Cait Sidhe's Fantasy Stuff (Upd 29/04/21)

[Cait Sidhe]

So I've been painting these orcs off and on for over a year now and have only really finished now. 

I've posted pics elsewhere but thought since I've signed up here now I might as well post them here too. Just going for the group shots so I don't spam with a huge string of images...

Black Orc Warlord


Swordsmen


Spearmen


Archers


Shaman (converted from a Blood Drinker)


Group shot of the whole warband including cyclops, shaman and some spearmen in addition to the orcs above.


...and now I'm off to jump on the post apoc death car bandwagon. 

[Momotaro]

Nice job on the skintones.

Ral Partha figures for the troops?

[Cait Sidhe]

Nice job on the skintones.

Ral Partha figures for the troops?

Yeah the orcs are the Ral Partha Garantua Orcs. The cyclops is also available from Ral partha Europe as part of "Das Schwarze Auge" range.

[Mr Brown]

Lovely paint jobs on those. Second the sentiment with the skin tones; refreshing to have something that isn't in your face green (although I do like my goblins!).

I'll need to crack on with my band if we ever plan to get that game organised. It's only been what? 4-5 years now since or last one

[Golgotha]

Really love those archers fantastic poses. Thank you for the posting I must get some.

[Mister Rab]

Another vote of approval for the sallow skin tones from me. Which paints did you use?

[Cait Sidhe]

Another vote of approval for the sallow skin tones from me. Which paints did you use?

Thanks, the regular orc's skin base is vallejo model colour Desert Yellow, shaded with a mix of desert yellow and dark brown and highlighted with desert yellow and bone white. Then all of that is wiped out by crappy photography.  Initially i used desert yellow and saddle brown for shading but as the middle archer shows it was a little subtle so I switched to using german camo black brown in the mix.

I'll need to crack on with my band if we ever plan to get that game organised. It's only been what? 4-5 years now since or last one Wink

Hopefully sooner than later. 

[Mister Rab]

Thanks, the regular orc's skin base is vallejo model colour Desert Yellow, shaded with a mix of desert yellow and dark brown and highlighted with desert yellow and bone white.

Thank you, I've been looking to widen my palette of khaki/tan/drab colours and hadn't considered yellows.

Then all of that is wiped out by crappy photography. 

  I feel your pain!

[Modhail]

That's some very nice painting on some nice figures.

How tall are they compared to more modern sculpts? 
I've been looking for suitable orcs for my fantasy project, and these could fit the bill, size permitting...

[Cait Sidhe]

That's some very nice painting on some nice figures.

How tall are they compared to more modern sculpts? 
I've been looking for suitable orcs for my fantasy project, and these could fit the bill, size permitting...

They're surprisingly big actually, I would guess they really earned the name "Gargantua orcz" back in the day. The regular orcs are about 28mm to the eyes (well the ones standing up the straightest) and the warlord is about 32mm to the eyes. The other orcs in the range like the "Assault Line Cleavers" are bigger than the regular orcs as well at about 30mm.

I took a quick comparison with a Heresy ganger, Hasslefree mini and a GW Orc (no idea if it's current or not).

[Modhail]

Eeeexccceeellent! 
Looks like I found the orcs for my project.
Thank you for the comparison pic!

[DeafNala]

The minis are cool AND the paint jobs are OUTSTANDING. VERY WELL DONE!

[Jiron]

They are sooooo beautifully ugly! I like them very much!

[Arundel]

Very nice work!

[Cait Sidhe]

Apologies for a bit of thread necromancy but I did a few black orcs to go with these chaps recently so though I would throw them up in the same thread. Crappy photos as per usual... in fact worse looking at the originals. 





Might even get to do a bit of gaming with them this weekend...