Aegyptus August 03- A New Priest of Aten Revealed!

 

Long ago there was the Akhenaten Heresy WarGods World Campaign. SPOILER ALERT the Priests of Aten were revealed to be S'syth agents. It was an unexpected and most excellent plot twist. I have one of these rare conversions from that finale and I've made a conversion of one in the past. I've still got a few of the custom cobra heads that Chris FitzPatrick cast up for his personal use and I've been pretty stingy with them. 

But it's Aegyptus August and instead of painting stuff that is already assembled and primed and even sometimes partially painted, why not do a few new conversions? So I did. I've got an unconverted Priest of Aten, but I've done that before. I searched for a base figure that would be unique and nicely fit with the cobra head. It was a Dark Fable eunech captain or something. It just felt like the right figure for this new conversion. 

He doesn't have to represent a Priest of Aten Revealed, he could simply be a Uraei priest or Master of Words for games of "Aegyptus 30k."

Here's the new conversion with the original official conversion (next time Alex is in town he'll need to bring his and we can get a group shot). And below we have Young Shefdu in a spot of bother with the Priests of Aten!

WarGods Minis Month '13 Update 03

 The latest update for WarGods Minis Month finds 2 Olympus minis form Crocodile Games (both released years ago at GenCon not part of the current Kickstarter).

First up the original Demigoddess of Artemis. I've had her started for several years now but I've just never been able to force myself into finishing her until now. I like this sculpt but I'm really looking forward to the Kickstarter Artemis figure.

Then we've got a Minotaur-- or in this case a slight conversion of the Ægyptus hero Menthu Hathor-hotep. This figure can be used as either the Apis son of Ra and Hathor,Menthu (from fluff for a campaign warband and possible skirmish campaign) to a nasty Minotaur for infamous Olympus warbands.

I should get a shot of this guy with the first Minotaur I painted and actually used in the campaign (the one with the big axe).

Here's an overhead view of the base with a battered shield.

More to come...

The Epic of Menthu Hathorhotep is Coming Soon...

... and so is the conversion!

Yes, a slightly converted Olympus Minotaur figure. Crappy pics but I don't want to give away the whole thing at once.

The 'Epic of Menthu' written by SHefdu Sootootma will start appearing in installments soon too. Because Menthu was the character from my latest campaign warband that seems to have captured the hearts and minds of a generation... Or maybe just a few people thought the idea was cool, either way I'm doing it!