Thursday, 14 January 2010

Bring out yer Dead!

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:




The second is really gutted..
Below are two from Gripping Beast.


...and here are the first (of many) infantry casualties, mostly Etruscans kindly donated by Keith at Aventine, and lightly converted.

The first dead elephants (but not the GB ones) are available from Aventine, and profits will be donated to "Help for Heroes":

http://www.aventineminiatures.co.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=128&osCsid=f598b15086bef29d4dd842caabf32a84


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19 comments:

  1. Dogui14 January 2010 at 12:56

    Amazing stuff, as usual.

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  2. BigRedBat14 January 2010 at 12:57

    Thanks! I need the weather to let up so that I can prime them.

    Simon

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  3. Dr Simon14 January 2010 at 13:19

    Very nice - if we can locate some genereic dead then i'll chip in and do some casualty bases for the game too...

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  4. Donogh14 January 2010 at 13:36

    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.

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  5. BigRedBat14 January 2010 at 13:42

    He is indeed a puny little Forest elephant! Now we need someone to make a puny little live one.

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  6. Game Master Rob Adams14 January 2010 at 13:49

    wow all these casualty markers. Are you expecting a victory? :)

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  7. BigRedBat14 January 2010 at 13:53

    Hi ACG, I'm mostly expecting a lot of bloodshed...

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  8. Geordie an Exiled FoG14 January 2010 at 13:58

    Epic

    Keep it up :)

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  9. AJ (Allan) Wright14 January 2010 at 14:56

    That gutted elephant is truly gruesome! Well done!

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  10. BigRedBat14 January 2010 at 15:00

    AJ, sadly I must confess that I have already researched the colour of elephant intestines.

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  11. Caliban14 January 2010 at 16:52

    Hi Simon, you're pulling way ahead of our lot! Very nice work.

    Paul

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  12. BigRedBat14 January 2010 at 17:07

    Hi Paul, well we are still 240 legioanries short (let alone the boards and other stuff); there is no room for complacency!

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  13. Giles14 January 2010 at 17:09

    These are well excellent. I'm looking forwward to seeing them all painted up.

    Best wishes

    Giles

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  14. Secundus14 January 2010 at 18:08

    "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.

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  15. BigRedBat14 January 2010 at 18:46

    Hi Secundus; can a corpse be "in action"? ;-)

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  16. Consul14 January 2010 at 18:55

    Zombie elephants?

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  17. BigRedBat14 January 2010 at 19:12

    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.

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  18. Doc Smith19 January 2010 at 06:57

    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/

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  19. BigRedBat19 January 2010 at 08:30

    Thanks Doc! I am indeed planning to have them pincushioned with arrows and spears...

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