Tomb Thursday P44: Tile Work

Greetings, fellow sand walkers! Tomb Thursday comin’ at you hot this week with a new DnD miniature and some slick terrain tiles! Please explore below for more!

Whether it’s a freshly printed miniature or terrain piece, we really try to do bulk painting for our tomb pieces because they share so many core colors. Sand is everywhere in Egyptian desert themes, so efficiency is key, as there are only so many precious hobby hours in any given joyous weekend.

Let’s start with our nasty crouching tiger. This sneaky Scorpion Cultist is by the masterful mz4250 and is a free download. There’s no denying this one absolutely belongs in your new tomb or even in a nearby town (because the adventurers are getting too close for comfort).

DM Ben was pressed into service for these guys due to timing and backlog with good ol’ resident painter Kimmy Utah. These 3D-printed miniatures are a bit on the smaller side, so there were definitely some nerves going into this paint sesh.

• Prime Flat White.
• Skin: FAN Barbarian Flesh.
• Necklace: GSW Tropical Turquoise.
• Cloth: FAN Holy White (several coats).
• Cape: ASP Blood Red + Red Wash.
• Wash: Soft Tone.

Basically, these were the same colors we used on those creepy Tomb Servants. He just had different angles to contend with.

As longtime 3DRPGers know, Aether Studios is our official terrain tile partner for our ongoing Beneath the Sands series. And we’re going to share some basic, yet very important tiles that you’ll want to 3D print a mittful of.

Let’s start with this special request we floated to the President of Aether Studios on their very friendly Discord channel many moons ago. This 6×6 d20 floor tile is sooooooooooooooo helpful. You’re going to want to run off and batch paint a bunch of these critical tiles. Now if only we could get Dwarven Forge to see the light and do something similiar for all their terrain themes, right? 😉

Also, these smaller 4×2 rectangular floor tiles are incredibly handy when you build out your tomb rooms without a view. We would recommend batch printing and painting a bunch of these very handy Egyptian tiles, too. For all these floor tiles, we suggest using our tried-and-true (and very easy) TTRPG desert paint scheme.

Just as important as the key floor tiles, you want a big bunch of wall tiles. Thankfully, Aether Studios knows how important these tiles are to your gameboard builds, so they include all sorts of amazing variations in every desert-themed set.

DM Ben paints these mostly the same way each time, using Dwarven Forge Pokorny Paint Deep Lava to get that weathered red look you see so often in actual historic tomb photos. If you want to mix those tiles up once in a while, add in some ASP Hoplite Gold to some of the awesome wall decor pieces.

Also, they have a plain version (that isn’t totally smooth – thank goodness) and these really handy corner pieces so all your tomb rooms just aren’t square boxes. It’s a personal call whether you want to add different wall accent colors to the hieroglyphic walls and some of the slick symbols. DM Ben just does them randomly to a few pieces if time allows.

Until next time!