Narsty Orcses

[Thantsants]

First up - bit more work on the troll's skin tones - tried to darken and mute the green down a bit with brown and green/brown ink washes -



Thought I'd also post a few unfinished piccies to get me moving again - bad week for painting!


My oldest and favouritest mini, and possibly the first I bought -



and two orc minis that came with it -



... and Ruglud's Armoured Orcs - still minus Ruglud - wish I knew where he'd gone!





http://teasgettingcold.blogspot.com/2010/02/pull-thumb-out-bum.html

[Thantsants]

A little in-betweener...





http://teasgettingcold.blogspot.com/2010/02/snot-easy-being-green.html

[Thantsants]

A slightly larger addition to the warband...





http://teasgettingcold.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-oh-why-oh-wyvern.html

[Funghy-Fipps]

Wow!  At the risk of sounding cliched, they don't make them like that any more.  Can't wait to see the finished army.  As for Ruglud, he's probably wenching down at the local Orcish tavern...

[rob_the_robgoblin]

That is exactly what a Wyvern should look like. It's a shame that it is such a rare model!

Beautiful stuff, very well done. It looks great.

[dijit]

I've always loved that classic citadel wyvern rider - nicely painted too! The only model I think that beats in from that range was the elven dragon rider, the one that the new GW plastic high elf dragon was based on.

[Thantsants]

Yep that Dragon Rider is on the hit list too - missed out on one that went for about £30 a while back on ebay - haven't seen one since...

Oh well my Wood Elves will have to make do with the Eagle Rider I've cobbled together out of an old mounted hero and a newer eagle - the old LOTR eagle was too small!

[Thantsants]

Been a productive weekend! I am getting the painters equivalent of the thousand yard stare though... 

Some more likely lads -









http://teasgettingcold.blogspot.com/2010/02/not-so-noble-savage-orc-with.html

[white knight]

Love that archer. Wish I had one.

[rob_the_robgoblin]

wow, 3 minis in one post! That's really good going mate.

I love all three. This is going to be one awesome old school band of orcs! 

[Wirelizard]

Been a productive weekend! I am getting the painters equivalent of the thousand yard stare though... 

That'd be the "fourteen inch squint", then? (unless you hold the miniatures slightly further away than I tend to!) 

Neat old-school orceseses.

[Thantsants]

Cheers for the comments!

wow, 3 minis in one post! That's really good going mate.

That's nowt - now that I have secured a Ruglud mini I can stop procrastinating and paint an entire legion of his finest troops... muhahahahah 

- not looking forward to doing all those freehand shields though as I'm useless at it and will end up going blind, let alone acquiring a fourteen inch squint!

Any tips would be appreciated or does anyone know a good source of transfers?!

[thebinmann]

IRight that's it thay have inspired my 14-yyear-old-boy memories of great GW figures so have decided to raid my brother's collection of vintage GW orcs to have a go at painting them, though I think I'll start with the only GW plastics I ever bought (the combined fantasy box) if I can find it. All I have to do now is wait until April to sneak in and get them...

he hasn't got the Wyvern but he's got (or should I now say he had  ) the big bow sets...

Then I might try my Bugmans

PS WOW
PPS mine (um my brother's) will never look as god

[Thantsants]

I quite liked the old fantasy regiment orcs - still got one or two that have survived the years somehow. I've got enough of the nice little goblin archers for a small unit too - look forward to seeing yours painted up!

The Bugmans minis were also very cool, especially the peg-legged, eyepatched champion with the big axe.

he's got (or should I now say he had   ) the big bow sets...

Might be being thick here but did you mean the bolt throwers?

I'm slightly gutted that I converted mine into a makeshift artillery piece for my genestealer cult... 

(excuse the messy, drybrush-tastic paintjob!)



Still got most of the crew who will be painted up at some point to swell the ranks of the warband! 



Lets hope your brother isn't as attached to his orcses as I am to mine... 

[rob_the_robgoblin]

I love the rogue trader imperial guard. Lovely.

I have the set of bugmans you are talking about, that was 90s. Previous to that there was another set, same time as all of your orcs... Much older, much rarer.