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Miniatures Adventure => Colonial Adventures => Topic started by: TWD on 20 November 2014, 12:29:32 PM
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No, that's budgies...
Ahem.
I picked this up for a quid in Wilkos last week.
Quick repaint and he's good to go for some Darkest African type exploring.
(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r195/webdeak/Darkest%20Africa/elephant210_zps81a8075f.jpg)
A few more pictures (and a size comparison) over on the blog
http://tomstoysoldiers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/nelly-3.html
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Looks like I will have to pop into Wilkos, thanks for the posting.
Time to break out the Africans again they have been gathering dust for too long.
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Any other different poses, or just the one (I'm imagining one).
cheers
James
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They only had this one (and I imagine that'll be it).
I'll keep looking for a female and baby.
:)
Sadly most of the other animals seemed to be not in scale - built to fit a child's hand rather than fit with 28mm models I suspect. They were 3 for 2 as well, so more would have been an even bigger bargain!
They had some dinosaurs if your interests verge on the Lost World/Pulpy...
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Thought as much but the dinos could be interesting :)
cheers
James
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Thanks for the heads up. Will be popping into my local store on Saturday. Great paint job by the way.
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Damn no elephants in my local Wilco, must have had a jumbo sale lol
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Strange, here they sell Mammoths. lol
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Well that was a waste of time sculpting all those elephants lol
Its a lovely peice of work.If may offer a little advice try adding a tanned flesh to your greys and work up to a highlight of pure tanned flesh on the feet and trunk,If you ever do another one it just makes them pop a bit more than neat grey.(I've painted a fair few now I've sculpted over twenty elephant and paint all of them for adverts plus the ones I've done privately for collectors,Theres only so many grey elephants you can do before you start to play with other colours and this was one of the best and fastest method )
Mark.
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Good spot, thanks for sharing it. I picked up a couple for gladiatorial games.
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I managed to get an elephant, rhino and hippo. All look good. Sadly I wanted 2 more nellies but they had sold out.
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No elephants in Scarborough.
Quite a few dinos.
Also some interesting looking 3 or 4 inch medievals.
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That paint job is just fantastic ! Love the way the elephant looks.
While I hate to be the one to say the emperor is maked, that model is HUGELY out of scale, WAY too big for 28mm. No elephant who ever lived was 20 feet tall. An average elephant is under 14 feet tall.
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That paint job is just fantastic ! Love the way the elephant looks.
While I hate to be the one to say the emperor is maked, that model is HUGELY out of scale, WAY too big for 28mm. No elephant who ever lived was 20 feet tall. An average elephant is under 14 feet tall.
It could be one from the lost Pulp Land of the Giant Elephants? I've yet to check mine against a figure, I was distracted by the lovely brushwork on that elephant :D
It would probably work fine for 40mm gladiators though.
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I think my photography is what's making it look wrong. The elephant is a bit nearer the camera and on a slightly thicker base.
;)
The elephant model is roughly 60mm tall at the shoulder.
My Foundry DA models are approx 30mm tall.
So the elephant is around twice the height of my man.
So if he's 6ft tall then Nelly is around 12ft tall.
I'm happy that's pretty much bang on in scale.
If you prefer m, this says an African elephant is 2.5-4m tall:
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/african-elephant/
6ft is around 1.8m so twice his height is 3.6m - again, pretty much bang on for scale
I discounted both the Rhino and the Hippo because they looked too big, but I think Nelly is just about right.
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That's good to know TWD, mine's still in the carrier bag!
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Don't get hung up scale.Belive me you get too close to an elephat in musk and they feel a lot more than 20'tall!There is nothing wrong in having animals oversized it helps convey just how small you actually feel next to them,and how much danger your character's are in.