FACE MAKE-UP
At last I plucked up the
courage to do the face
make-up. I studied the
picture of Thutmose III
and did my best to
reproduce that on the
model. The make-up
was done in AP-WP1101
- Matt Black, but thinned
courage to do the face
make-up. I studied the
picture of Thutmose III
and did my best to
reproduce that on the
model. The make-up
was done in AP-WP1101
- Matt Black, but thinned
THE EYE OF HORUS
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.
plus 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 Thutmose III wears in his makeup also Thutmose
III’s black clothes could allude to the fertility of the Nile
floodplain. Sorry getting a bit carried away there…
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.
plus 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 Thutmose III wears in his makeup also Thutmose
III’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 make-up, in fact I wasn’t really sure
whether they were meant to be his eyebrows or part of
the eye-liner! The eye make-up is of course a version of
the traditional Eye of Horus design.
SHOES
A DIFFERENT WHITE
Thutmose III’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
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 make-up, in fact I wasn’t really sure
whether they were meant to be his eyebrows or part of
the eye-liner! The eye make-up is of course a version of
the traditional Eye of Horus design.
SHOES
A DIFFERENT WHITE
Thutmose III’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
