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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Evil Doctor on 16 November 2015, 10:24:16 AM
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I've been inspired by Hobgoblin's excellent thread to agree that to me, grey is the colour! The colour of Orcs that is. Here is a small sample of my preslotta Orcs (and a Troll with a repaired tree-club) with my favoured skin colour. I really hate the look of ‘greeskins’ - I think they generally look daft and to me are synonymous with the comedy goblins so prevalent from various (and one in particular) miniature manufacturers in the 80′s/90′s. I really like my Orcs savage, cruel and evil, and I think the Perry ‘fantasy tribe’ Orcs for Citadel hit the nail on the head.
Anyone else out there agree with my anti-green rantings? ;D
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very nice, and I agree the bright green is a bit much. your grey has a nice sickly paler one would expect from cave dwellers
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The Grey Guys look TERRIFIC. That is a FINE idea for the Orcs ...& other subterranean types. Highlighting almost to white might be cool, although the Lads look fine as is. GREAT & INSPIRING WORK!
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These look great in grey! I would say that mine are more "fish-white" (like Alan Garner's svart-alfar), but my terrible photographic skills mean that I have to use my phone-camera's lowest light setting, which makes them greyer. I wanted mine to look convincingly subterranean. I'm also working up some sallow, "swart" and black ones for Tolkien-themed warbands.
I like the red one on your blog too. I'd imagine he fits in nicely with his grey-skinned kin. A bit of variety's always good. I have a few duplicates, which I'll do with black hides (again echoing Garner's svarts, some of which are black).
Have you seen Duff's astonishing Armoured Orcs (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=73535.0)? Or these terrific specimens by blackstone (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=72530.30)? And - possibly the finest old Perry orc I've seen - this one by Cubs (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=74424.0)?
The old Perry orcs are indeed superb (and there are so many variants! (http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Orcs_-_FTO_Fantasy_Tribe_(solid_base)#FTO-13_Orc_riding_Giant_War-Wyvern)).
What's so great about the Perry orcs - the Fantasy Tribe and Armoured Orc ranges, along with associated models and the very first generation of slotta-based orcs - is that they are convincingly horrendous without being cartoony or steroidal. Rather than looking like oiled-up bodybuilders, they look hungry. And that, of course, is scarier. The current generation of Citadel orcs might steal your rack in the gym or make off with someone's suntan lotion; the Perry orcs would eat you!
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Some lovely models in those threads, out mine to shame!
What I love about the Perry Orcs is threefold:
1) They don't look stupid, they look mean! Brutish, nasty, but not dim-witted.
2) As you say there are loads of variations and they are quite cheap these days, which makes collecting them fun and not too painful on the wallet
3) They have a heft and weight to them which you get from all the old preslotta sculpts - reminds me of the first time I bought them as a boy and went to school with a chaos warrior in my pocket. Despite the many advantages of plastics, I've just never managed to escape the fact that to me, miniatures should be heavy! Take this chap...
(http://40.media.tumblr.com/5d8bde462cab1034684ff428a62ecae1/tumblr_n2vt3cysPZ1tw5z6to1_1280.jpg)
He's solid!
Back to those orcs, a few more from my blog...
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(http://40.media.tumblr.com/c09ba81840882ab204b80d306933ca0b/tumblr_n2qxokCdY91tw5z6to1_1280.jpg)
And the red fellow that was mentioned...
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