Carthaginian Elephants

[jdeleonardis]

Wow - Im totally floored by how cool these 10mm figures are.  There isnt enough time in my day to paint more!!!


This one has a slight modification - the archer





Thanks for looking!

[Techno]

GREAT JOB !! J.

Cheers - Phil

[Hertsblue]

Oh, yes, they're the business. 

[Leon]

These look excellent, really nicely done!  First painted hefferlumps I've seen from the new Carthaginians as well!

[Ben Waterhouse]

those are jolly pachyderms !

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Look great! 
One hint, give the ele's a very thin light brown wash for different shade of mud over the trunkie as they roll in it to keep off parasites! Plus it will pick out skin details.

[J.S.]

Great work!
I am also extremly tempted by the Carthaginian range, but those elephants are at the moment the best part of it. I've written my thoughts on that in the Carthaginian thread in the "Requests" section.

[GordonY]

Yeah looking cool, apart from the usual complaint, heffalumps arent actually grey.

[Ben Waterhouse]

Yeah looking cool, apart from the usual complaint, heffalumps arent actually grey.

I never knew that! Every day is a school day.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

They're pink with tiny brown dapple spots around their ears, eyes and mouths...
Then they roll around in mud/dustto cover up, it stops parasites and sunburn! Intellegent creatures, breaking out the spf factor 50 early!

[Rubicon]

Nice looking elephants! I've painted dozens of 15mm elephants for various Indian armies over the years and found GW's Charandon Granite, a greyishy brown, to be a good base. this looked good enough with a couple of lighter highlights and a magic wash. To break up the large single coloured expanse I painted on flesh coloured areas of de-pigmentation around the eyes, on the ears and down the front of the trunk - easy to do, and individualised each of the elephants. You can see some in the pic below..


 

[Techno]

Re Lemmey's comment....I'm not going to bother using sun block this year.....Probably WD 40 instead...Hopefully stop me getting any rustier 
Cheers - Phil.

[General Bt Sherman]

Very nice! Every battle should have war elephants.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Very nice! Every battle should have war elephants.

No cammels disguised as elephants....

IanS

[Hertsblue]

Re Lemmey's comment....I'm not going to bother using sun block this year.....Probably WD 40 instead...Hopefully stop me getting any rustier 
Cheers - Phil.

I always understood that used sump-oil was ideal as sunblock. Something to do with the metal particles in suspension, I believe.