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Title: Cait Sidhe's Fantasy Stuff (Upd 29/04/21)
Post by: Cait Sidhe on May 27, 2015, 11:03:40 PM
So I've been painting these orcs off and on for over a year now and have only really finished now.  ;D

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
(https://i.imgur.com/zCCbsjn.png)(https://i.imgur.com/uHWRa9e.png)

Swordsmen
(https://i.imgur.com/QlFTC1O.png)(https://i.imgur.com/wkBZYN0.png)(https://i.imgur.com/A1siPKI.png)

Spearmen
(https://i.imgur.com/PrqxkGm.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/xIE6JqI.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/krwNGx9.jpg)

Archers
(https://i.imgur.com/ANW1NiL.png)

Shaman (converted from a Blood Drinker)
(https://i.imgur.com/gN0OuTV.jpg)

Group shot of the whole warband including cyclops, shaman and some spearmen in addition to the orcs above.
(https://i.imgur.com/urEvUdp.jpg)

...and now I'm off to jump on the post apoc death car bandwagon.  lol
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: Momotaro on May 27, 2015, 11:56:00 PM
Nice job on the skintones.

Ral Partha figures for the troops?
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: Cait Sidhe on May 28, 2015, 12:19:39 AM
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.
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: Mr Brown on May 28, 2015, 10:35:58 PM
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 ;)

Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: Golgotha on May 28, 2015, 10:43:29 PM
Really love those archers fantastic poses. Thank you for the posting I must get some.
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: Mister Rab on May 29, 2015, 10:33:03 AM
Another vote of approval for the sallow skin tones from me. Which paints did you use?
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: Cait Sidhe on May 29, 2015, 06:49:05 PM
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.  lol 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.

Quote from: Mr Brown
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.  :)
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: Mister Rab on May 30, 2015, 07:21:05 PM
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.

Quote from: Cait Sidhe
Then all of that is wiped out by crappy photography.  lol

 lol I feel your pain!
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: Modhail on June 01, 2015, 07:23:54 PM
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...
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: Cait Sidhe on June 01, 2015, 08:21:39 PM
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).

(https://i.imgur.com/dsZ5nVV.jpg)
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: Modhail on June 02, 2015, 07:55:00 AM
Eeeexccceeellent!  :D
Looks like I found the orcs for my project.
Thank you for the comparison pic!
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: DeafNala on June 02, 2015, 01:03:22 PM
The minis are cool AND the paint jobs are OUTSTANDING. VERY WELL DONE!
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: Jiron on June 02, 2015, 04:03:09 PM
They are sooooo beautifully ugly! I like them very much!
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: Arundel on June 02, 2015, 07:41:48 PM
Very nice work!
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: Cait Sidhe on December 08, 2015, 11:01:39 PM
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.  lol

(https://i.imgur.com/2X9b4jK.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/yxwL8CI.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/16t7YSH.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/LbHGk2b.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/JENGUuo.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/738y5Gp.jpg)

Might even get to do a bit of gaming with them this weekend...  :D
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: Cait Sidhe on November 14, 2018, 11:19:45 PM
Well I haven't added to these guys in some time but decided to do some more for Orctober, because why not? Painted up the command pack as well as the drillmaster which I'll probably use as a beastmaster or someone to poke gobbos or something.

Bloodmaster Chief
(https://i.imgur.com/P7ezcN9.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/coSP4KF.jpg)

Drillmaster
(https://i.imgur.com/M6dxk0u.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/vzzBm4M.jpg)

Musician
(https://i.imgur.com/slwe7uF.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/IetBWFP.jpg)

Standard
(https://i.imgur.com/aXZlub2.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/3RXxyBp.jpg)


Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: boneio on November 15, 2018, 12:44:24 PM
Lovely band of orcs!

That command group is great, may I ask where they are from?
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: Cait Sidhe on November 15, 2018, 01:10:10 PM
Lovely band of orcs!

That command group is great, may I ask where they are from?

Cheers, They're Ral Partha "Gargantua Orcz" which are available from Ral Partha EU. I have pretty much the entire set to get through at some point.

http://www.ralparthaeurope.co.uk/shop/ral-partha-fantasy-c-37/fantasy-armies-c-37_39/gargantua-orcz-c-37_39_51/
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: steders on November 16, 2018, 08:49:18 AM
How did I miss the command pack when I bought mine!?!
I got a pile of them for use as LOTR Olag hai, not painted yet obviously
Love your paint schemes
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: boneio on November 16, 2018, 01:00:09 PM
Nice, thank you. I love RPE's stuff so they'll go on my rather long list for the future!
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: Cait Sidhe on November 10, 2019, 09:19:50 PM
Another year, another addition to the orc warband, finally finished the mounted orc conversions. I've also fixed the photobucket links in the thread and added a bunch more pics to the first post.

So the Ral Partha Gargantua Orcz range does have mounted options but I'm not keen on them. There's two mounts but only one pose each and one pose per orc type (spearman, archer) with one of the mounts being so large it's more a monster than cavalry. Anyway I picked up some Reaper Bones orcs that were sculpted by the same sculptor (Bob Olley) and some cheap plastic dinosaurs to roll my own.

