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Title: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 17, 2020, 11:04:15 AM
https://wilgut.blogspot.com/ (https://wilgut.blogspot.com/)]

Hi lovely Lead Adventurers!
This is my First post , recent interest in this article I wrote for my blog made me think that maybe some folks here might like to have a look


Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: PhilB on June 17, 2020, 12:14:16 PM
They look great! And the conversions in pose of the original elephants worked very.
Why not post a teaser photo here to the forum, and include a link to your blog?
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 17, 2020, 12:30:43 PM
that's a great idea thank you, now How do I post a photo? i can see "attach photo"  but I am darned if I can make it work
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: AzSteven on June 17, 2020, 04:40:36 PM
Your elephant conversions came out great - very inspiring!
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Baconfat on June 21, 2020, 08:20:48 PM
What models do you use as your Southron?

The scarlet uniforms and pointed helmets are terrific looking.
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: OSHIROmodels on June 21, 2020, 09:03:22 PM
Nice  :)
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on June 22, 2020, 12:39:32 AM
Great to see you posting here mate!
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 22, 2020, 07:05:59 AM
Your elephant conversions came out great - very inspiring!

Thank you
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 22, 2020, 07:27:05 AM
What models do you use as your Southron?

The scarlet uniforms and pointed helmets are terrific looking.

They are all kit-bashed. The heavy Haradrim infantry with spear and shield are Frostgrave Byzantine infantry . I cut the strange, presumably Byzantine, leg guards into greaves and used round shields with a green stuff spike. 

The Easterlings have the bodies of Victrix WoC , I liked the Triarri style chain mail as it looks markedly different to the full shirt of most Dark Ages mail. The helmets are Victrix Warriors of Carthage Liby-Phoenician style. The heads are from various sources , the axes are scratch built from brass wire and green stuff
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: PhilB on June 22, 2020, 09:17:38 AM
A fantastic army! Lovely work on those shields.
The oliphants are wonderful, and really dwarf the guys standing around at their feet.
The eyes in the closeup pics seem a little on the large side, but eyes are always so fiddly.
Great work!
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: scatterbrains on June 22, 2020, 09:52:51 AM
Thats pretty much legendary from my point of view ...

What inspired you for the shield designs?
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 22, 2020, 12:22:49 PM
Thats pretty much legendary from my point of view ...

What inspired you for the shield designs?

Thank you! Well Tolkien writes of yellow and black shields, so that decided the colour. Geometric designs seemed a natural choice somehow, probably easiest I guess.I decided to make them all different as a kind of heradlry. I used different designs for other elements of the army. Desert creatures for the Jakhala and images of the Grakhuul for the Ubhadi. The great thing about this army is so little is written you can really use your imagination.
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: AKULA on June 22, 2020, 12:24:11 PM
Great choice of figures/ conversions & colour schemes

  8)
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 22, 2020, 12:25:16 PM
A fantastic army! Lovely work on those shields.
The oliphants are wonderful, and really dwarf the guys standing around at their feet.
The eyes in the closeup pics seem a little on the large side, but eyes are always so fiddly.
Great work!

Thanks Phil. These are the first eyes I have painted , I think with practice,  I am better now
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 22, 2020, 12:32:18 PM
https://wilgut.blogspot.com/2020/02/blog-post.html
here are the profiles for my army of the Southron Empire, my take on the Haradrim
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: PhilB on June 22, 2020, 01:39:12 PM
I'm sure many folks are far better at eyes than I am. But here's the trick I learned, after disappointing results: after painting the eyes, I go back in with flesh tone paint to cover up anything that got too big on the first go. That way I don't have to be as exacting on the first pass. I've just done up a couple dozen dwarves, about 20mm tall, and their eyes are tiny!
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on June 22, 2020, 02:16:58 PM
Ah, now that is a pdf I can access. I recall seeing it before but Aretha time I forgot to save it or print it out. I will rectify that mistake. Thanks again for continuing to inspire mate!
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 22, 2020, 04:02:55 PM
Ah, now that is a pdf I can access. I recall seeing it before but Aretha time I forgot to save it or print it out. I will rectify that mistake. Thanks again for continuing to inspire mate!
no worries, it cuts both ways! It was your decision to start a blog that made me decide to start one of my own!
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 24, 2020, 09:09:04 AM
some pics of the crew! mostly made from Gripping Beast Arab heavy cavalry torsoes, GW Corsair legs and occassional GW Warriors of Rohan with heads from GB Arab heavy and light cavalry
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: PhilB on June 24, 2020, 09:30:04 AM
Looking good! The active crew really makes this model come alive.

