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Mythical Agyptian Bases¶

The bases are all painted and grass tufts added.

The tufts are from Noch (#07004), and are fine, but have a very visible glue layer on the bottom. On the one hand this is sometimes quite visible, on the other some of the tufts also did not fit flush to the base, due to the sand structure.

To cover the glue and the gaps, I used two flocks from Woodland Scenics.

This is the end result. The tufts are blended into the base, the glue covered.


Here is the whole force finished and assembled.

And in their storage box.

Project done :-)


[Song of Fork and Heroes]¶
Mythical Agyptian Bases¶

I started to work on all the bases. They were painted in ochre and drybrushed in a bone white.

Next, some grass tufts will be added.


[Song of Fork and Heroes]¶
Mythical Agyptian Priests¶

The priest are done.


[Song of Fork and Heroes]¶
Mythical Agyptian Priests¶

For the icon I choose a symbol of Nekhbet from the internet and printed it. Then I tried to recreate that in a 3d version. I wanted to have the forward wing raised above the body, the rear wing lowered below the body, etc.

The first attempt was to carve it from foam. But this failed miserably. It would perhaps worked better with a hot wire cutter than a knife, but the edges especially were very flimsy and I did not trust them to last.

 

The second attempt was to carve it from grey stuff. While the first layer went okayish, the second clearly showed that I have no sculpting skills whatsoever...

 

So in the end I glued several icons on another layer of paper, and cut out the different layers, then gluing them on top of each other.

 

The priest got a piece of brass rod glued into his hand to mount the icon on.


[Song of Fork and Heroes]¶
Mythical Agyptian Priests¶

The good thing is, the doctor sent me on sick leave for the whole weak.

The bad thing is, all the sleeping and "suffering" (my wife's words) take away so much time and leave not that much for painting. But giving the models a quick spray with black was doable.

I started painting the skin but did not get that far...


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Mythical Agyptian Priests¶

I wanted to come much farther today, applying at least the base colours, but the beginnings of a flu requested me to spend too much time sleeping...


[Song of Fork and Heroes]¶
Mythical Agyptian Priests¶

Some more mystical elements - well, these are historical figures basically, but to my best knowledge the historical priests were not able to summon demons and awake mummies.

It is one priest and one acolythe, the acolythe will get a pole with the symbol of Nekhebet. The pole supplied had a nice symbol, but not very nekhebetic.

As usual, they are mounted on bases from Products for Wargamers.


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Mythical Agyptian Spearmen¶

The last four spearmen are done.

Here is the whole group of twelve.


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Mythical Agyptian Spearmen¶

The next four models are done - only four left!


[Song of Fork and Heroes]¶
Mythical Agyptian Spearmen¶

The second four models are done - which took only three months...