Sepoys on the Sands of Egypt : An East India Company Unit for Silver Bayonet

Before I’d finished painting the miniatures I was looking around at terrain and scatter terrain. The first thing that I found was this broken statue from Fenris. It’s a lovely set of bits which could be painted up and literally scattered onto a tabletop, but I decided that I wanted to keep them together.

Step one was to glue the base part of the statue to some plasticard, with a wedge of cork underneath to level it a bit. Next I mixed up some polyfilla with a bit of sand, grit and craft store acrylic paint.

I slathered this mixture onto the rest the pasticard base and tried to sculpt it into sand dune like shapes. For this I used a lot of water on a sculpting tool to add furrows and undulations and smooth the surface, which did have me wondering why I bothered to add the sand and grit?

I then got the remaining two pieces of the statue and pushed them into the polyfilla in the hopes that it would look like they’d been swallowed up by the wind blown sand.

I had quite a bit of the polyfilla mixture left, so I quickly got the ‘North African Desert Building‘ I’d bought from Amera mouldings.

I decided to give this a go as you can’t go wrong for £4 can you? I know a Renedra kit would be stronger and I could do a whole table with different Fogou adobe buildings, but I was intrigued by these.

I watered down my polyfilla mix and daubed it onto the building with an old brush. In hindsight this may have been a mistake, and I should’ve primed the model first as my mix hasn’t bonded properly at all.