"War Elephant - 30mm Flat" Topic

Here's something I just completed, a Hellenistic war elephant. The figure is by Tylinksi. Painted with acrylics.

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"Real" or not, it was fun to paint. :)

Steve

Really lovely! There is something very special about flats.

Simon

Wow! Nicely done!

excellent!

Truly stunning! I recently purchased some flats. That's one of the best paint jobs I've seen.

No pictures from the front? ;-)

Simon

Nice job! Something to satisfy the Hyborian campaign in you.

Thanks, guys. :) The pictures are in focus but my camera washed out the colors a bit. The large caparison is more purple in hue, the elephant more brownish.

Steve

terrific..what make of flat?

terrific..what make of flat?

The figure is by Tylinksi.

Very good love the background.

What did you prime the flat with ??

Thanks for posting

Very nicely done Steve!

BigRedBat wrote:

"No pictures from the front? ;-)"

Troublemaker! ;-)

Dave

So what does an unpainted flat like that cost, please?

Simon

Thanks again, guys. The background is the map from my old S&T magazine Successors game. Prime as you would any wargames figures. Simon, unpainted 30mm war elephant flats range from 6.00 – 20 euros. Depends upon which dealer you buy from. They do pop up on eBay now and then as well.

Steve

I recognised the background; Successors is one of my favourite games.

6-20 Euros makes them relatively affordable. I'll pick up one up if I see it on Ebay; takes me back Hyborea, too…

Simon

Yeah, that's my goal too. A Tony Bath style army. Here's a shot more in that vein, the colors are more true to life here.

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eBay is a crap shoot, Simon. Something may pop up soon or you could wait quite a while. Here's a couple of other possibilities. First, Zinnfiguren Hoffman (go down the page to the Ancients). They're cast from old Heinrichsen molds, hence a bit old school and 28mm scale. But the price is right, 5.50 – 6.50 euros.
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Another is GO International. A set of three war elephants, ready for the shopping cart.
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Maybe more than you need but they'll sell singles, and the convenience of using English and Paypal transactions is a plus.

Steve

Hi Steve, I think yours is the best; the GO ones look a little over-engineered for a Carthaginian nellie! The painting on your nellie and the foot is splendid.

Thanks, Simon

Thanks, Simon. You're right about the GO elephants. The appearance is bit fanciful by modern standards of scholarship. Berliner Zinnfiguren has an excellent selection of war elephants, that's where I got mine.

That's the good news. The bad news is they're expensive @ 19.95 euros. BZ doesn't edit their own, they retail Lampert and Tylinksi's elephants; the collector takes a hit for BZ's profit margin. I have Lampert's catalog on order, going to cut out the middle man.

Steve

20 Euros seems a lot for a flat, although I suppose I have paid similar prices for 28mm resin elephants with metal crew. But they are multi-piece kits.

Simon

Steve,

Keep us informed about your success with Lampert. I wouldn't mind trying him out if you have success. Does he accept Paypal?

Scott

If you are living in the EU you could use a simple EU bank transfer, relatively fast and cheap!

Ulenspiegel

BTW Nice paintjob, CorporalTrim! I have the Lampert catalog, so my bet is that you will have an elephant heavy army within one year and your next project is a celtic army with lots of chariots :-)))

I have a blog about Berliner Zinnfiguren. What a great store.

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Thanks, Ulenspiegel. :)

Yes, I got the Lampert catalog. His war elephants are great, 10-15 euros depending upon the complexity. Well, the whole selection is amazing, particularly if you fancy Romans.

Sorry, Scott. No English, no Paypal, no credit cards: bank transfer only. But not so bad if you use Zoom.com, $4.95 USD to play your own transfer vs. paying your US bank >$30 in fees to do the same thing.

Steve

"No English, no Paypal, no credit cards:" That pretty much means "no deal" as far as I'm concerned.

Thanks anyway, Steve.

Scott

No worries, Scott. That's completely understandable. For me, the bank transfer fee equates to Berliner Zinnfiguren's markup on one war elephant, so I'm willing to move forward providing the postage costs aren't outrageous.

I think the biggest impediment to most would be that Lampert won't break up the sets (if I translated the conditions of doing business correctly). And while the price per figure is reasonable, a lot of his units are large sized. Selling the extras you won't get around to painting on eBay is an option but what you can actually recover there is always a roll of the dice.

Steve

@CorporalTrim

You have understood the conditions correctly :-)

On the other hand, E. Lampert seems to be a reasonable man and I would simply ask him, whether he would deliver series that fit the requirements of your war game – assume you need less rank and file figures, as you do not play with a 1:4 figure scale.
If your proposed order is not in the 15 Euro range but much higher, I would expect he accepts :-))) He may also recognise that war gamers in the UK and USA are future customers if he changes his conditions a little bit.

Greetings from Graz!

Thanks, Ulenspiegel !

I was thinking the same thing, wouldn't hurt to ask. For openers, I'm interested in the imitation legionaries/Thorakites (a little hard to tell from the drawings but I'm pretty sure that's what they are), Cretan archers, Seleucid cataphracts and of course one or two elephants. :)

Regards,
Steve

If you need a German version of a letter, contact me- my German is much better than my English :-)))

Thanks for the offer, Ulenspiegel. I think I can get the point across in Babelfish. It does an execrable job with the grammar, but so long as I keep the English half simple and avoid ambiguous words it should be okay.

Don't be too modest about your English, it's fine. :)

Steve