A return to the Empire - update (4/10) - Abandoned Gatehouse

[white knight]

* Has vision of diorama with one orc with pants down, gripping a branch of a tree next to him for support (I have just the figure, with some converting), and another orc behind him... * 

Um... no... let's not go there perhaps.

[phreedh]

Um... no... let's not go there perhaps.

Please do! =D Nothing like a little sodomy...

Really liking your approach to orc skin btw... nice high lighting, and splendid sculpting on the pipe smokeR.

[white knight]

the main colours used for the orc skin are actually avocado and artichoke.

[Thantsants]

I always thought Orcs were fungus based creatures! 

Has vision of diorama with one orc with pants down, gripping a branch of a tree next to him for support (I have just the figure, with some converting), and another orc behind him...

Such can be the consequences of substance abuse if you're an orc!

What about something along these lines? 

[white knight]

Oh, that's what you meant...   

I wanted my orcs to be green, because I'm a traditionalist, but I also wanted that green to look like a skintone and not a green bodypaint and these shades seemed to do that for me.

[Thantsants]

Yeah its a nice green - afraid I'm a stickler for the more lurid end of the green spectrum for my little orcses! 

Perhaps the pic's not too clear but I was also suggesting that what might be next could be something along the lines of the two snotties (centre of the pic) suffering from a wee drink or two!

Less eye-watering than the conversion you mentioned earlier! 

[white knight]

Yes, I did figure out what you meant with the picture.

Less eye-watering than the conversion you mentioned earlier! 

But now that I've thought about it, there is a certain irresistable appeal to it...

[Thantsants]

I look forward?! to seeing it! 

Yes, I did figure out what you meant with the picture.

Sorry - thought my chavvy, lime green snotties had distracted you into talking about skintones! 

[white knight]

Although your snotlings made me imagine a unitfiller of an orc lying on his back and a goblin propped up to his side, both drunk and with an empty keg on it's side with the last few drops dripping onto the ground. I'll do that one first perhaps, it's less shocking.

[Thantsants]

Sounds great - I think you would also need a half-drowned snottie inside the barrel too!


Talking about shocking - what about that Scibor vignette with the amorous Dwarf and Goblin that surfaced on Frothers some time ago as another filler... 

[white knight]

Interesting idea about the snottie. Will think about it.

That scibor vignette is just sick though. 

[Thantsants]

 

Its not right is it!

[dodge]

Jolly nice painting there really like those, were you using the foundry triad forest green?

its come out really well

dodge

[white knight]

No I was using craft paints. Avocado for the basecoat and shadows and artichoke for the second coat, after that artichoke mixed with old GW rotten flesh for highlights (the old paints, that are now coat d'arms). On the first ones there was an intermediary step between the first coats which was a mix of avocado and current gw camo green, but I skipped it on the last ones (partly because the gw paint is drying up on me as they always do).

[white knight]

Inbetween adding new painted troops to the army, I've also taken to touching up the old ones, as my painting style and level has evolved greatly. I'm not going for a perfect match as that would require a complete repaint, but getting them close enough so they don't stand out on the table when put next to eachother. Latest one to get the treatment is my old helblaster:







This is what they looked like before (and the picture was flattering):