Da Orcs are 'ere

Here are the mighty Black Orcs. This is once again from the brilliant Warhammer range Orc & Goblin army set. The painting of these figures was easy enough even though the detail involved, especially the wear and tear of the armour, was very tedious since it had to be done ten times; and that's a lot of chipping.

The skin colour was pretty basic to do. Dark green for the base colour, a lighter green drybrushed as the main colour and then pick out the highlighted areas (such as top of ears, front of face etc..) with a mix of that same light green with an even lighter green to make it blend better instead of just that lighter green painted on.

The armour was done simply by coating it all in a black colour and then adding metallic colour on random areas of that armour where i felt that the most chipping of the armour would occur. Places like the glove area joints, feet joints and random chipping on shoulders, legs etc.. I think the result was pretty good especially seeing how easy it actually is (though time consuming) to do the wear and tear.

This the General of the army Gimgor Ironhide done exactly the same way as the Black Orc regiment. He is just posted here because i think he looks great as a General and as the main focus of your army.

That's Grimgor from the back. The base, like the Black Orcs, was done by painting it in a sand colour, PVA glue on it and then dipping it in stones to create that rocky, desert effect. The static grass was added later once the base was dry.

The horns on their helmet were done in a very simple manner. Brown was streaked by doing straight lines on the horns, taking care to leave a gap in between each line. On that line bleached bone was used ( bleached bone is like white but with a little grey mixed in) on the brown line previously created but always leaving a bit of brown near the top. Finally pure white was used on that same line again but this time concentrating more on the bottom of the horn. Easy, time consuming too but very worth the effort in the end.