"1st Crops Successor Elephants" Topic

Saw greens of these at Claymore show and looked amazing. Huge beasts with very nice armour. They will be in resin and the same models can (less the armour) be bought for Indian army instead of excistng ones if preferred.

The other new Successors have been good; the recent cavalry are lovely. I hope the elephants aren't spoiled by being *too* big. "Huge beasts" rings alarm bells, as there have been a couple of excessive examples released.

1st Corps existing Indian elephants are in the right range. Hope the new ones are not larger than that.

Allen

Yep. Been keeping an eye on the 1st Corps site for news on the new elephants since this announcement TMP link

The new cataphracts are a great fit with my Newline Seleucids, so if the elephants are around the same size as the Newline armoured elephants I will be very happy…but given I have just spent all my pocket money on Ancient Italians I will have to convince the missus to buy me an early Christmas present ;)

Cheers,
Paul.

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Side by side of 1st Corps elephant next to a 28mm Newline Designs elephant model.
JJ

That 1st Corp elephant is pretty substantial! I've previously tended to think of 1st Corp being on the small side.

Simon

My two 1st Corps unarmoured Indian elephants arrived today for my 'Pyrrhic Project'. No photos unfortunately.

Lovely crisp sculpting, choice of two trunks, but they are just too big :P. Not quite as large as the Empire elephants, but still much bigger than Newline.
The model is only about 10mm taller overall (@95mm to 85mm, from the bottom of the elephant's feet to the top of the tower crews' helmet crests), but the beast itself is much more massively proportioned.
The size is accentuated to a degree by the crew figures – as Simon pointed out, the First Corps figures are on the slight side as 28s go.
Still, given that these models will do duty as the entire Pyrrhic elephant corps and won't be mixing with any other makes, they will do the job.

Looks like I will just have to wait until Aventine release their Successor elephants before I increase my Seleucid armoured elephant corps any further.

Cheers,
Paul.

How do the 1st Corps rate sizewise with the Vendel elephants? I have about 5 vendel and have just ordered 4 1st corps.No idea why as I sold off my Indians last spring and have no one for them to go with.Elephant legion maybe?LOL
Have you guys ever heard of Valkyrie Miniatures? They do WWII Norwegians but have a single armored elephant on their site.It looks pretty damn good.

Got my 1st Corps elephants.Really nice figures,almost perfect sizewise with the Vendel ellies.Wish the towers weren't sculpted on but oh well.

Judging from the pics here and the Vendel beast that I have seen at shows ……the newline model is a little wimpy and the first corps and Vendel ones are rather too large

I will post a pic here soon of my own Indian/Thai basic Elephant as soon as I can get a picture done ….meanwhile ,you can see the Thai version at the BAKER.CO website…………

My model is based on my experience of viewing and riding many Elephants in Thailand, they are the most wonderfull animals and there is often quite a size range, I dont suppose there were many regulations about minimum heights in most ancient armies…….If its old enough to fight ,bring it along……….I took some footage of a Siam/Burmese reenactment battle at the Surin Elephant festival a couple of years ago.I will try to post that too

I am cosidering releasing some different versions of the model in Indian /Persian and Macedonian guise, when I have time

Barry………TIMELINE-MINIATURES.CO.UK