Fantastic work on those guts! Interesting to see it alongside the Italian, as it would appear to be scaled to be a genuine forest elephant and not the Indian/African Plains-sized ones you usually get.
"And I thought they smelt bad on the outside!". I hope you got your gloss varnish ready for all those glistening entrails. Very well done as ever, I look forward to seeing them in action.
Thanks Doc! I am indeed planning to have them pincushioned with arrows and spears...
19 January 2010 at 08:30
I've started work on the casualty figures for the Zama game. I'm going to paint the elephants (except for the ones I've sent to friends to paint), and later, when I have enough of the infantry casualties prepped, I'll send them to Greg to paint.
Each elephant will be a bit different; the first has a victorious Aventine Italian on it:
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Close this window Jump to comment formAmazing stuff, as usual.
14 January 2010 at 12:56
Thanks! I need the weather to let up so that I can prime them.
Simon
14 January 2010 at 12:57
Very nice - if we can locate some genereic dead then i'll chip in and do some casualty bases for the game too...
14 January 2010 at 13:19
Fantastic work on those guts!
Interesting to see it alongside the Italian, as it would appear to be scaled to be a genuine forest elephant and not the Indian/African Plains-sized ones you usually get.
14 January 2010 at 13:36
He is indeed a puny little Forest elephant! Now we need someone to make a puny little live one.
14 January 2010 at 13:42
wow all these casualty markers. Are you expecting a victory? :)
14 January 2010 at 13:49
Hi ACG, I'm mostly expecting a lot of bloodshed...
14 January 2010 at 13:53
Epic
Keep it up :)
14 January 2010 at 13:58
That gutted elephant is truly gruesome! Well done!
14 January 2010 at 14:56
AJ, sadly I must confess that I have already researched the colour of elephant intestines.
14 January 2010 at 15:00
Hi Simon, you're pulling way ahead of our lot! Very nice work.
Paul
14 January 2010 at 16:52
Hi Paul, well we are still 240 legioanries short (let alone the boards and other stuff); there is no room for complacency!
14 January 2010 at 17:07
These are well excellent. I'm looking forwward to seeing them all painted up.
Best wishes
Giles
14 January 2010 at 17:09
"And I thought they smelt bad on the outside!". I hope you got your gloss varnish ready for all those glistening entrails. Very well done as ever, I look forward to seeing them in action.
14 January 2010 at 18:08
Hi Secundus; can a corpse be "in action"? ;-)
14 January 2010 at 18:46
Zombie elephants?
14 January 2010 at 18:55
They are more dead than undead, Consul. :-)
I should suggest a range of undead elephants to Aventine, they seem to have most other elephants covered.
14 January 2010 at 19:12
Dead elephants and elephant guts.
Nice.
Should stick a few arrows in 'em like those dead Mumaks in LOTR.
Even nicer.
Great blog BTW.
Cheers,
Doc
http://docsartofwar.blogspot.com/
19 January 2010 at 06:57
Thanks Doc! I am indeed planning to have them pincushioned with arrows and spears...
19 January 2010 at 08:30