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!

Aegyptus August 02- 3 Anubi Archers

 

I've had a handful of Anubi Archers painted for a very long time. It was only 4 which is not even half a unit. They have mostly taken part as stand-ins in Asar archer units in the past. There have been 6 others primed ready for painting for a decade or more. Now it's time to bulk up the unit. That's where these 3 guys come in.

I like to make my Anubi purple because most other people make them black. I have lots of different purple paints and mixing some colors gives me subtle shades of dark purples like on these two guys (they both had totally different paints used)

The color most of my Anubi figures have on their clothes is green so these guys got some green accent colors to fit in with the original archers. 

Here we see the original 4 including their captain with the sword (possibly my favorite Anubi sculpt).  The lightest one was done at a GenCon paint'n'take a very long time ago. The others were painted at the same time as some of the Asar archers. 

Here's the newly finished 3 with the original 4 (new guys on the left). I've got another 3 that are primed and ready to go but I'm not sure they'll see any paint before the end of Aegyptus August. And I just came upon 4 or 5 more bare metal in my massive WarGods naked metal box...

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!

Aegyptus April 08- Beloved of Sobek (II)

Now for the big chompy monster croc....

The Beloved of Sobek is such a great monster, tied with the original Sphinx Abomination for my favorite monster figure from Crocodile Games.

I had a Beloved (painted back in 2008?!?) before, but I got rid of it for some quick cash and regretted it ever since. I picked this new one up at GenCon a few years ago at the Croc booth but set it aside with the anticipation of all the stuff to paint for Olympus (still not much of that stuff is painted). Apologies for the poor pictures of the original- what was I thinking with that background?

I tried to recreate the feel of the original, without looking for the pictures of the original until he was finished. He's still pretty plain but I like the difference from my normal Sebeki who are mostly greens for the scales.

For the base, I wanted something pretty cool. The flagstone liner stuff that I love to use on some bases for WarGods figures was a must. For the water effect I used some UV resin (after changing the batteries in my UV flashlight!). I think it looks good but I'm not sure the pictures catch how nice it looks.

Here's the Beloved with a couple of other Sebeki- the Croc Mascot and the Croc Anniversary Priest. Both are pretty big but dwarfed by the Beloved.

Here's the Beloved going for a snack...

And finally we've got Hoethet the Drunken Swordmaster ready to take on the charging Beloved...

This may be the end of #aegyptusapril but I'm working on a few more figures that might just make the cut. Maybe.

Aegyptus April 07 - Heru Polearms

I'm not a Heru player but I LOVE the original Heru Polearm sculpts by Chris Fitzpatrick. They were some of the first Crocodile Games miniatures I got (in the lil' baggies). One of the coolest things about this unit is the sheer number of unique sculpts and each one is very characterfully stoic. 

These 5 bring the unit up to the minimum size for WarGods but I've got at least another 10 that will someday join their brothers (or be converted to sci-fi) . These 5 have been slowly painted over at least the last 5 years, I'm slow painting stuff sometimes.

We'll start with the standard bearer. Even for the regimented Heru, I don't like to have a whole unit too matchy-matchy so he got a smaller shield to stand out a bit.

Next up is what I always think of as a sergeant because he's yelling. These guys better do whatever he's shouting about. 

Next is 'Harakty' with his scalemail hat. Another thing I love about these sculpts is the scalemail, it's such a joy to paint up and looks good without too much trouble. 

Next up is 'Munthus' who also has a fine scalemail hat.

Finally we come to 'Chikur the Veteran.' His outfit is the most radical of the unit so I thought that could best be explained by him being a veteran of many a bygone campaign. The red trim on his kilt is probably my favorite part of this batch of guys.

Here we have the whole unit of ten Heru lined up for early morning drills, as any good Heru would be.

And here we have the unit with one of their possible captains, the Heru Heroine conversion.