Fantasy wildlife - elephants you don't want to mess with...

[beany]

Nellie and her calf have packed their trunks and are heading off to the circus - the circus being ScaleModelWorld at Telford this weekend. This is a another build inspired by a photo in Roger Dean's book Views, this time of the models he made himself when working on the Osibisa album cover concepts - which became flying elephants without the armament on the LP covers!). Hopefully the paint will be dry by tomorrow!
(I was going to call the calf Dumbo but I had to hack the ears off of the model so it didn't seem fair - Mwahahaha ).



Cheers
Al.

[JamesPerrin]

Almost definitely the most unique build on display this weekend

[iggie]

If you don't come away with a prize, then there is no justice in the world! Awesome imagination (on both your's and Roger Dean's part) and execution. Brilliant!

[splash]

Fantastic.

If you have cut of the young ones ears how will he wear glasses when he gets older?

[JohnRatzenberger]

Change the magnification of the turret vision ports ... glasses not needed

[ShaunW]

I'm really glad to see this build come to fruition, Al, taking inspiration from Dean's artwork and turning it into 3-D art like that really is a great bit of fantasy modelling.

[gnomemeansgnome]

Nice! I wonder who would win in a gunfight; them or the Tarkus?

[beany]

thanks for the kind comments gents. Here are my pair of packing pachyderms on their first outing - to Telford this weekend. I made a foamboard poster with images and the Roger Dean album covers to explain the project. It was well admired and certainly well photographed.

[Tarkas]

Here are my pair of packing pachyderms on their first outing - to Telford this weekend. I made a foamboard poster with images and the Roger Dean album covers to explain the project. It was well admired and certainly well photographed.

...and nicely matched by the skull-nosed Blackbird up the other end of the table. That's Blackbird as in SR-71, for those who weren't there. Did that concept come from the same artist as the turretephants?

[Tarkas]

Nice! I wonder who would win in a gunfight; them or the Tarkus?

Probably these two -- more advanced guns than my favourite tankadillo (also the source of my nom de plume, except that I forgot how to spell it ).

[beany]

...and nicely matched by the skull-nosed Blackbird up the other end of the table. That's Blackbird as in SR-71, for those who weren't there. Did that concept come from the same artist as the turretephants?

Absolutely. Both concepts were album cover projects, albeit for very different bands back in the 70s.

[gnomemeansgnome]

That Blackbird is nuts.

[MarkyM607]

What the heck???

[ShaunW]

That SR71 is another great interpretation in model form of Roger Dean's artwork. He certainly had a very fertile imagination and/or had been experimenting with some very dodgy chemicals in order to come up with these ideas Far out, man.

[gnomemeansgnome]

Mmm, dodgy chemicals........