More 28mm Warlord Games Colonials - British and Natal Natives

I've just come to the end of a Zulu Wars / Colonial commission, and the miniatures are now safely on their way to Greece.  I've already posted some of the Natal Natives, but I thought some people might like to see the whole unit;

You get 32 plastic miniatures in the kit, making a nice imposing mass of troops.  I find there's not as much variety in Warlord kits as you'd get with some of the other major plastics manufacturers (particularly Perry / Fireforge / Wargames Factory), and the way the arms attach is sometimes fiddly / odd... but there's no denying they produce some superbly characterful models.  And these are no exception - my photography doesn't really capture it well, but the heads have some great expressions; fatigue, ferocity, trepidation, some even capture that groan that comes with physical exertion when past 40 (I'm familiar with it...).

Not sure why I've chosen to photograph these at this odd angle, but it was about 5am so I wasn't at my sharpest.  These are the two European officers for the Natal Native unit, and two mounted British officers.  The Natal officers are painted very similarly to the Boers in my earlier post, but with more royal blue in there - to help tie them into a British force without making them too uniformed.  As they stand, they could easily be used for extra Boers too.  The British officers are painted as requested - one in traditional red jacket / blue trousers, and the other in all blue.  Equipment in both cases is mostly white, with black riding boots.  The Natal officers, by contrast, use the same sand-coloured equipment as the Boers.

Blurry overhead shot of the Natal unit, taken as an afterthought.  The models are separate from their bases, for casualty removal, but are also provided with six- or four-man bases, so the unit can be either used in its entirety (as above), or split into two units of 16 (2 six-bases and a four); or maybe to allow a patrol of six or eight to peel off.