The Search for the Oliphaunt

[Wilgut Spleens]

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

[PhilB]

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?

[Wilgut Spleens]

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

[AzSteven]

Your elephant conversions came out great - very inspiring!

[Baconfat]

What models do you use as your Southron?

The scarlet uniforms and pointed helmets are terrific looking.

[OSHIROmodels]

Nice 

[Grumpy Gnome]

Great to see you posting here mate!

[Wilgut Spleens]

Your elephant conversions came out great - very inspiring!

Thank you

[Wilgut Spleens]

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

[PhilB]

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!

[scatterbrains]

Thats pretty much legendary from my point of view ...

What inspired you for the shield designs?

[Wilgut Spleens]

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.

[AKULA]

Great choice of figures/ conversions & colour schemes

 

[Wilgut Spleens]

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

[Wilgut Spleens]

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