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| | The temple on Philae island
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| Since my jorney to Egypt in 2002 I am fascainated by the old egyptian temples and I wanted to build a model of one of those. But there were no molds from HirstArts on this topic and my own attempts to make molds in this style somehow got oput on hold some time.
But when the egyptian molds came out, all these sleeping ideas suddenly awoke and I started to plan and build my temple. The egyptian themed terrain is centered around a huge modular temple whose parts can be used as stand alone or arranged in any way that seems fit for gaming. And of course, there is the pyramid...
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| | Egyptian temple - scheme
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| Egyptian temples are all built so they follow more or less the same rule. I wonder how the old egyptians held to this rule for so many centuries. They must have been believing in tradition a lot!
Temples are usually built in a somewhat linear fashion and usually start with a pylon, followed with a pillar lines courtyard, then comes a pillar hall and then the inner chambers and the sanctuary. But this scheme is free for variations of all kind, there are temples with more than one pylon and more courtyards or go and have one temples inside another. The old egyptians were quite inventive here.
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| | Small pylon
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| | Small pylon, rear view
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| The small pylon was my first egyptian terrain piece and it took quite long to complete. It is not that hard to build, I followed the plans of HirstArts very closely (perhaps too closely...) but I had difficulties with the "antiquing" painting method. It took my a few tries until I got the knack.
The building itself is not completed yet I still have to glue the parts together and I want to add a floor of some kind. I will wait with the floor until the egyptian dungeon builder comes out.
This could be the second pylon of a larger temple or the first (and only) pylon of a smaller temple.
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| | Small pillar hall
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| | Small pillar hall, detail view
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| | View from above
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| The small pillar hall was built following the HirstArts plans quite closely. But I did add more "doors" to the building since it would be sort of a central piece for the temple and there would at least have to be access to the inner chambers and sanctuary through the hall. The side entries are for gaming purposes, I thought it would make the building more interesting.
Since an original egyptian pillar hall would have its interior filled with columns I added them too. These columns can be removed for gaming purposes, it would be next to imposible to move minitures in a pillar filled structure like this.
The building came out quite well, I had to repaint it once but now I like the color. I also added a floor where I did some experimenting with the new egyptian floor tiles.
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| | Egyption Pavillion
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| | Doorway to the Pavillion
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| The idea for the pavillion came while reading a book about egyptian temples. There was a small structure inside Karnak temple district that was labeled "Pavillion" and contained the ceremonial barques in which the gods icons were carried about in sacred precessions. I immediately liked the idea and began planning a structure. The real pavillion had more columns, I think 6x4 or so, but I had to make the building smaller so that it looked smaller when viewed against the pillar hall. I don't think that there are real temples with 3 columns on a side, but it wouldn't do otherwise.
I added those doorways, they seem to fit in quite nicely and closely represent their real counterparts. I also made the columns higher than those in the pillar hall. I compared the drawing in the book and these columns were very high so I roughly doubled the height of the columns. When assembling the pavillion for the first time, I realized that they were far too high so I cut them do one and a half "standard column height". I also made the walls one brick higher to compensate for the higher columns.
I like the structure very much in spite of the fact that it is quite hard to move miniatures inside. But the building is small enough to neglect this issue - at least I think so.
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| | A ruin
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| | Are there trasures hidden in the sand?
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| The piece itself is made of wood with the wallpaper glued on top to simulate the desert. I then added various bits and pieces of egyptian rubble. I even tried to use the cracked floor for egyptian floor tiles. They can be used, the antiquing paint method does make them reasonalby nice. And I learned a lesson: Paint first, then glue together! Painting was quite... complicated sometimes...
This piece rather belongs to the desert themed terrain category. |
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| | A sunken temple
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| | Sunken temple, detail view
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| I wondered if it was possible to make a building that gave the impression of being sunk into the sand. I made the upper portion of a small pillar hall and glued it to the usual base. Looked nice, but something still missed. So I tried to simulate the effect of some columns having tilted a litte in the sand. I don't know if this is technically possible but it sure looks good! It is a pity that there are no other ruin pieces and fallen stones on the set, but I imagine they would have sunk inti the sand, too.
The upper portion of the tempel is completly flat on purpose this adds to stackability when storing these pieces.
This piece rather belongs to the desert themed terrain category. |
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| | The Pyramids of Gizeh
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| Everybody who hears the word "Egypt" instantly thinks of pyramids. Me too, how stange! So any collection of egyptian themed terrain without a pyramid would have to be considered at least incomplete.
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| | Stepped pyramid
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| | Stepped pyramid from above
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| The stepped pyramid was the result of me trying to build anything else from the stones of the Egyptian Tower Mold than a temple pylon. It has been designed as an accessable hill for Warhammer FB. The steps are not glued together to allow individual placement on the battlefield.
Looks like I have finally mastered the "antiquing" painting method, this building looks exactly like what I imagined it to look. It seems I used a "wrong" oil paint, which was too dark and too covering. The new color is a little transparent and costs even less!
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