This gentleman is meant to be a surprise guest in my Pulp .45 Adventures campaign, but as all the players involved are expecting an enraged mummy to appear at some point I might as well post him up!

He is of course a Games Workshop Tomb King figure, although the blade on his weapon has been reduced to a sensible size. I enjoy painting warm gold tones so he pretty much got a blanket gold treatment for his armor, instead of the more complex cobalt paneling you see painted on the GW sales demo figure. Frankly my life is too short to paint to that level of detail.

I quite like the figure too. The pointed claw makes him an ideal Pulp monster. I imagine he’s shouting something like ‘Hey you! Yeah you! PUT that mortuary urn DOWN – don’t make me come over there!’ but in Ancient Egyptian of course.

This is probably the clearest shot I’ve managed of a figure to date. I splashed out a whole $20nz and bought two cheap table lamps, fitted them with blue daylight bulbs and set them up like this tutorial suggests. I also used the camera’s flash and the end result is passable imho.

Here’s the first two Egyptian cultists finished for my current Pulp .45 Adventure campaign. I had a little difficulty painting them as more swarthy gentlemen and for some reason their skin tones look rather flat in the photo. Possibly it’s a little out of focus, although I might do a touch more highlighting too. I’ve also not bothered giving them eyeballs as they all appear to be squinting into the Egyptian sun.

I’m quite happy with their suits and fez though. I was initially tempted to go with dark blue suits, as worn by the gentlemen from the Order of the Cruciform Sword in ‘Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade’, however having lived in the Middle East for a while as a kid know how impractical dark colours are in the heat.

These Artizan Design figures were a joy to paint and each has an excellent and very distinctive face. Can’t recommend them enough, although I do wish Artizan had more than just three figures in this style!

Quiet around here lately innit? I am still modelling, however I’m painting 28mm Pulp figures at the moment and painting always seems to take me an eternity. I suspect this is why I’ve never finished a 40k or WHFB army.

On the paint station I have:

• A Games Workshop Tomb King although I trimmed back that ridiculous curved blade to more realistic proportions.
• The three Artizan Designs Middle Eastern gentlemen I received a while back.

Photos up later this week as I finish them.