Tomb Thursday P42: Out with the Old, In with the Anu-bis

Greetings, fellow worshipers! Tomb Thursday means we’re so darn close to another fab weekend of dice rolling, engaging storytelling, and 3D-print crafting! We think you’re going to love this week’s featured Egyptian-style picks!

Egyptians definitely loved their Gods, and boy howdy, did they worship a bunch of ’em. Our personal fav is Anubis. It’s the ancient Egyptian god of mummification, the afterlife, and the protector of graves. This jackal-headed man is iconic and instantly associated with desert tomb raiding. Thankfully, we’ve got a slick new DnD miniature and a free download so you can get this Lord of the Underworld onto your TTRPG gameboard!

We went to one of our favorite STL watering holes and found this Possessed Pillar miniature by the great mz4250. Even though he did this one up as a statue, we’re going to use it for a squad of Anubis soldiers inside our underground tomb. We just love this guardian-style sculpt and think it fits perfectly into our Egyptian-themed DnD gameboard. And once again, it’s a free download (but consider sending him a tip or subscribing to his Patreon).

DM Ben was happy to give this TTRPG mini a go as we 3D-printed him to fill a 2×2 d20 set of squares (e.g., nice and big). Also, there weren’t any microscopic, hard-to-reach details on this TTRPG model.

• Prime Flat White.
• Body P1: Layer WAR Matt Black.
• Body P2: FAN Uniform Grey drybrush.
• Cloth: ASP Holy White + white drybrush.
• Head Scarf: Layer GSW Komodo Kaki + Brown Wash + light drybrush again.

A few dead-grass tufts and some light sand flocking and Bob’s your uncle.

Next up, we wanted to put some spooky warning signs outside and/or on the road to the tomb. This Undead Skeleton Sign by MrBigTong was absolutely perfect! You just have to remove its supports with kid gloves because this piece is a bit fragile. We lost a few on the table because we get a little overeager during the de-plating process.

Nothing crazy in terms of painting, with all the usual paint pots in play, including ASP Dark Wood, Citadel Contrast Skeleton Horde, ASP Runic Grey, and ASP Pallid Bone. DM Ben wanted these scatter pieces to be more versatile, so he did a stone base with some sand flock in the event he decides to drop these in a future dungeon crawl. We forgot to scribble a little P3 Menoth White Highlight on the sign portion, but that’s an easy fix.

Lastly, DM Ben is trying to remember to sneak in a subtle scatter terrain piece during each desert Egyptian paint sesh, so he has plenty of options for encounter buildouts. This smaller ladder was easy because we were already using ASP Dark Wood and Pallid Bone on the other pieces. Even better, we could use this scatter in any scenario type.

Until next time.