Colonel Hathi's Patrol

Finished my last two elephants today. Some terrible photography gives me only 3 photos though. Need a proper studio set up. Not sure how well the howdah's work. Oddly I'm not that precise at craft, my buildings and terrain have a ramshackle appearance, so I design them to be such. These doesn't really work when building things like howdahs

Obviously  this was the 2nd film I saw at the cinema, about 1972, with my Grandad, the 1st was the Aristocats.

So Roy Williamson did some technical wizardry with my terrible photos and turned them into this. They are fab. Cheers for this mate. I owe you a coffee (tea is better) at the Border Reiver Show on 5th Sept if you make it

To Bombay a Travelling Circus Came

I went to Wilko a few weeks ago and purchased some plastic elephants, £1 each I think. A little large, 12 feet to shoulder makes them big but not impossible African elephants - they are supposed to be scary. Bit of a clean up, made a howdah from card and blankets from milliput. The chains are scrap cheap necklaces. Basic grey paint job with some dry brushing with base sand (Foundry) and finally a Numidian  mahout from my bits box. Generally pretty chuffed. Left it uncrewed as they can be used for a number of races. Couple more to paint and will try some decoration on the elephants and more interesting bases.

I also finished my 2nd Macedonian phalanx. I actually started these before the previous ones I posted but had major colour palette issues and couldn't settle on a colour scheme, therefore they are a little shoddy.

This odd comic song was cool when I was at University, for that drunken last song, Nellie - I have weird and subversive tastes