Jevenkah and Teshub with more topless, er, roofless buildings

[Jevenkah]

My husband Teshub inspired me so much with his consistent turn-out of A Lady A Day during June that I picked up brush and orcs.



Here we have an always frightening axe-and-shield orc:




And one of our priests using music to calm the savage beasts:




There are a few more pics on the website, and a handful of Lund's let for me to paint!
Jevenkah

[Doomhippie]

Those look mean just like they mean business. 
I wish I could get my behind up and start painting again. My output is pathetic.

[Dr Mathias]

Nice work, I love those orcs. They were new releases right about when I got into painting. I enjoyed your Lady a Day thread and I think this will be fun to see

[Machinegunkelly]

Nice Orcs they will look good on your tabletop.

Did I understand you correctly that you are going to paint one orc a day for a month now?   

[Argonor]

Those look mean just like they mean business. 
I wish I could get my behind up and start painting again. My output is pathetic.

Maybe we should get together for a get-a-grip weekend with paints, minis and vintage music (my output has been at a standstill for more than a year) 

I always watch in disbelief when anyone manages to finish one mini a day, I need at least 2 evenings to finish one - but maybe it's because I rarely work at only one at a time.

These orcs look very good, and also very old-school in appearance (Grenadier or something else?).

[Mason]

Loving these old school orcs.
 

I have a soft spot for the old school look and look forward to painting a few myself soon.
 

[DeafNala]

The Green Guys look TERRIFIC. the brushwork is every bit up to the standards of Himself...maybe even better. AND is that a GREAT smile or what? Have FUN with The Project.

Tip of the Day: if you add a tiny dot of yellow toward the center of the red eyes, you'll get a nice glowing effect.

[jthomlin]

Nice work.

I love the consistency of painting and basing in your collection, it really enhances the overall effect.

Cheers!
Joe Thomlinson

[OLeary]

I like your approach to painting for the tabletop. You're not just relying on an overly heavy over a single base color to make the figures stand out.  There's smooth transitions and these look good photographed up close.

[Quendil]

Really love those old orcs and how you have painted them. I must dust some of mine off when I get a chance

[sukhe_bator]

Inspiring me to get back to my EM4 N Lund orc challenge... I ran out of steam about 2/3 of the way through all the conversion work...

[Teshub]

Inspiring me to get back to my EM4 N Lund orc challenge... I ran out of steam about 2/3 of the way through all the conversion work...

Please do get this project up again!  I would love to see that massive orc horde all together for some epic photos!

[Argonor]

@Teshub:

That horde in your signature also looks the part!

[Jevenkah]

Thanks all for the encouragement!

The orcs are awesomely old school, having been sculpted by Nick Lund and sold by Grenadier for the game Fantasy Warriors. http://www.mirliton.it/ currently produces most if not all of them. I have so much fun painting these guys, it's worth going through the piles to get to them.

As to the orc-a-day for a month proposal: I don't have enough Lunds laying about! I only have 7 or 8 left unpainted right now. That, and I don't paint nearly as fast as Teshub.

I like your approach to painting for the tabletop. You're not just relying on an overly heavy over a single base color to make the figures stand out.  There's smooth transitions and these look good photographed up close.

Thank you! I find it a bit anxiety-producing to put up my paintjobs at a large magnification. I really enjoy playing with multiple figures in larger scale dioramas. I get to move my camera around much more shooting those.

The Green Guys look TERRIFIC. the brushwork is every bit up to the standards of Himself...maybe even better. AND is that a GREAT smile or what? Have FUN with The Project.

Tip of the Day: if you add a tiny dot of yellow toward the center of the red eyes, you'll get a nice glowing effect.

Thanks for the tip, and the compliments  . Teshub was appreciative of all the feedback folks gave him during the ladies a day and he feels he improved quite a bit, especially in the eyes.

We're sure we'll lose track of who painted what soon, our styles are so similar.

Ironically, I have not painted any more orcs this week because I have been painting megalithic orc structures to re-launch an old friend in an old urog character!



And the temple floor heavily inspired by Andym's board for his 7th voyages game ( http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=53194.30 finished board on pg 3 ). Any lack of resemblance to his original temple floor is solely due to my lack of execution:


We couldn't resist playing with minis even before we glued the colonnade down:


Or after we secured it in place:


I'll be getting a how-to up on the website of our work on the temple soon.

Jevenkah

[moonshado]

That is a very impressive temple, very nicely painted. like the sacred fire in the God's hands.