and who could possibly resist glamorous nellies in their army? (OK, me so far, but that's only because the armies I've done didn't historically have any hephalumps)
Cyrus, at a quick count I now have 13 live elephants, and 11 dead ones. In the autumn, I'll paint the Indians...
21 May 2013 at 09:31
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Last night I completed basing the Ptolemaic Elephant Corp, for Raphia. Ptolemy deployed 73 of these African elephants in an attempt to counter the rather larger number of rather larger Seleucid Indians. Unfortunately he failed to put them through the elephant equivalent of assertiveness training, and most of them subsequently routed back, through his own forces. As usual, all photos are clickable.
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The magnificent beasts and crews are from Aventine's range. I painted the elephants, and my good friend Nick Speller, the crews (beautifully).
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Nick also painted the escorting Cretan and NeoCretan archers, who are a mixture of Foundry and Gorgon miniatures. You may be able to see that they are in several different shades of red. In the game these will form 5 units, each of one elephant and two stands of escorts.
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Close this window Jump to comment formAn impressive phalanx of Pachyderms. Untrained or not I wouldn't want to be an infantryman facing that lot!
Very nice work, btw.
20 May 2013 at 15:47
very nice work indeed
and who could possibly resist glamorous nellies in their army?
(OK, me so far, but that's only because the armies I've done didn't historically have any hephalumps)
20 May 2013 at 16:20
Thanks Lee!
Tamsin, ditch those armies! Go Indian, or Burmese, instead...
20 May 2013 at 16:24
Absolutely fabulous painting an basing on these troops. Best, Dean
20 May 2013 at 16:26
Very impressive!
Phil.
20 May 2013 at 18:12
Wow, what an excellent collection! I'm so jealous, so many elephants!!!
20 May 2013 at 18:55
Heffalumps! The sheer amount of material you've produced for this is astonishing.
FMB
20 May 2013 at 19:11
I love it when a plan comes together... :-)
20 May 2013 at 19:16
Very cool! Welcome to the Elephantarchs club.
Regards HGA.
20 May 2013 at 19:41
Absolutely AWESOME!
20 May 2013 at 19:56
Very impressive paint job. Bases particularly good.
20 May 2013 at 20:07
Fantastic Ptolemaic elephants and Cretan escorts Simon! You can never enough elephants...
21 May 2013 at 08:28
Many thanks all!
Cyrus, at a quick count I now have 13 live elephants, and 11 dead ones. In the autumn, I'll paint the Indians...
21 May 2013 at 09:31