HANDS At this point I painted his hands in the same colour as his  face. Another error I’m afraid, I was expecting him to be  wearing gloves, which I would have painted black.   THE KHOPESH OF OSIRIS His big sword, in other words, and it is a mighty big one.  Good job he is the reincarnated spirit of a god then to  weld such a weapon. But it is nicely detailed with easy to  pick out coloured metalwork all along the blade. It is a bit  fiddly to do but really worth it in the end.  Red 1. AP-WP1124 - Oak Brown  plus AP-WP1105 - Dragon Red 2. AP-WP1105 - Dragon Red 3. AP-WP1104 - Pure Red 4. AP-WP1104 - Pure Red  plus AP-WP1106 - Lava Orange Green 1. AP-WP1112 - Angel Green 2. AP-WP1112 - Angel Green  plus AP-WP1109 - Goblin Green 3. + more AP-WP1109 - Goblin Green 4. pure AP-WP1109 - Goblin Green Osiris (the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead) was commonly depicted with green skin (the ancient Egyptian colour of rebirth) and a red sash so it is nice to reflect these in his khopesh. Osiris was the posthumous father of Horus, whose eye Akhenaton wears in his makeup also Akhenaton’s black clothes could allude to the fertility of the Nile floodplain. Sorry getting a bit carried away there…

slightly more than I would normally use. Fortunately the  strokes required for the design are very small, but you  need your steadiest of hands working so close to the  eyes. Try out the design first before you commit yourself  to the doing it on the model.  I also painted in his  eyebrows, I don’t normally paint on eyebrows, but they  go well with the eye makeup, in fact I wasn’t really sure  whether they were meant to be his eyebrows or part of  the eyeliner! The eye makeup is of course a version of  the traditional Eye of Horus design.  SHOES A DIFFERENT WHITE Akhenaton’s shoes are also white, although again I  hadn’t spotted this! Even so I wanted them to be a  different white from that I had done before (even if that  white didn’t remain white in the end!). So for this white I  started with Yellow. As it happened I painted the soles of  his shoes white too, really they should have been black  according to the artwork.  1. AP-WP1121 - Desert Yellow 2. AP-WP1121 - Desert Yellow  plus AP-WP1102 - Matt White 3. plus more AP-WP1102 - Matt White 4. pure AP-WP1102 - Matt White