This is what I like about our hobby; people can take different spins/takes on the same event with similar pieces. Robin's excellent diorama looks to be a few hours ahead of mines with the first rushing of the hospital ocurring. A few details that caught my eye:
1) the most elaberote kraal for a RD diorama - never mind actual cattle (maybe an ode to the movie?) and a trough no less - Simply WoW
2) the wagon next to the kraal could have been Lt Chard's engineering wagon from the day before as they tried to fix the ponts for the column's supply line (would love for Britains to do a covered wagaon for Lt Chard and/or Isandlwana or a pont similar to Little Legions)
3) increased realism of using the incompete mealie bag barricades which also adds to the visual intensity of the struggle for the hospital
4) using two mounted izindunas (the prince and one unamed who is killed near the hospital per historians)
5) the green terrain is likely the most realistic option (also visually shows off the pieces better) as historians cite the slowness for the zulus to set fire to the roofs due to dampness from 3 days of rain. Also command later complains after the fact in their inability to clear the growth around the mission to create better firing lines as futher support for green.
6) others including ladder and turning over the wagons like the movie
Has anyone ever attempted or seen a pont crossing of the column over the buffalo river diorama?
