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14 August 2025
It’s a little-known fact that Egyptian tombs are a crowded affair. The main dude is always accompanied by his faithful servants, advisor priests, and some of his best warriors. And that can only mean one thing: we need some mighty mummies roaming the sandy halls of our 3D-printed tombs. Let’s see how our 3D printer can answer the call.
Now, the Internet is packed with many mummies for us to choose from, both in the pre-painted and in the STL variety. We’ll certainly show off what you can pull off the retail shelf, but this is a DnD blog after all, so let’s see what we can make from a bottle of resin for starters.
The Egyptians themselves called a mummy a ‘sah’, which is pretty cool because when we look up synonyms for “mummy”, we just get different words for mom. And that’s definitely not what is going to lurk down our tomb hallways. It’s also unlikely they’ll be leaning in for a hug. 😉
Once again, we get to grab an STL off the free pile, thanks to Schlossbauer’s amazing 3D-print collection. He calls this one “Gibdo” and our lumbering lurker came off our resin print plate like a champ. We especially like the bulk on this guy. For whatever reason, we see too many creators make their mummy STLs super skinny and fragile. There’s a lot of effort involved in transforming the liquid form into the final miniature on the game table, so we need them to last.
Thankfully, this STL is very forgiving in terms of painting, so DM Ben didn’t mind grabbing a brush for the team here. However, he had been eyeing YouTuber Blastercaded Painting’s suggested bandages scheme for a while and felt this was as good a time as any to muster up some courage and try it. DM Ben really enjoys watching the pros and seeing what specific colors they assign to different sections of a model. Plus, this jolly fella injects a lot of humor in his vids to keep everything lighthearted and fun.
Now, he tends to lean more into comic book characters and Star Wars themes more than our beloved DnD genre, but we still really enjoy his tutorials. Since so many paint manufacturers often come up with the absolute worst names for their colors, we look to the experts to share what color works best with what portion of a mini or scatter terrain.
Army Painter Speedpaints certainly give us much simpler paint schemes, but DM Ben really wants to keep learning, so he slips these types of tutorials in once in a while to see if he can absorb some of their techniques and wise color choices.
Normally, the moment DM Ben sees mix color 1 with color two as a step, he immediately wants to bow out because it can be really hard to consistently get those mixtures right in future rounds, but hey, we all gotta push ourselves sometimes, right?!
Blastercaded Painting was using an older AV Bonewhite paint brand, so we had to swap it. DM Ben also didn’t like his initial results, so he added a spotty wash to make the overall miniature a little darker. Then he went back over some of the bandages with Reaper’s Bleachbone as an edging drybrush. The eyes and teeth got another offwhite just to make those tiny details pop a little more.
Our professional painter also suggested ASP Sand Golem for the base, which we see more for leafy foliage, but we’ll have to try it on a future mini base or piece of desert scatter terrain.
As we mentioned above, we’re planning on introducing several more mummy miniatures into this series, so for now, this inaugural entry will be of the wandering monster and random strolling variety.
Side note: We only realized at the very end of writing this DnD Egyptian blog post that Gibdo translates to undead, mummified corpses commonly appearing within Graveyards and Dungeons. They are one of the more resilient enemies in The Legend of Zelda. #epic
Until next time!
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