In the margins of the recent SELWG show in Picketts Lock a well-padded BHGS Teams event took place with sets of three players contesting ADLG glory in three well-themed pools - including Maximum Elephants!
22 Nov 2022
Elephants Sir! Faarsands of 'em!
15 Sept 2022
3D Printed Elephant & Metal Crew
I've just finished painting up a 28mm elephant printed by Disain Studio ( https://disainstudio.com/ ), which I bought from them at Britcon, and then added to it a metal crew from Aventine Miniatures.
The pikeman has an "extended" waist as I used 2 thin rare earth magnets to fasten his legs and torso together - partly so he can be removed for transit and storage, and partly as he looked a little stubby.
The elephant (I think) looks far better than most 28mm "wargames" elephants out there, although I have high hopes for the Victric hard plastic one which I'll make eventually.
The paint job on the elephant is a standard black undercoat with progressively lighter grey drybrushing. I missed a couple of minor casting (printing?) lines just behind the head, which really I should have sanded away, and so had to paint them out using paint as a filler to make them go away - I don't think they show unless you are looking for them.
The shield pattern is an LBMS Thracian shield, as the ones I have for some Victrix pikemen and hoplites are way too big for this Aventine crewman. I did also have to bend the Indian mahout's legs a little with pliers to make him fit.
The whole thing is based on a 60x60mm mdf base, with stained and drybrushed builders sand, and a couple of bamboo plants from a Chinese eBay purchase.
30 Mar 2022
Burton Doubles - Is it now safe to sit quite that close ?
The UK L'Art e la Guerre circuit continued its return to full-effect with the 2022 edition of the near-legendary Burton Doubles taking place in the traditional; Town Hall venue in February, and of course a rather haphazarly assembled Khurasanian army was there to partake of all of the glory that the home of British Brewing has to offer.
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2 Feb 2022
A fistful of ... Elephants?
A quick bit of just-finished painting today, in the shape of 3 fully-padded-out armoured elephants.
I believe the two outrider ones are Museum, and the one in the middle looks like a Minifigs casting to me.
14 Dec 2020
Here's those Arabs... for the last time (for a while)
Yep, finally the mega-project is done and dusted. Or, matt varnished more accurately.
That means an "all options" ADLG Generic Arab Dynasties army in 25/8mm plastic and metal is now ready to be used, whenever that may be.
Here are the final set of full-army photos;
13 Oct 2015
Random dents in the painting pile
The rather random mix of "done" is presented for you here:
Here are a couple of sadly now discontinued elephants from Corvus Belli. My "Greek and Roman" elephants from Essex had gotten a bit aged and sad, and so when these came up at a fire-sale discount a year or so ago I jumped in to pick some up. Their predecessors may well be on sale in the Bring and Buy at Warfare I suspect...
A simple paint job, dry-brushing over black
I also picked up two Carthaginian elephants without howdahs - having never really had any like this before other than the odd one from Xyston, which is now a Generals element
And now for something totally different - a load of baggage and cargo, for obstacles for Malifaux to make my town look a little more lived-in
This is a mix of bits of barricade and luggage from Andy at Ainsty Castings and others. Some are multi-item castings, but at the back I have glued a few individual boxes together as well.
All of these should be clickable as larger photos