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"It Comes to Life!" - Conan Mummies

Death is only the beginning...

- Imhotep "The Mummy" 1999


Welcome back, gentles all, to The Art of Caesura!

 Last week we looked at the last batch of skeletons from the Conan board game, and this week we're back with undead of a dryer variety.

 The bonus box from the kickstarter came with five each of two different sculpts of mummies for our friendly neighborhood barbarian to hack through, today we'll look at half of them.

Monolith Conan

As with all of the minis in this box that I've talked about so far, I really love the "classic" style of these mummies. Don't get me wrong, I am wowed by the technical wizardry of a lot of the stuff coming out of the likes of Games Workshop and Wyrd these days, but there is something very satisfying in these grounded, archetypal sculpts.
Monolith Conan
These mummies lent themselves perfectly to the quick and dirty style I used for their skeleton brethren. 

Monolith Conan

I started by painting them all Ushabti Bone, I then inked all the areas where their desiccated skin is peeking through with several layers of a watered down mix of Drakenhoff Nightshade and Druchii Violet. I finished off their skin with some The Fang, diluted with Lahmian Medium to keep it nice and matte.
Monolith Conan

With their skin nicely preserved, it was on to their wrapping trappings!

Monolith Conan

I had to be careful now with the linen wrappings because the skin was finished so I didn't want to go flinging ink all over the place. I did an all over wash of Agrax Earthshade (sparing the skin) then watered down Nuln Oil in some of the deeper recesses. As a note, I initially did two of them with Seraphim Sepia instead of Agrax Earthshade and found that they didn't quite have the depth I was going for. I completed the wrappings with highlights of Ushabti bone and then White Scar.

Monolith Conan

To give them a mystical haunting glare, I first filled their eye sockets with Druchii Violet, and once that had dried, dotted them with White Scar.

Here's a picture of the gang so far...just wait till you see all 10 together!

Monolith Conan

That's a wrap till next week on The Art of Caesura!


Drinking: Dark Arts Porter - Trouble Brewing
Reading: Blood Bowl Death Zone Season One (Again)


Next Week:

A place to keep these mummies...
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