Green OR Brown ,That is the Question ?

[B. Basiliscus]

Ruddy to red orcs for me, gentlemen.
those are the colors of RAGE and FURY.

[Damien]

@Quendil, where are those orcs from? They look like the orcs from that old 80's Lord of the Rings animation. I really like them a lot, great paint job.


Damien

[Quendil]

@Quendil, where are those orcs from? They look like the orcs from that old 80's Lord of the Rings animation. I really like them a lot, great paint job.


Damien

The orcs are from Heritage and are licenced from that 1980's film. I even have the painting guide which tells you the colours (Very cartoony).  You can still get the miniatures from here http://www.classicminiatures.net/, not a commercial site just a labour of love. You can contact him on hayha@q.com and he can send you a list of what he has 

See here for the wiki list http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=Lord_of_the_Rings_Figure_Sets

[Little Odo]

The majority of my orcs have been painted in a variety of flesh tones; my goblinoids get darker as they get bigger - white for the smallest svarts, through to 'Rotting Flesh' night goblins, to human coloured goblins and orcs and finally dark brown trolls). That said, my LotR orcs still need painting and I am stuck as to what colour to paint them - flesh coloured as per the above scheme, something resembling the movies, or something from the grey scale to match in with the Dragon Warriors' RPG I am currently playing?

[sundayhero]

Damien, I really like the green brown you're using. I see multiple uses for that paint !

thanks for sharing the ref.

[Damien]

Thanks for the info Quendil, I was already thinking of buying some minis off the 'classicminiatures' website after I painted a Heritage Gnome (a lot of fun to paint).

Hi sundayhero, glad to be of assistance.

[Lowtardog]

Grey for me. But I often paint the GW ones green and the LOTR GW ones all sort of colours.

What make are those, they are straight out of the LOTR Cartoon, absolutely spot on

my Brown gobbos, faces, hands etc hihglighted with a bit of flesh

[Vanvlak]

Any colour that you like. 
I tried a pale human flesh tone on goblins, and it works ok - as does black.
Incidentally, some very nice stuff here - Lowtardog's browns and Vermis' Moons; the colour on Damien's goblin would be my pick, I'd say.

[Doomhippie]

I usually paint them brownish or greyish - apart from Warhammer orcs and gobbos. Haven't painted any in a long time but I basically think that GW created their own look for that world and I am willing to go along with it. The fluff of calling them greenskins and all that makes it so GW typical that I'd find it a shame to ignore it.

Apart from that it's other colors. With an occasional green tinge mixed into a horde.

Btw. love those old Lord of the Rings orcs posted by Quendil. After all that movie got me involved with Tolkien in the first place...

[Lowtardog]

Btw. love those old Lord of the Rings orcs posted by Quendil. After all that movie got me involved with Tolien in the first place...

mE TOO

[Damien]

the colour on Damien's goblin would be my pick, I'd say.

Thanks Vanvlak!

I love those old LOTR orcs, I remember seeing that old movie in the 80's and was totally captivated. I never knew these minis even existed. When Quendil posted them I went straight to the Classic miniatures website (www.classicminiatures.net) to get a price list. I have to have these miniatures.

Cheers,
 Damien

[HerbyF]

My guys are mostly green!

[P_Clapham]

I stick with brown or grey as the base color-tones for my orcs.