"Indian Indian nellie" Topic

I've just painted a Vendel Indian elephant that Raglan (formerly of this parish) kindly sent me. I mostly painted it for fun, but may use it in some Successor battles. More about it on t'blog:-

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Cheers, Simon

Very nice indeed, Simon. Will grace any Successor army. And of course, once you have a few more you will hear the siren call of a full Indian army begging to be given form…

Paul, you don't need to tell me about that siren call… ;-)

Looks great.

Impressive!

Nice! I've got some Newline 20mm Indain ellies to paint up there are some great colour choices to nick on your elephant.

Very nice!

Simon, you did it again!!!!!!!!!! Nice work!!! Cheers Mike

Thanks all! Hi Mike!

Simon

Some great brush work here and very nice base!

That's great!

Very nice work.

It's a great pity nobody does a decent 28mm Indian range. It's a fab army to game with. My early Wargame years saw some fantastic ancient battles with just 4 armies – Indians, Parthians, Romans and Celts

Bill Lamming did some great Indians in 25mm

Nicely done Simon – the little stars look very good! I painted a lone Indian elephant awhile ago (Hinchliffe).

Emperor – Essex has a reasonable range in 28mm.

Garry

SHQ have a range in 28mm which I believe are the old Newline Designs range

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Nice Vendel beastie and crew!

Thanks very much, chaps!

There is 1st Corps, too. But Vendel are the only larger 28s…

"It's a great pity nobody does a decent 28mm Indian range."

Vendel does a first rate 28mm Indian range. The above Indian elephant is superb. In fact, until Aventine elephants came along the Vendel elephants were the best out there in 25/28 in my opinion. And the fact that Vendel elephants are one piece resin casts make them more practical to me than Aventine.

…but alas Vendel are no more. :-(

Definitely well done!!

Vendel aren't gone they just moved to the USA (kind off) and are available from Sergeant Major miniatures full range here

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Not as easy to get in the UK admittedly but if you really want them they ship worldwide according to their website.

Not easy to import, these days. Handling charges can be frightfully expensive. :-(

This version of the Vendel elephant (with the head up) is much better than the original, which looked something like a sad drunk cow. I agree if Aventine ever moves east their elephants will top these… their Sassanid King model is exceptional and I've contemplated putting my Vendel crew on it--- for one of those future projects…..

The pose is slightly off, with the head down:

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Something subtle yet bright and tropical about the painting colours and basing. Really excellent and I would use this a guide if doing Indians.
Are the elephant designs transfers or painted.

Hi JJ, I love that beast of yours, head down, or not.

The Vendel model was very nice to work with, and conveniently light. I wonder whether we could encourage Keith to experiment with resin? The texture of the folds in the skin on its backside are lovely, I don't imagine one could get those with metal. Cheaper to post, too…

Colin, thanks, I painted those, they fairly easy but took a while to do. The green one is copied from a print I found online.

Cheers, Simon

What we need is some firm to do a plastic elephant box. A couple of elephants, a howdaw, bottom halves of torsos to fit in it and sitting on the second elephant directly with a range of top halves and heads so they could be used for Indians, Successors, Punics, even medieval turks. I think these would sell like hotcakes.

Punics used different elephants

Re – the plastic elephants it's a good idea but you'd need and Indian elephant and an African forest elephant box set. The African ones would do for Ptolemy, Carthage and Numidians the other box set everyone else.

I had a friend who had an Ancient Indian army, with around a dozen Britains baby elephants with metal crew, for the strike force. Looked very good indeed (in 1985). ;-)

Simoon

First club I joined, as a spotty youth, had a Carthaginian army half made of 25mm minifigs and half of converted Airfix including some Britain's elephants with Airfix crew that were smaller than the minifigs horses …good days