sections)

• 20 plastic multi-pose British Line Infantry

• 40 plastic multi-pose Married Zulus

• Metal mounted Zulu InDuna

• Metal Zulu in British jacket firing Martini-Henry rifle

• British characters: Lieutenant Chard (Royal Engineers), Lieutenant Bromhead, Colour Sergeant Bourne and Private Hook.

Also included are several finely sculpted resin barricades. These are a mixture of biscuit boxes and mealie-bags and again we’ve drawn on eye-witness accounts and expert opinion to ensure we bring you an historically accurate rendition of the battlefield. A focal point of the defence were the barricaded wagons and we include this in the set also. The final resin components provide you with the stone wall Kraal.

Of course, you’ll need miniatures to fight over this amazing terrain and we include 20 of our brand new plastic multi-pose British Line Infantry and 40 of our new plastic multi-pose Married Zulu figures. The British are led by historical representations of the legendary Chard, Bromhead, Bourne and Hook whilst their Zulu counterparts are led by a mounted InDuna and there is also a metal Zulu wearing a looted British redcoat and firing a Martini-Henry rifle! The metal figures are all supplied by Empress Miniatures.

You can pre-order this set now for £150. The resin components will be made available separately in the New Year some time but you save £52 against buying the contents of the box separately.

Estimated release is week commencing 5th December – earlier if we can!

** Due to the sheer amount of awesomeness crammed into these two large sets of Anglo Zulu War goodness the weight makes shipping them out very pricey for us. So, we’ve had to increase the shipping costs to customers outside of the UK – select the relevant option in the dropdown menu in the webstore **

Horns of the Buffalo – Rorke’s Drift Collectors Set

The contents of the Rorke’s Drift set as outlined above plus:

• 5 extra resin mealie-bag barricades

• 1 extra resin biscuit box barricade

• 4 extra biscuit box/mealie-bag barricades

• 1 extra resin wagon barricade

• 2 extra lengths of resin walls

• Resin broken down walls (6 x 6″ sections)

• Resin mealie-bag redoubt (2 x 3″ x 6″ sections making a 6″ square redoubt)

• Engineers wagon

• Water cart

• 6 plastic fences (3″ sections)

• 4 x plastic bell tents

• Resin Cookhouse

• 6 metal African cattle

• 3 x resin ovens

• Resin Water Closet

• 1 x metal dead horse

• 1 x dog (Pip the terrier)

• British characters based on the film ‘Zulu’: Chard, Bromhead, Bourne and Hook (all made by Empress Miniatures).

The ‘Horns of the Buffalo’ collectors set includes the Rorke’s Drift boxed set and builds on it with even more Anglo Zulu War goodies! In addition to more barricades and walls we also include broken down walls to represent the second Kraal. Also included is one of the key features of the defence of Rorke’s Drift – the mealie-bag redoubt!

Plastic Bell tents and wooden fencing lends more weight to this being a military encampment. For added flavour of a working settlement we have several metal animals in this set – 6 African cattle, a dead metal horse and, of course, a dog (Pip the Terrier).

You can pre-order this set for £275. This saves you 88.50 on buying the components separately!  Estimated release will be week commencing 5th December

Place your pre-order today so as not to miss out on these outstanding terrain sets!

** Due to the sheer amount of awesomeness crammed into these two large sets of Anglo Zulu War goodness the weight makes shipping them out very pricey for us. So, we’ve had to increase the shipping costs to customers outside of the UK – select the relevant option in the dropdown menu in the webstore **

Plastic Unmarried Zulus
The first of our Anglo Zulu War plastic boxed sets, the Unmarried Zulus add a certain panache to the ranks of Cetshwayo’s armies. Wearing ornate headresses, cow tails leg and arm adornments and an eagerness to ‘wash their spears’ in the enemy they provide the British forces with a very real threat.

This set contains 32 multi-pose plastic Unmarried Zulus, a background leaflet and an Empress Miniatures metal InDuna to help focus their energy.

You can pre-order this superb set here.

Like the Unmarried Zulus this boxed set will contain 32 multi-pose plastic Zulu warriors and an Empress Miniatures  metal InDuna as well as a background leaflet. We’ll be opening pre-orders, and showing the models off, next week!

All of these exciting products are brought to you by the Warlord/Empress partnership and are available from both companies.