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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: sundayhero on November 17, 2017, 06:35:17 PM
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Hi,
I've got a good amount of old GW (Marauder) orcs and gobelins, and a few trolls too. I'd like to base them for AoS, but keeping them as "oldhammer spirit" as possible, concerning painting job.
I don't want the "neon" bright green paint scheme GW orcs are usually painted with, so I'd like to ask for some advices for a more "classic fantasy" orc paint scheme.
THank you a lot !
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In my experience, anything goes really
(http://i.imgur.com/ROEEP4g.jpg)
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the one with the hook is interesting, I'm thinking of yellowish or brownish skin tone, actually. Any receipe ?
thanks
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Been an age since I painted these. I want to say hook guy is Vallejo model color orange brown shaded with devlan mud and highlighted with a touch of pale sand or ivory in more of the orange brown.
Here are some more examples
(http://i.imgur.com/nYpnd4p.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/8uLePrp.jpg)
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Nice. I do like the dark greyish/ivy green colour as well although I've yet to paint any of mine that colour.
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Been an age since I painted these. I want to say hook guy is Vallejo model color orange brown shaded with devlan mud and highlighted with a touch of pale sand or ivory in more of the orange brown.
Here are some more examples
(http://i.imgur.com/nYpnd4p.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/8uLePrp.jpg)
Thank you, I think I see how to do it with my own paints collection. I really like the skin tone on the 1st pic on first pic, and the 3rd and 4th figures on the second pic, that's what I 'm looking for.
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Nice stonework, by the way!
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From memory, in the original D&D Monster Manual goblins (orcs at that time had pig faces and so don't fit these miniatures) were reddish in colour.
Tolkien is vague, but it seems they were anything from sallow (yellow/pale brown), through to swart (dark, but just how dark) and of course he mentions black uruks - although whether black by nature or truely black in colour is uncertain.
GW made orcs green.
For my one and only orc couldn't decide between green and more Tolkienish brown. I ended up going half way using (I think) a British Army green with a brown wash.
(https://preview.ibb.co/nimHSm/20171119_081742.jpg) (https://ibb.co/hxHff6)
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(https://www.fysh.org/~katie/wargames/pictures/flintloque/IMG_20131012_155852.jpg)
I use Coat d'Arms 537 Faded Khaki as a base, Army Painter soft tone, then 225 Khaki and 225 Khaki + white.
They come out greeny-brown.
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(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/660/22998562050_fbd2eeef46_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/B3iDeU)
I did some BB gobbos with olive toned skin, I like the way they turned out.
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Orcs aren't green.
But they can't take the sunlight.
So one of the clever lads created an aloe based sun-sceen that gives them the greenish tint that has been exaggerated by artists ever since.
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(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Q57cYBjwhhE/WWw1BA5bDqI/AAAAAAAAFhA/PgY8mpA-NY8Iaz0phBWU-TwXc3v4xdOzQCLcBGAs/s1600/horcsf01.jpg)
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Orcs aren't green.
But they can't take the sunlight.
So one of the clever lads created an aloe based sun-sceen that gives them the greenish tint that has been exaggerated by artists ever since.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRZ-IxZ46ng
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great info and great pics, thanks !
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I had a rummage through my thread to find some alternative schemes and found a fair few (many of them rather dubious!):
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=33206;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=59390;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=59427;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=44258;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=41570;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=64923;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=58986;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=67395;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=67629;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=66112;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=49445;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=43482;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=43098;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=45366;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=50610;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=53782;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=53379;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=57548;image)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=50836;image)
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Prefer the darker grey-green-brown (with pinker highlights) myself.
(http://i.imgur.com/Y78B0BR.jpg)
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Nice work (I especially appreciate and recognize the work on the pants, after painting some stripes on a kingpin heroclix figure, a years ago lol), but I think I'll go for something like that :
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=44258;image)
or just a bit more greenish :
(http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=77384.0;attach=57548;image)
Thanks again for all these great pics and advises !
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If it helps, the first one was done by preshading a white undercoat with the Agra brown wash, drybrushing white, "tinting" with a thin wash of watered-down Elysian Green, washing with GW sepia, then highlighting with thinned Wych Elf Flesh.
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It helps a lot, and will save me some experiment time ! thank you !