A Plethora of Pachiderms.
I have achieved two goals this week,one I've finished the Elephant model,two,following Government guidelines,I have been to Tesco for ESSENTIALS.........................
Phew,rum and coke and lemon slices-luxury to the palate!!
The elephant model I started earlier this week,is now finished-hurrah!
Early stages,and simple colour scheme(lazy!)-I decided to paint the Mahout in situ,in case I couldn't get him in place once the tower was put on.
Top photo shows tower stuck on,bottom photo should have a caption of"does my bum look big in this?"
Top photo shows the 4 figures supplied,but only 2 can fit into the tower,and I hate wasting things,so I added a shield to the spare javelin man,and included him on the base.
All finished! I took the following photo's to show my Successor-type elephants.............
11 Successors,12 Carthaginians plus 12 Indians-you can't have too many elephants!!!
In my last blog I mentioned my "Rumblebox"-here it is.........................
Unwanted,unloved,broken and discarded figures from as far back as the early 70's-thousands of 'em!!
Whilst "rumbling" through the box last night,I came across some Ancient Greeks,so just might paint up a small "vignette" of the Spartans last stand at Thermopylae-oh no not another project!!!!
I love Elephants me.
ReplyDeleteElephants are looking fine as is the rum!
ReplyDeleteAhoy MJT,Elephants last,Rum doesn't!!
Deletejohnc
Great work, lovely job.
ReplyDeleteAllan,thanks for very kind comment-I was going to put a "wash" on the elephant,but going on past experience,I would have ruined it!!
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He's a lovely elephant John, Im really going to have to get an ancient army that uses elephants. By the way just ordered from Amazon the Campaigns of Subattai? which bis a decent price on the site.
ReplyDeleteHi Robbie,hope you're a bit better now.
DeleteThe way we use elephants in our ancient games means,as in real life, they a "tad" unpredictable-leads to alot of rude words!
johnc
Could feed a family for a while Brian
ReplyDeleteReckon that leaves you 1 Successor elephant short ;-) thumbs up for the essentials. Cheers, Chris
ReplyDeleteChris,see my next blog for the "pains" that I had to go through just to get the "essentials"-Tesco is causing all the problems!!
Deletejohnc.
A bit like tiger tanks you should always have more than you can justifiably field!
ReplyDeleteHI Stryker-that made me smile,and,of course, you're right-which WW2 buff hasn't got too many Tigers???
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