Reviews : Hat Carthaginian War Elephants

This is an excellent, durable model of Carthaginian War Elephants. You get 6 elephants (3 of each of 2 poses), 6 drivers, and 12 men (6 spearman and 6 standard bearers) for the towers on elephants' backs. My son uses this set as a toy with his other 1/72 soldiers. It blew his mind to think about elephants used as weapons in war. The driver sticks onto the tower with a peg that comes out of the tower - I almost cut that peg off before I realized. Also, the tower for one elephant was missing a peg used to attach it to the elephant's back. I used a bit of glue and it seems fine. The sculpting is excellent.

The War Elephant set is very nice. You get 6 Pachyderms total and 3 Figures per. 2 of the Riders differ in that one is in the attacking pose and one is not. Would've like to seen at least one of the riders with say a Bow and Arrow. Figures will require a little more prep than what I've seen with other HAT sets. The set is in the Yellowish Tan color. Size of elephants in relation to figures could be offset a little better. Guess they're just younger elephants. Overall, I'd give it an 8, just not quite high enough for an excellent rating, but in the upper 8 range.

This is an excellent War Elephant kit in 1/72. Inside are six elephants with three crew per beast, suitable to be used in a Carthaginian army. The elephants have two different poses both suitable for wargaming and everything included is considered historically accurate.

Detail is great easy to assemble easy to paint use a good primer .I use walthers goo for the adhesive.