Starting from this...
(https://i.imgur.com/VZKDigi.jpg)

To this, prior to painting:
(https://i.imgur.com/HygMpPd.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/jWJrp6o.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/FD41UAQ.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/QsxBblx.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/NKPLPvm.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/DQBLIoW.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/0DxHPEV.jpg)

(https://i.imgur.com/A3VCjD9.jpg)
Title: Re: Orc Warband
Post by: djbii on November 11, 2019, 10:23:28 AM
Nice work on the dino riders :-)
Title: Re: Ral Partha Orc Warband
Post by: Cait Sidhe on November 16, 2019, 04:57:38 PM
Decided to take a pic of the warband thus far, unfortunately managed to get a single blurry pic before my camera gave up... still, starting to look vaguely impressive (for me).  ;D

(https://i.imgur.com/7nHJsTi.jpg)
Title: Re: Ral Partha Orc Warband
Post by: Nordic1980s on November 22, 2019, 11:12:04 PM
Nice work on orc dino riders!
Title: Re: Ral Partha Orc Warband
Post by: DivisMal on November 23, 2019, 05:42:13 AM
Pretty cool thread. I like the skintones and the sculpts are really cool.
Title: Re: Ral Partha Orc Warband
Post by: Swordisdrawn on November 23, 2019, 07:39:45 AM
Lovely family photo of the orcs. Very nice work on the dino riders. The sculpts are so full of charactor too
Title: Re: Ral Partha Orc Warband
Post by: Sunjester on November 23, 2019, 08:54:11 AM
They look superb. I have a load of theses as well, I'll have to check out the Bones orcs now!
Title: Re: Cait Sidhe's Fantasy Stuff
Post by: Cait Sidhe on April 07, 2020, 05:31:18 PM
Thought I would repurpose this thread instead of creating some new ones as I get stuff painted. Actually finished a little warband and got the terrible pics to prove it! Been working on some undead for a little while as I work toward have a few different forces for skirmish/RPGs.

One of my favourite Confrontation models, the necromancer Ejhin De Vanth that I finally managed to pick up a few months ago.
(https://i.imgur.com/TJC7twf.jpg)

An old vampire model from Troll Forged. The face was a bit flat so I gave him a bat nose and longer ears.
(https://i.imgur.com/Sd5QJRv.jpg)

A bunch of old GW ghouls I started repainting years ago hence the horrible thick blood on the knives, I couldn't be bothered scraping it off to repaint.
(https://i.imgur.com/pZZrcfK.jpg)

More old GW models, this time the original plastic skeletons. Used the Skeleton Horde contrast paint on these, about the only one I've found useful so far. I padded out the numbers with a couple of awful bones skeletons, they're from the first KS and it shows.
(https://i.imgur.com/RQGaWr6.jpg)

Where would an undead force be without some zombies. Mostly Heresy (and old Spyglass now owned by Heresy) padded out with some bones minis again which look better than the skeletons. I tried to repose the Bones zombies with hot water but after a while they unfortunately reverted back.
(https://i.imgur.com/UeSqQU7.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/QPdVump.jpg)

Oh and a Bone Golem for when you need some muscle... without any muscles ironically. This is a Mage Knight model I stripped and repainted. used the contrast paint again for the bones, worked quite well with the texture.
(https://i.imgur.com/WGPXidY.jpg)
Title: Re: Cait Sidhe's Fantasy Stuff
Post by: Grumpy Gnome on April 07, 2020, 07:30:58 PM
Some great brushwork in this thread!
Title: Re: Cait Sidhe's Fantasy Stuff
Post by: Melnibonean on April 11, 2020, 11:39:56 AM
Some really lovely brush work. I really like that vampire figure and those Ral Partha orcs look great.
Title: Re: Cait Sidhe's Fantasy Stuff
Post by: Cait Sidhe on April 29, 2021, 11:22:48 AM
Wow I really should update this thread more often... Managed to actually paint a bunch more stuff over the last year.

I found for some reason I had like 50 or so Red Box Games zombies so decided to add some more to the shambling horde.
(https://i.imgur.com/1osjufV.jpg)

They're a bit more slight but blend in with the rest just fine.
(https://i.imgur.com/tpzgKgo.jpg)

Also finished up some nasty giant worms from the long defunct Troll-Forged Miniatures. Not explicitly undead so they'll probably find a place in multiple evil factions.
(https://i.imgur.com/cE3qi4w.jpg)

...and finally for the undead a 3D printed dire bat/varghulf. I picked up a 3D printer last year with the original intention of using it solely for terrain but it turns out to be fairly capable of printing minis too, even if not as well as a resin printer. Painted this guy up to match the vampire I did earlier.
(https://i.imgur.com/SsNFXkk.jpg)
Title: Re: Cait Sidhe's Fantasy Stuff (Upd 29/04/21)
Post by: Bloggard on April 29, 2021, 11:42:09 AM
my goodness, some great gribbly stuff there!
Title: Re: Cait Sidhe's Fantasy Stuff (Upd 29/04/21)
Post by: Little Odo on April 29, 2021, 02:57:12 PM
I really like those worms and varghulf
Title: Re: Cait Sidhe's Fantasy Stuff (Upd 29/04/21)
Post by: Reed on April 29, 2021, 03:02:48 PM
Wow, that 3d printed Varghulf is really great, even more considering it doesn't come from a resin printer.