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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: Bosch on November 15, 2011, 10:47:39 PM
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I need a couple of fairly generic elephants that I can use in several armies. I'm more interested in impact on the table than button counting. Those that have taken my eye are 1st Corps and Aventine but I've not seen them together to compare and would be interested to see how they do and hear others opinions. I'd also be grateful for any other suggestions. Thanks.
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Crusader
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Gripping Beast?
(http://coolminiornot.com/pics/pics13/img498f242a0f79b.jpg)
Obviously the Romans are not included ;)
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Rafm - there are a few in the Space 1889 section and one in the historicals
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Thaqt gripping beast ellie is a cracker :-*
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I personally really like Aventine and have 3 for conversion (at some time :'() in the future for use in our Indostan games. I had the exact same dilemma as yourself and went for impact over accuracy of period. They are big beautiful models and if you ask nicely you can get head or howdah swaps when ordering.
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Thanks all - where did the Romans come from then?!
Any other offers?
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found more pics of that shiny Roman Elephant model, what an eye candy..
http://meanbeautiful.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/roman-elephant/
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3639/3521718179_fe3b5ca263_b.jpg)
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3558/3523322878_70e0f8f12c_b.jpg)
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3405/3523324378_ae5ec377b1_b.jpg)
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Aventine
I think some miniatures of the crew are warlord games EIR romans, others are conversions with parts of the same range.
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ooh...shiny..that four-elephants-pic..where are they from?
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Aventine
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Ooh, those are just what I have been looking for, and what with the Romans on board - bang on!
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The only problem with the Gripping Beast jumbos is that the legs are sort of out at the sides, rather than under the body - so they look fine from the side, but pretty poor from the front or back - because real elephants are heavy, and keep their legs under their bodies. They're lovely resin castings though - with metal bits like trunks.
Aventine's ellies are much better, anatomically. They're metal though, and the bodies are in two halves, so they need gluing and a little bit of filler. Heads are separate too, and need gluing... But seprate heads mean that you can swap 'em about and get more variety in your army.
Personally, I prefer Aventine. I've got, er, five for my Sassanid and four for my Pyrrhic armies.
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Do you have painted Gripping beast elephants on your page, Phil?
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Has anyone seen the Renegade elephants in the flesh?
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Do you have painted Gripping beast elephants on your page, Phil?
Just one:
(http://web.me.com/philhendry/Phil_Wargaming_Website/_Media/jumboa4_med.jpeg)
The tower is scratchbuilt - I didn't really care for the Gripping Beast tower. If you look in the gallery here: http://web.me.com/philhendry/Phil_Wargaming_Website/sassanid_photo_album/index.html (http://web.me.com/philhendry/Phil_Wargaming_Website/sassanid_photo_album/index.html) you'll see more photos of the same jumbo, and also some of the Aventine ones.