The Mummy Ardeth Bay

This time around we have another one that was sitting almost finished on my work table for a while. Another Gillman Productions kit, it Boris Karloff as Ardeth Bay from the 1932 film The Mummy.

This was an easy one, only 2 pieces of resin - the bust and the pillar base. There was only one bubble in the pillar base and with the Vallejo Plastic Putty, it was a super simply repair.

This was an excellent likeness of Boris and I start out with  a reference pic of the man.

 As all the photos were B&W I did rely on a few other images of this figure showing a red fez, white shirt and some sort of brown jacket - 

Trying something new I tried using the "fabric" spray for the fez rather than just paint.  Ultimately the fez ended up looking like faux leather rather than fabric. Still, it wasn't bad and did show some texture. 
from there I wanted to have a go at the pillar base. Others who've done this kit just had some sort of single color and then a wash over the hieroglyphics. I wanted to do something else. I googled, and found this image - 

Then used most of the same colors on my pillar - 

To me the coat matched the sand around the pillar a little too much. So I got out some Vallejo Orange Brown and base coated the jacket again. Then adding some darker wash to the creases, and chocolate brown to the laces of the shirt which was painted Ivory.  Then the hieroglyphics looked a little too bright, so I mist coated the base in Vallejo Buff and called it done. Thanks for looking. 

(trying to match the lighting of the famous "glowing eyes" image)