Friday 15 January 2016

From GillesW - Welcome back to the Circus! 15mm Carthaginian Elephants (67 Points)

Hello everyone.  In my last submission, some of you spoke  about carthaginian elephants on the comments.  I'm weak and very easy to influence, so I went in my Circus ( the Lead pile ) and I prepped, converted, undercoated some beast for the parade of this Friday.

The figures are from a variety of ranges, such as Old Glory, Covus Belli and Essex.  I have tried to note the ranges where I can.  I changed the heads of the Corvus Belli figures because I don't like the heads with separate ears.

I hope you will like them.

The "circus" on the move - are those Romans up there?
This figures is from Corvus Belli, but the head is Essex miniatures
An Old Glory figure
This features another combo of Corvus Belli and Essex head.  The archer is also from Essex, and the man with javelin is from Old Glory.

An Essex Miniatures elephant converted - the back has been filed to fir the howda
The elephant is from Alain Touller figures - the fellow with the javelin is from Corvus Belli, and he is joined by a lybio-phoenician from Essex


A good circus always need to have some clowns, I have painted few staff slingers for a side project and some Sardinian archers for my "second life" project to do the task of amusing the crowd.




stay tuned, more will come soon....

Eléphants - la terreur de l' ancien champ de bataille! Bien fait encore Mr. Gilles! Another very cool ancients submission.  I'm mostly a sci-fi and modern geek, but I envy you guys and girls doing ancients because the stuff looks so cool, and you obviously know your history! I can picture those elephants running down some hapless Roman soldiers, or perhaps simply running amok among their own forces - either way, a lot of fun on the gaming table.


Another great entry Gilles.  I'm sympathetic to anyone who will go convert and paint a bunch of stuff on the whim of some comments (I know what you mean!) and the work going into these elephants, with the wide array of figures and good conversions, is very impressive - and that's before the brush work! Since elephants seemed to be the tanks of the ancient world, we'll score them as vehicles, and I will include a few extra points for the conversion work - for 67 points all together.  Looking forward to next week's submission!

22 comments:

  1. Cracking work Gilles! I love the conversions you did to get the different howdahs and crew. Well done.

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  2. Love the elephants and slingers and archers are great too love the Colors you picked

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  3. Great looking elephants and fab conversions

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  4. Who doesn't love glamorous Nellies? Nice work Gilles :)

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  5. Good Hephalumps and assorted foot. Now go and kick some Roman Arse!

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  6. Perfect little works of art! Lovely, thanks for sharing! :D

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  7. Great looking Pachyderms Gilles. Love teh conversion work and swapping of parts.
    Cheers, Peter

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  8. Great conversion work Gilles, and excellent looking nellies!

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  9. I always like a nice elephant, and You sir, have a gaggle of nice elephants there.

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  10. Great painting work! Really nice small models.

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  11. Fabulous .. Elephants should always score double points!

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  12. The colours on these are very good indeed, a joy to behold!

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  13. I really like these, I thought they were 28's on first looking at the pictures!

    Ian

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  14. Wonderful conversion work Gilles! I'd like to see a fleet of converted triremes now please (hint, hint)...

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  15. Fantastic work on these! Always loved the idea of elephants of fielding a well sized force of elephants and yours definitely look the part.

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  16. Very Nice and who doesn't like a bunch of elies!

    Christopher

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  17. I love those howdahs! Great work on them and the infantry entourage too!

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  18. Lovely pachyderms and basing!

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  19. Beautifully done - that iconography is lovely!

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  20. thanks everyone!

    there will be no night boat to cairo for the moment;-)

    I have too much lead undercoated as well as too much half painted figures on the paint desk , now I must make room very quickly!
    be seeing you;-)

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  21. Nice pachyderms. I love the blanket details, good conversions too.

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  22. So what do you call the pinkish substance between the toes of an elephant? Slow-moving Romans!
    ; )
    So sue me, I'm a granddad, I'm allowed to make dad jokes...

    Great work, Gilles, I always like to see an elephant or four on the tabletop!

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