Aegyptus August 6- Savage Aegyptus Shefdu and Mabuki

It was long threatened and now it is done- a version of Shefdu Sootootma as a barbarian. This is the Shefdu who became trapped in the Scroll of Savage Aegyptus. This lawless vicious land turned the young Scribe into a hardened warrior with a focus more on survival than his original quest for knowledge... Oh, and there's an alternate version of Mabukitoth-re (Shefdu's chosen student who became an Asar Harbinger of Thoth and has long been unfairly ignored in miniature even though he's part of the foundation of this blog) too. I thought it would be fun if the Savage Aegyptus Mabuki version was a wizard instead of a barbarian because in the original reality Mabuki's kind of a hothead tough guy. 

The Mabuki Master of Words is simply a Dark Fable mini from the Temple of Set campaign. His fancy book might be a limited edition WarGods of Aegyptus, maybe...

On to the barbarian Shefdu, I've been holding onto this Reaper mini since it came out long ago. With a Tethru headswap it looks pretty good. The figure came on a detestable integral base that had to go but he's not totally secure. I wanted something on the base to spice it up, so it had to be a couple of scrolls rather than skulls. 

Thus another Shefdu from the alternate scrolls of existence joins the growing ranks during the Crisis of Infinite Shefdus...

Aegyptus August 01- Young Shefdu and Asar Lady

 

As mentioned during the kickoff of Aegyptus April, the option for August has been picked up and it looks like several other WarGods fans are taking part in this one. So August begins with a conversion of a Young Shefdu and an Asar female who can fill many roles. 

From Dark Fable (I think it was the Set worshippers campaign) is an Asar Priestess/Mistress of Words/Witch or whatever. She's a very nice simple sculpt and I think the color scheme lends itself to multiple roles on the tabletop. 

I've gone on and on about Shefdu Sootootma in earlier posts here and there will be more of that in the future (Crisis of Infinite Shefdus is happening!). This is a long-awaited step in representing the origin of Shefdu as a young adventurous scribe.

Based on an Anubi Slinger, I chopped off the sling and drilled out the rock in his right hand. His bag full of rocks was carved out a bit for an extra quill and a rolled up scroll. The scroll in his right hand is a glue strengthened strip of masking tape (it's got a good texture for scrolls) wrapped around a length of pin. 

To fix the gap where the Tethru head was mounted on the Anubi Slinger body I used a combination of some UV Resin and a couple types of texture paint. The hair in the back isn't good but it looks okay and I'm not going to fret over it because the overall figure turned out great.

I got this idea back a decade or more ago when I was encouraged to convert some Tethru Slingers from Khemru and Anubi bodies. This unit turned out really cool even though my sculpting skills on them were not great, except for the one that I sent to Alex Bates to paint for me- his hair is perfect (the one in the back left corner of the unit).

And here is the growing gathering of Shefdus from throughout the scrolls- the Crisis of Infinite Shefdus!