turtle vs elephant

[tderespino]

enjoy...


http://community.webshots.com/album/547781521QlKnaK


tomd

[ARMY GROUP 1]

NOT 1/18, NAUGHTY NAUGHTY, BUT YOU HAVE DISCOVERED MY LATEST MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN PROJECT. I HAVE 30 PAPO 90MM ROMANS ALREADY & JUST YESTERDAY BOUGHT 6 CAMELS FROM SCHEICH TO CARRY SOME OF THEM. THE CAMEL IS A GOOD LOOKING PIECE, BUT I HAVE DISGARDED THE ARAB RIDERS & PLACED MY ROMANS ON THEM. THEY LOOK OK. HAVE PRE-ORDERED 15 BBI 90MM ROMANS DUE OUT IN MARCH, THESE WILL MAKE MY TORTOISE. I WILL THROW THEM ALTOGETHER HOPEFULLY BY THE END OF MARCH & PLACE ON THIS POST IF NOT REMOVED TO WHO KNOWS WHERE. NICE ATTEMPT ON YOUR SCENE, FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

[tderespino]

well I am very close to 1/18,,

If you look closely you will see I took papo roman heads and put them on GI joe figures,,,,

Still small scale

I too am going to get some of the BBI romans,, take a look at my website, I did a turtle a while ago...

tomd

[steelbonnet]

Army Group 1,
I think they`ve been generally accepted as fitting into the 1/18th bracket mate

Plus after all back then people were smaller,so they ARE in scale too LOL
Moreso Tomd`s are as they are GI JOE/PAPO Hybrids with his custom skills

Also AG1, Look forward to seeing your Roman Cohort when done,sounds like it will be very impressive

I`ve picked up a few & got a small section done myself.I`m waiting on these BBI one`s to top them up.

Tomd,
WOW mate NOW That`s a Great Display piece for your Romans & the aggression in the elephant is superb,Nice choice

Excellent work mate

Ja
Steel Bonnet

[aferguson]

ha.....that's cool. I've seen that elephant figure around. I have a different elephant tucked away for the same idea one day. It's animatronic; when you push a button on the back of it's leg the head moves, the trunk curls and it trumpets.

I like the idea a lot......and yes, very close to 1/18 considering Roman legionarries were on average about 5'1" or so. I have read that war elephants were enormous however.....up to 13 feet at the shoulder, which is much bigger than almost any elephant you will see today. This could be an 'urban' legend though. I"m sure if you were a 5'1" guy standing in front of any elephant it would look 13 feet tall!

War elephants were not nearly as effective as one might think once enemies caught on that all you have to do is scare them; musical instruments, fire etc were used and caused the elephants to run amuck....usually trampling their own troops in the process.

A+ for ths one.

[lsc1002]

pretty cool!

[Teamski]

War elephants were not nearly as effective as one might think once enemies caught on that all you have to do is scare them; musical instruments, fire etc were used and caused the elephants to run amuck....usually trampling their own troops in the process.

A+ for ths one.

I agree, this is excellent (expecially with my new found interest in playing DBA: http://www.fanaticus.org/DBA/index.html )

I really like it!! The Romans there are in a big world of hurt!! As Andrew mentioned, as time went on, War Elephants became less effective. In addition to the above countermeasures, the Romans would open up avenues between formations to let the elephants pass. Ancient versions of caltrops (spikes) were used to injure the elephant. Whole battles were reversed when elephants panicked and killed a load of friendly troops.

Thanks for sharing the pictures!!

-Ski

[tderespino]

Thanks for all the kind words..

The real story behind this is my son took the elephant and dropped it off the shelf right onto my Roman testudo -

http://community.webshots.com/photo/212 ... 7942ZWBfaO



no real harm but I was inspired to create this sceen as I have seen it before at smaller scale.

http://www.michtoy.com/MTSCnewSite/newp ... KI050.html



I just threw this together as a first cut as I am on a spending strike, I will be dressing up the war elephant and showing some real action

ps,, I will break my spending strike for platoon figures to get a few BBI romans...