Phil Hendry  | 29 Oct 2009 8:33 a.m. PST |
I have just updated my blog and photo albums with pictures of my newly completed Aventine Miniatures 28mm Sassanid King's Elephant. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. It's a superb model – it goes together well, and paints up very nicely. link link Cheers,
Phil |
| Austin Rob | 29 Oct 2009 8:53 a.m. PST |
I don't think the shield is going to help the wounded guy much! Very nice. |
| nycjadie | 29 Oct 2009 8:53 a.m. PST |
Phil, I love your website and absolutely love your paint jobs. Great stuff, man. I hope they get a workout on the tabletop soon. I'm so inspired, I want to immediately leave work, go home and paint. Steve
cavalcadewargames.com
nycjadie.wordpress.com |
| Thomas Whitten | 29 Oct 2009 8:55 a.m. PST |
Sigh…..Your site is filled with wonderful, lovely pictures of superbly painted miniatures. It curses me in two ways. 1> It tempts me with me to yet another period.
2> It makes me lament my poor skills as a painter. Back to the Aventine Miniatures Sassanid King's Elephant, it does look like a superb model and you did a fine job with it. |
| de Maistre | 29 Oct 2009 9:12 a.m. PST |
Brilliant, thanks for sharing,are your Romans from Gripping Beast? |
 BigRedBat  | 29 Oct 2009 9:28 a.m. PST |
Phil, what an outstanding bit of painting! I recall suggesting in one of the earlier threads, that all the model needed was a Roman for trampling underfoot. ;-) I want to do an Aventine A&A army, now. Simon |
| Phil Hendry | 29 Oct 2009 3:51 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the kind words chaps! The Middle Imperial Romans are from A&A Miniatures. They're lovely models – I suspect I will have a struggle to stop at 2,000 WAB points-worth! Cheers,
Phil |
| Thomas Whitten | 30 Oct 2009 9:55 a.m. PST |
Why stop at 2000? You should go for 4000! Then, if you want, you can run a 2000 on 2000 point battle with just your Middle Imperial Romans. I'm sure there was a civil war durning that period at some point.  |
| Phil Hendry | 30 Oct 2009 12:37 p.m. PST |
AAAGGGGHHHH!!!! I really don't need any encouragement! My plans already probably need 3,000 points, just to cover the troops I want in the armies in sufficient numbers for the armies to look 'reasonable'. |
| mbsparta | 30 Oct 2009 5:58 p.m. PST |
Awesome model!! Wow! Mike B |
| Phil Hendry | 31 Oct 2009 3:58 a.m. PST |
Thanks Mike! Aventine really should be able to 'corner the market' in 28mm jumbos – their basic jumbo models are easily the best on the market at the moment, before you start adding towers, crews, etc. They're very well sculpted, with excellent detail and they look very 'elephantine' – everything properly in proportion. They're white metal, and in three pieces (head plus the body in two halves) so they do need pinning and a little bit of filler when assembling them, but otherwise they're completely straightforward to build and paint. |
| BigRedBat | 31 Oct 2009 4:49 a.m. PST |
They are, indeed, very nice. I'm particularly looking forward to their African elephant. Simon |
