Egyptian Tomb Blocks
The main entrance way.
Flushed with the success of my Dungeon blocks I set about building an Egyptian version for my Ars Magica campaign. I went for the same size balsa wood but this time I cut smaller sections, none are longer than 30scale feet, and I made lots of special items that weren’t available in resin. To preserve my sanity I made the individual bricks a lot bigger too and painted them on in a regular pattern rather than the dungeon’s crazy paving style.
The colours I used were a base coat of Humbrol 5062 leather than the lines were painted with Games Workshop Swamp Brown, Humbrol 5063 sand was used as the highlight colour.
I painted an Egyptian style border on the big blocks and decorated the special items with a mixture of different manufacturers’ paints. This lot took me about a month to do all together; it was a lot of fun and I kept thinking of new things to do. Again, everything’s lasted about 15 years with lots of use in that time.
In the following photos all the different components are shown and some of them are used to give an idea of the virtually limitless layouts you can make.
Most of the figures in the pictures were painted by my good friend Simon Webb.
Here are the basic pieces, the small blocks.
The steps and ramps.
Both together to illustrate some of the possiblities.
The large blocks with their decorative border.
A set of pillars.
Some doorways. (based on the exits from the Lemmings game).
Here's an obelisk, a pool and a container for a royal sarcophagus.
Some statues made from cheap 54mm plastic figures.
My Sphinx, made from DAS Pronto. (I don't pretend to be a sculptor).
The Gate of the Eye.
The Elemental Portal (not actually Egyptian this one).
The Professor finds an inscription....
Barrington-Smythe prepares to defend himself.....
The Professor investigates the royal sarcophagus.
A strange gem...
