Tomb Raiding with the Great Belzoni
Making a Start with Board & Scatter Terrain
I bought a large but cheap picture frame and recycled the glass but kept the MDF back. I then used pins to secure the MDF a bit more securely and added wood bracings with old packing polystyrene sheets to it with No More Nails. I’m not sure how I’ll base it yet but thinking of a mix of Filler, Sand and PVA (with some craft paint). I’ll do some experiments and see how that goes.
Did some basing tests on my first bit of scatter terrain using the Filler, Sand and PVA and it seems to work OK. Used a nice 3D-printed ruined obelisk from Highland Miniatures at its centre. I went on to make some Palm Trees using thick paper clips, milliput and some fake fish tank plants from the local pet store.
I’m also in the process of 3D printing a feck ton of Egyptian bits, many of which can be had for free from MyMiniFactory in their Scan The World project. In particular, I found a print from a chap called Thomas Flynn who used to work at the British Museum who had scanned Rameses’ sculpted head which Belzoni dragged away. The head had fallen off a bigger statue the remains of which are still at the Ramesseum to this day. I’m going to make an attempt to hand-sculpt it. I started by building it up with foam-core, tinfoil and bamboo skewers and I’ll have at it with air-drying clay.
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