On the top level, do you actually have a spear held in midair on a wire, as if the guy had just thrown it? Brilliant work!
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 24, 2020, 12:06:12 PM
Looking good! The active crew really makes this model come alive.

On the top level, do you actually have a spear held in midair on a wire, as if the guy had just thrown it? Brilliant work!
Thank you, he's another kit bash the hand is from a Gripping Beast Arab Cavalry man who has just released an arrow. I bored out the javelin(cut from a spear) with a 0.3mm pin drill, did the same to the hand and threaded a length of 9 guage guitar string into both. 
Here is a pic of all the crews deployed as an infantry unit
https://wilgut.blogspot.com/
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 28, 2020, 08:23:43 AM
Some more pics of me mumaks!
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Onebigriver on June 28, 2020, 03:34:50 PM
Amazing project!
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Sir Barnaby Hammond-Rye on June 28, 2020, 07:55:13 PM
The army looks great. Especially like the beetle and serpent banners, and that was a good eye to spot the Byzantines would work so well!  :-*

Also: the banner pic on your blog is fantastic! Wow!  Guys, is this eye-catching or what?

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MxDxa_m5ZuE/XcaiY7gFM_I/AAAAAAAANnc/w9CKhfcWXSIUSQ4F82IUttWpOMIAwR_IQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/blog11.jpg)
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 29, 2020, 06:17:11 AM
Amazing project!
Thank you
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 29, 2020, 06:43:19 AM
The army looks great. Especially like the beetle and serpent banners, and that was a good eye to spot the Byzantines would work so well!  :-*

Also: the banner pic on your blog is fantastic! Wow!  Guys, is this eye-catching or what?

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MxDxa_m5ZuE/XcaiY7gFM_I/AAAAAAAANnc/w9CKhfcWXSIUSQ4F82IUttWpOMIAwR_IQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/blog11.jpg)

Thank you. I had no plan to build this army, but once I had started, it was difficult to stop. I can see a place for some suitably converted Numidian cavalry and some more heavy cavalry, I am waiting on Fireforge Byzantine Cataphracts!

I think Orcs next tho, I have already created a "war beast" from a toy rhinocerous and a toy dinosaur, its a Rhinosaurus!

Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on June 29, 2020, 08:07:51 AM
Great warbeast!

And I am looking forward to seeing that cavalry.
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Captain Blood on June 29, 2020, 09:07:33 AM
Good work  8)

Feels much truer to Tolkien than the (admittedly spectacular) versions of both the creatures and the Haradrim portrayed in the Jackson LOTR movies.
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on June 29, 2020, 01:04:19 PM
Good work  8)

Feels much truer to Tolkien than the (admittedly spectacular) versions of both the creatures and the Haradrim portrayed in the Jackson LOTR movies.
Thank you! That was the aim .Each to their own and everyone has their own vision in their head when they are reading LOTR, but Jacksons ideas are far from mine. This was such a fun project, Orcs next!
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on July 01, 2020, 08:03:53 AM
Here are some Haradrim
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on July 01, 2020, 11:21:42 AM
Lovin' it!
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on July 01, 2020, 11:51:53 AM
Lovin' it!
Rick, you may be able to answer this, why can I see your signature on your posts, but I can not see my signature on mine? When I check my profile its there but it's not appearing on any posts
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: AKULA on July 01, 2020, 12:03:20 PM
Rick, you may be able to answer this, why can I see your signature on your posts, but I can not see my signature on mine? When I check my profile its there but it's not appearing on any posts

Appears on the first post in each page....not every post otherwise can fill up the page  ;)
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on July 01, 2020, 12:04:34 PM
Appears on the first post in each page....not every post otherwise can fill up the page  ;)
ah , that makes sense, thanks mate :)
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on July 01, 2020, 01:47:02 PM
Thanks for answering that AKULA.
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on July 01, 2020, 02:28:07 PM
here are some more Hardarim
Title: Re: The Search for the Oliphaunt
Post by: AKULA on July 01, 2020, 02:36:59 PM
A real exotic mix of figures there... 8)