Author Topic: Make your own Mumakil (Read 24177 times)

sukhe_bator · « **on:** January 26, 2009, 09:11:17 AM »

Anyone out there who also did not like the LoTR Peter Jackson versions of Tolkeins War elephants?
I decided to make my own, smaller (still at least 4x normal), but less fantastical ones...

wolfgangbrooks · « **Reply #1 on:** January 26, 2009, 09:34:02 AM »

Looks really good.

Sinewgrab · « **Reply #2 on:** January 26, 2009, 02:23:41 PM »

Those are gorgeous - even if I did like the Jackson take. What is your base?

dampfpanzerwagon · « **Reply #3 on:** January 26, 2009, 02:57:12 PM »

I like what you've done - and to me these look much more like the Mumakills of the book.

Tony
http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/

sukhe_bator · « **Reply #4 on:** January 26, 2009, 03:18:33 PM »

All the elephants are toy plastics culled from various toy and charity shops. A couple are from Schleich. The rest is down to lots of hours and lots of Milliput and Green stuff. I've based them on existing elephant armours like the mail and plate armour at the Royal Armouries in Leeds. I've tried to base them on different armour styles, so one is bronze scale armour, one mail and plate, one lamellar etc. Osprey have a new Vanguard publication on War elephants through history which is well worth looking at. I'm using Armies of Arcana, which is a good generic fantasy ruleset. Each model fits on a rectangular base 75mm x 100mm

sukhe_bator · « **Reply #5 on:** February 04, 2009, 10:24:17 AM »

A couple of pics of the prototype howda shape I'll be using on my warherd. Designed to maximise crew size, missile protection and fields of fire

Furt · « **Reply #6 on:** February 04, 2009, 11:36:54 AM »

This is a great looking project. I can't believe they were toy elephants!

What figure did u use for mahout?

Ray Rivers · « **Reply #7 on:** February 04, 2009, 01:10:43 PM »

That's a great elephant!

Can't wait to see it finished.

Saya · « **Reply #8 on:** February 04, 2009, 01:42:26 PM »

Quote from: dampfpanzerwagon on January 26, 2009, 02:57:12 PM

I like what you've done - and to me these look much more like the Mumakills of the book.

Tony
http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/

i totally agree.
Congratulations man, beautiful job

sukhe_bator · « **Reply #9 on:** February 04, 2009, 04:29:41 PM »

The Mahout is a (very limber) Redoubt Miniatures Mughal. I bought a small selection many years ago and decided the would drive my Mumaks. I wanted a combination of smallish shield and armoured figure, reckoning that they were pretty vulnerable up front, and most Mughal miniatures depict the mahouts with some form of armour for just that reason. All I have to do is make the elephant goad for the right hand

Geudens · « **Reply #10 on:** February 04, 2009, 05:48:00 PM »

Apart from a job well done, I feel the size of your Mûmaks is a lot better for gaming than the huge GW ones (though they are to scale with the film ones probably).

sukhe_bator · « **Reply #11 on:** February 05, 2009, 08:48:15 AM »

I agree about the scale of the film Mumaks - too big! You could get a horse under my Mumaks but not a horse and rider. However, if you put 28mm cavalry in front of my Mumaks they look quite scarily big enough!