"Behold! The Mummy Horde" - Conan Mummies II

There is no happiness for the soul in the external worlds

since these are perishable, true happiness lies in that which

is eternal, within us.

- Egyptian Book of the Dead

Greetings friends, welcome to this week's The Art of Caesura!

Thanks to everyone who said such nice things on the various social media about my post from last week. It's always a surprise to me which posts spark public interest, so I love to hear from you guys!

More mummies; that's the theme of today! A couple weeks ago we looked at the first half of the mummies from the board game Conan. Those guys had their left arm up as if they were using an invisible walking stick. Today we're looking at the rest of them. I differentiated between them by noting that these guys are holding their sword more in front of their body and seemingly walking with more of a shuffling gait.

To come clean, I actually batch painted these guys at the same time as the other ones. So, while my painting technique is the same as my previous mummy post, today I'll focus on the details that I didn't talk about last time.

Maybe I'll start at the bottom, and work my way up. I did the bases the same way I do most of my bases these days - in a "badlands" style. Tune in in a couple weeks for an in-depth look at how I make these simple but effective bases.

While I'll go into the details of the bases next week, I just want to explain my rationale for them this week. I know some might deride the fact that the bases don't contrast the models enough but I actually like that. I feel that, like Tweak the familiar, it makes them a study in textures.

By keeping the colours tight and monochromatic you can better appreciate the roughness of the dirt, the dryness of the wrappings and the necrotic skin. Or maybe that's just me being optimistic.

I even tried to keep the sword in the same colour-group as the rest of it. The blunted blade the lightness of the wrappings, but again a different texture; and the patina dulled handle similar to the yellow dry tufts of grass.

The only little specks of contrast (and they're actually hard to make out in this picture) are the blue gems on the hilt of the sword and the mummy's chest.