Marienburg vs. the Undeadish (update: undead & spooky stuff)

[DeafNala]

The TRUE nature of the Orcs comes to the fore: i.e., SNAPPY DRESSERS. BEAUTIFULLY painted & base...VERY WELL DONE!

[grant]

The TRUE nature of the Orcs comes to the fore: i.e., SNAPPY DRESSERS. BEAUTIFULLY painted & base...VERY WELL DONE!

I enjoy your responses with their emphases and never ending positivity 

[Lowtardog]

I have a mere six Great/Mercenary Orcs. I really like the figures, but it's difficult to fit them into my collection/budget unless I find bargains. Below are the painted ones together. Four is the minimal I need to put a unit on the table under my current plan, so I'll finish the last two at a later date.

Absolute beauties

[Argonor]

Just thinking, would those orcs look good as ogres if painted with different skin colours?

Orcs always look good in other skintones, but I think they would be a bit scrawny (for todays standards) as ogres.

[Admiral Benbow]

What a beautiful thread and project! Very nice painting, creative ideas AND good pictures - what else would we need?
 

[ZeroTwentythree]

What a beautiful thread and project! Very nice painting, creative ideas AND good pictures - what else would we need?
 

Some battles? 

[ZeroTwentythree]

I swore I was going to finish the black knights before moving on to other things. But then a few Westfalia samples appeared in the mail and they naturally jumped to the front of the line! At least they're only a small distraction. I haven't decided what livery colors to use yet.

[LordOdo]

I'd go with something completely different to the yellow-blue Marienburg livery. So green-red or someting. Black-orange would be very cool, or how about purple-white?

[Major_Gilbear]

I'd go with something completely different to the yellow-blue Marienburg livery. So green-red or someting. Black-orange would be very cool, or how about purple-white?

Good suggestion, but please avoid green-red (it always seems to look like a tacky Christmas effort IMO...).

What about light grey or off-white and turquoise? Close enough to the blue/yellow to fit in as allies, but also different enough to stand out too.

[ZeroTwentythree]

I was thinking of avoiding green, as I hope to have militia & scouts in more earthy greens & browns. I was thinking that red would add some visual "punch" to balance their small stature. Probably red & white.

Combining a couple of suggestions above, purple and grey aound like they might be a good alternate to red or some sort of red + ? combinaton. I might run with that. Thanks for the ideas!

Going to look through some books for inspiration for a badge/symbol/charge/blazon or whatever it's called. I like the idea of an acorn, but not sute if that's a little cheesy or cliché.

[LordOdo]

Good suggestion, but please avoid green-red (it always seems to look like a tacky Christmas effort IMO...).

Especially halflings would look like Santas elves..

I like the idea of an acorn, but not sute if that's a little cheesy or cliché.

For Wood elves it would IMO, but halflings would be okay. I hope to get myself some of Westfalia's halflings soon, and I think I'd go with something less prestigious, like an old shoe/sock or something... feel free to copy that if you like

[Vermis]

Especially halflings would look like Santas elves..

The daft thing is that green and red are (or should I say were) the most common colours for the Moot! At least according to the Uniforms and Heraldry book. There the Moot's banner was a fighting cockerel. (Though still acknowleging this isn't strict Warhammer World )

Looking forward to see what you go with and how they turn out. I have a soft spot for halflings.

[Major_Gilbear]

The daft thing is that green and red are (or should I say were) the most common colours for the Moot! At least according to the Uniforms and Heraldry book. There the Moot's banner was a fighting cockerel. (Though still acknowleging this isn't strict Warhammer World )

I knew someone would mention that!

I still think it's an awful colour scheme though - so hard to get right unless you go for something broody, and that somehow seems counter to the other stuff ZeroTwentythree's painted. 

I was thinking of avoiding green, as I hope to have militia & scouts in more earthy greens & browns. I was thinking that red would add some visual "punch" to balance their small stature. Probably red & white.

Well, it depends on how much you want them to stand apart from your Marienbugers too I guess. If they are a totally separate force, you don't really need to choose anything that's sympathetic in terms of colour scheme!

If you want to stick with greens, you can always "pull" the colours around a bit to get something less garish and more earthy. For example, the green could be a bit darker, and the red could be changed to an earthy orange. Or the green can be lighter, and the red can be pushed into a ruddy brown/burgundy. Or you can choose any green (mix it up in the unit if you want) and add contrasting neutral colours to it like a warm off-white or a pale blue-grey.

I think adding bright red to a green colour scheme, whilst tempting and obvious, is hard to do without making the halflings look like Santa's elves. If you're after other spot colours that work, you could use a bright ochre yellow, a bright teal, or even a little magenta perhaps?

Going to look through some books for inspiration for a badge/symbol/charge/blazon or whatever it's called. I like the idea of an acorn, but not sute if that's a little cheesy or cliché.

Well, if they are meant to be militia, gatekeepers, wardens, etc, then you could go with unit symbols like a gate, a key, a bridge, etc. You could even combine a couple of elements like a key crossed over a spear or halberd, for example.

I guess if yo come up with a little bit of narrative for who they are, where they come from, and why they've formed a unit, things like colours and badges would be a bit easier to pin down.

[Vermis]

I knew someone would mention that!

I still think it's an awful colour scheme though - so hard to get right unless you go for something broody, and that somehow seems counter to the other stuff ZeroTwentythree's painted. 

Oh, agreed! I should've been more plain that it wasn't a suggestion. I'd started to paint my halflings with green and yellow unifiers, which I gather are more M-E hobbit colours, but that sounds a bit close to the greens and browns of 023's militia etc. I agree that a bit of playing around with hues and tones might be in order.

[ZeroTwentythree]

Bright green and yellow would be a good way to use green, but differentiate it from the more toned down & earthy colors of militia, scouts, etc. But I went with purple & grey for something different and striking. I still need to decide on a symbol/blazon/device/badge/whatever-you-call-it for the standard and possibly on other figures in the future.



My fondness for this range of figures just keeps growing. They look nice in photos online, but they are even better in person. The proportions, the crispness & detail, the poses, the concepts -- all awesome.

On the one hand, I'm looking forward to the Kickstarter, but on the other I've got to come up with some money to pledge towards it. I think I'm going be digging through my existing collection to sell off some stuff to fund a shedload of halflings.


While waiting for putty to cure on another project, I cleaned up some recently stripped Oldhammer figures, and took the plunge and assembled the Lord of the Feast. I ended up covering the awful arm joint with a band of putty.  That should help reinforce it too, since I didn't pin it.

My thought is that the Lord of the Feast will join the Life & Death elementals in their old rolls in Warhammer, as "daemons," or lesser avatars of various gods.