carthaginian war elephant - 30mm

[willie]

I like the color. After taking care of them for some years  I can say they range in various colors.  Look at wild and domestic ones, they range in color and where they live.  I would give them a bath and the first thing they would do was roll in the dirt and mud  When they get old they get age spots.  Hannibal  what type of elephants are they   Willie

[marko]

Happily having a few Gottstein elephants in the stash this is very interesting for me as well!  Lovely start on this.


Figure is interesting as well.  Vague memory tells me there was an African elephant that was somewhat smaller than the Indian elephant that the Romans hunted to extinction along with Tigers and some other assorted wildlife in Northern Africa.


Do paint on!


mark 

[Hannibal]

Fantastic painting as started ...
I was just preparing yesterday an elephant bought two weeks ago from a set of eleven from an heritage, with the missing soldiers and tower, so for my first, it will just be the Indian elephant and its mahout, to learn how to paint the skin tones of the animal ... Fixtures other than the head cover were removed.
This one is a Menz  'E4'

But painting will start after Lugdunum...
 

[Nicholas Ball]

Looking Very Very Gooood Daniel.

I've got the Tiger hunt to do ( 6 elephants ) so I'm interested to see how you do these. Not that I copy, I just borrow the design  hahaha

[Daniel CANET]

Another elephant !!! This piece engraved by LECKE is published by Berliner Zinnfiguren; engraving and casting quality are limiting préparation minimum.
To change the grey elephants I chose to make a brown skin. My palette consists of:
* brown red = burnt sienna + march black +  march orange tip
* brown yellow =  brown red + sienna natural + march yellow
* brown grey =  brown yellow + grey
* grey = march black  + titanium white
* Deep shadows = Cassel earth + neutral tint

Each color is then extended by spot stains are melted together[size=78%] [ Guests cannot view attachments ] [/size]