My Generic Orcs (pg3: Mantic Trolls)

[Dr. Kevin Moon III esq.]

At the moment I find myself working away a lot and not being able to get to my usual club and not having the time to paint that I usually do.

Due to this I've been painting my way through a smallish box of Orcs I've had stashed away for a few years, with the aim to have a generic Orc army to play God of Battles, Kings of War and Warhammer to play in the odd weekend event I can get to.

I've tried to pay attention to the skin and shields and the rest has mostly been drybrushed, washed or just given one highlight. I've found by doing this I can knock out a small group (5 cav, 10 infantry e.t.c.) in a weekend so I feel I'm still accomplishing something each week.  

This weekend I finished off a unit of 5 Orc Boar Boys and thought I'd show off where I've got to so far.

[Dr. Kevin Moon III esq.]

These are my Orc Heavies. They will see service as Ironskins, Morax or Black Orcs

I have some more on order from Renegade in order to beef the unit up to a playable size.

[Dr. Kevin Moon III esq.]

A shaman (which I'm not overly pleased with - might highlight the snout of his boar cape a bit, any other ideas?) and the boss from the Orc Heavies (An outstanding model - One of my fav Kev Adams sculpts)

[killshot]

Looking good!

[Dr. Kevin Moon III esq.]

And a shot of the army so far.

I'm looking to replace the shields on Ruglud's Orcs and find some to go on the Old GW Big Uns - anyone have any Ideas?

[Spooktalker]

Nice painting! I especially like the Renegade ones and I think I can see they are big enough to be black orcs, which I couldn't tell for sure before. Am I right?

I would also say go with bigger pics generally, and especially that last group shot--it's tiny, can't see much.


Also, don't listen to any voice that says you need a certain number of figures per unit to start playing. What you have now is absolutely "playable." Even if you have 50 figs per unit it doesn't get to a "realistic" 1:1 figure ratio. Any figure ratio works for gaming. You could say 1 fig represents 100 or whatever you want. Make it your game and start having some fun!

[deathjester25]

That's a really nice orc army. Love the mix of older and newer minis.

As far as shields go I like the ones that come with the wargames factory orcs. They have some wooden styles plus some cresent shaped metal ones.

[Andrew May]

Nice, I thought Renegade had stopped selling the fantasy lines for some reason.
As Spook says, start playing if you like, even at 1:1 a small number of Orcses will fancy a rumble! 

[Vermis]

Nice work!

A shaman (which I'm not overly pleased with - might highlight the snout of his boar cape a bit, any other ideas?)

Maybe, but that's it. He's looking good.

I'm looking to replace the shields on Ruglud's Orcs and find some to go on the Old GW Big Uns - anyone have any Ideas?

Hasslefree shields? (Some Kev Adams ones, no less!) Or some dark age shields from historical sellers?

[eilif]

Nice work. Looking forward to seeing how this army grows!

[Bloodysword]

Nothing better then a well painted Orc army! great job.  I love those boar boys.

[DeafNala]

The mix of minis, all with SPLENDID paint jobs, work well together...love the Group Photo. GREAT WORK...keep us updated as things develop.

[Neldoreth]

Great stuff, looking forward to seeing more!

n.

[warburton]

Excellent, looking forward to seeing more. Very inspiring as I have plans to do a similar force soon

[Dr. Kevin Moon III esq.]

Thankyou for all the kind comments.

I managed to get an Orc shaman mounted on a boar done this week (current GW model) as well as 3 more old GW Orc Big 'Uns