Raiding the Dusty Wastes
Arabian Nights like Arabian Days
Not taking 1,001 nights
I started with the random “Ooh, Shiny!” purchase and thought it’d be a quick and easy paintjob. Nope, I sat around and then tried painting it once before scraping paint and deciding to strip it entirely. After a short amount of time looking back and forth between the mini and the others that were nicely based/painted I thought this would have a proper plinth to stand on and be just as visually interesting. Away I went to creating the stairwell as close to scale as I could get without actually doing mathematics and driving myself batty with sculpting. I know there will be more to add on in the future before this is “done” with details but here is the bare bones with interesting grit texture courtesy of my mainstay Golden pumice additive.
Here you see the base plinth I bought and work upon. I built a small platform of basswood strip and glued a segment of plasticard for the step. On top of all this I used Apoxiesculpt to make the stone both worked and natural where the mini stands. I thought that the initial scimitar for the figure was a bit off (especially after I had dropped it) so I replaced it with a thicker one from Reaper’s weapon mod packs. So far so good with enough open space to detail later.
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