Hoi,
Arrakis is next on my way to Noel's Comet and as it is a Desert planet some desert themed entries are required.
Remember my friend Martijn? The one who owns a FLGS? Well he asked me whether I would like to paint up the figures from: "Ankh, Gods of Egypt" the boardgame done by the people at CMON games. If that's not deserty-themed I don't know what is. I could tell you quite a lot about how this set of figures got painted with blood, tears, sweat and more blood, in between house renovations and painting the other entries of this Challenge, but the monster project is done and I am mighty proud. Martijn has it at the gamingroom of his store now and people can enjoy using it and that makes me happy.
Let's start with the Gods, the core box comes with 5 factions, each led by one of the great Gods of Ancient Egypt. You have 6 footsoldiers for every god and some camels that represent commodities and supplies. There's also a batch of un-aligned "Guardians" monsters you can unlock and utilise for your own faction.
The Gods from l.t.r. backrow: Ra, Osiris and Amun. Front: Isis and Anubis
The Gods with their footsoldiers:
The Guardians:
An Androsphinx:
An Apep:
A Giant Scorpion:
3 Satet:
Cat Mummies/ Spirit host
Farao's Mummies:
The camels:
Pointswise this bunch proves to be a bit of an headache:
- I am counting the Gods as 54mm figures so that's 50 points
- there's 45 figures of appr. 28mm scale so that's 225 points
- the camels are near 10mm figures times 30 that makes 60 points
- there's the Arrakis bonus (if Tamsin considers this entry Desert-like enough) which makes for a grand total of 355 points. For scale reference I have included the picture below showing a Space Marine in the middle for reference.
Cheers Sander
Well, that was an unexpected points-bomb! That's a great set of desert-themed figures for Arrakis..
Tamsin
