Sepoys on the Sands of Egypt : An East India Company Unit for Silver Bayonet

The craft store paint mixed into the polyfilla had taken care of the base color of the ‘sand’, so the fist stage proper was to drybrush some vallejo Bone White. I then added a wash of slightly diluted citadel Seraphim Sepia and used army painter Pallid Bone to paint the pieces of broken statue.

I also started to must Bone White on the building, but I quickly realised that this was a fine way to use up a whole bottle of paint very quickly so I switched to craft store acrylics again, mixing up an approximate match from the colours that I had available.

At this point I realised that the rather dull detailing of the doors and windows would be lost in a thick layer of paint, so I snipped a strip of bamboo (a candle splint rather than a coffee stirrer) into lengths and glued them over the ones on the model. I then washed everything in army painter Hardened Leather speedpaint: diluted for the building and undiluted for the doors and shutters. 

A few tufts later and I’m calling them both done and ready for use.

And that’s the project done… for now. 

When I get the book and play a scenario I’ll either reopen this or create a new project for a battle report. I might even get myself some Fogou adobe houses and the Renedra mud brick house for a comparison. 

Right now I’m going to open a Fry’s Turkish Delight, pour myself a glass of Indian whisky and bask in the warm glow of my golden button. Thanks again for that, cheers.