[Commercial] Aventine elephants crews- Astride crew added

[Aventine]

Just a quick post to let you all know that we have moved the elephants over to resin. They have been cast by Hysterical Miniatures and what a job they have done. There are 4 bodies and 6 heads. The tusks and tails will be in pewter and if selected howdahs likewise. All bodies can now take astride crews which we are working on.

Here are body 1 head 1 and body 2 head 2, all bodies and heads now sold separately so in theory you can have 24 different versions.

[bigredbat]

I have just received a couple of these- absolutely stunning. They are even better than the original metals as:-

1) less assembly as the body is solid
2) the skin texture is really great- lots of shallow creases in all the right places
3) they weigh virtually nothing (which cannot be said of their metal brethren!)

I am well chuffed.

[aphillathehun]

Awesome!  On my list when I get employed again!

[Mithridates1]

Excellent idea - have a number of the metal Aventine nellies and they certainly weigh a tonne!   These look great, maybe I can add to the herd......some with crew astride might be the go.   Now where are the Seleucids?

[Nevyen]

Going to have to order some of these !!!!!

[Aventine]

Garry

Seleucids will follow honest then the Byzantines. We are doing the crews now, might be a surprise for you amongst them.

Cheers
Keith

[Mithridates1]

Thanks Keith.   I love surprises.    On another Forum the notion of Indian crews was raised, these and Macedonians astride would be terrific.

Very interested in both Seleucids and Byzantines - I do hope both will include General figures (especially Belisarius).   

Excellent news.

Garry

[fantail]

These are just awesome and cheaper as well. Garry, The Miniature Company does a nice looking Indian elephant crew without an elephant. Don't know how well they would fit without some surgery.
Andrew

[Mithridates1]

Thanks Andrew, had a look.  Nice models and figures, the painted ones came up well on their web site/facebook page.

Thought it would be good to have Eudamos' elephants properly crewed for Eumenes (early Successor).    Have an olde one, Essex  I think, so will be interested to see what Aventine produces.   Essex's Indian (28mm) range are nice figures.

Garry

[Captain Blood]

Those are lovely jumbos 

[Aventine]

The old and the new with a bit of paint to show the differences(we have been asked).


The legs are thinner and the front foot now rests on the ground, then there is the added skin details and the body being in one piece, the tail is separate and can be bent so they are not all the same from behind.

Closer detail of the skin textures.


Cheers

keith

Crews and unit deals soon.

[Madhouse Workshop]

Nicely done.  Look to have some simply great detail to them.

[Aventine]

We re-made the elephant crews, new figures with separate heads. We also added the option of selecting from 7 different head sets to the store so now when buying you can have whatever style of helmet you want for the crews. The figures have no bases so are easier to locate in the howdahs, we do supply a small sheet of alloy to act as a group base(means you can dismount the figures for transporting or a different set).






Cheers
Keith
https://aventineminiatures.co.uk/

[aphillathehun]

They look terrific!

[Hu Rhu]

Wonderful figures.