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errant49

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Re: Carthaginian war elephant
« Reply #18 on: July 03, 2017, 03:21:02 PM »
Gaston Lacomblez was a Belgian collector
He issued a few elephants designed and engraved by himself and he also made some "cut out" from metal sheet
You can see two of his figures in the Douchkine book : the Indian frontal elephant (which should be unpainted in my postal box soon) and the big elephant fighting war chariots
The carthaginian and the indian elephants moulds has been cleaned and repaired by a german specialist and belong too a german collector
If some of you are interested I can ask him if he agrees I give his mail
He also will be in Kulmbach
Eric






Re: Carthaginian war elephant
« Reply #17 on: July 03, 2017, 02:44:08 PM »
That's what counts ??? As long as you  are happy with it then good  ??? In this day and age we all have to pinch are penny's  ::) Second do you know who makes it and think the would take confederate money ::) Willie

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« Reply #16 on: July 03, 2017, 02:33:35 PM »

A part of flat history, tell us more as I don't know  ;)
 Gaston Lacomblez  ?   figure now available again?  what size is the piece? and is the new cast the same as the old?   

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« Reply #15 on: July 03, 2017, 01:41:41 PM »
First I did not pay it that price, just half
Second it is not from  a set
Third this figure is part of the flat history
So, as I already said my collector spirit took over
It also made me get in touch with a very nice German collector
At last, as I painted it well enough , you know what..... I am happy !
Eric

Brian

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Re: Carthaginian war elephant
« Reply #14 on: July 03, 2017, 01:16:03 PM »

So why so much??  99 Euros for one figure which I assume is from a set so what am I missing??


Very well painted again Eric  ;) so now you can sell for hundreds hahaha 

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Re: Carthaginian war elephant
« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2017, 03:34:57 PM »
Very nice Eric.

Don't think I would pay €99 for a flat figure, however rare :(

Mike G

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Re: Carthaginian war elephant
« Reply #12 on: July 01, 2017, 07:56:00 AM »
That engraving must have been really hard to paint. Really nice job Eric!
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Re: Carthaginian war elephant
« Reply #11 on: July 01, 2017, 05:16:02 AM »
What was important to me with this figure was its rarity
It is my collector side which took over
And as you know what is rare is expensive... :-\
Eric

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Re: Carthaginian war elephant
« Reply #10 on: July 01, 2017, 04:24:36 AM »
Nice painting Eric.
It is interesting what people think they can get for a unpainted tin figure.
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« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2017, 01:32:17 PM »
I would not pay that much either :P Willie

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Re: Carthaginian war elephant
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2017, 12:28:36 PM »
Yes, you are right
Fortunately I did not pay this price
Eric

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Re: Carthaginian war elephant
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2017, 11:20:22 AM »
I believe the same was disputed on EBay from Gaston Lacomblez  unpainted this week for 99 euros!!! 



not a high quality engraving ...
Michel
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Re: Carthaginian war elephant
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2017, 11:03:40 AM »
Great job Eric.

John

errant49

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Re: Carthaginian war elephant
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2017, 10:26:58 AM »
Mike, it was designed and engraved by Lacomblez
Eric

Re: Carthaginian war elephant
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2017, 10:17:56 AM »
Nice job Eric ;D   Some times these elephants are hard to paint,but come out very nice. Willie