Stanley in Africa

[XbriX]

I'm back after some radio silence with more 1/72 scale plastics.
With this post I want to present to you a conversion based on an figure found in HaT 8268 Askari set, with some parts from Italeri 6050 Zulu Wars British Infantry set, depicting the legendary explorer Henry Morton Stanley. 





Above was roughly inspired by below photograph:


Stanley 1872, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Unfortunately, I could not find a suitable figure for Stanley's adopted son Kalulu, so I painted one of Hat 8269 Ruga-Ruga figures instead.

 It may also interest you that I created a new blog - https://xbrixsminiaturesreborn.blogspot.com/

Thanks for reading!

[PhilC]

Excellent conversion, and very convincing! I take note of your new blog and will update mine with a new link.
Regarding Kalulu, you might consider using the young boy from Airfix's Tarzan set. Or maybe have a look at some 15mm figures, but I have no knowledge in this scale.

[Rich W]

Great job on these two chaps!

[Peter]

Excellent work on these figures!