Soo the start finally came and so with glee I entered my local hobby shop only to find that all my planned purcahses bar a single orc boyz boxed set was out of the question. So I returned from market with just that (I plan to get the rest of my stuff soon, this weekend if possible), after cleaning and priming I began working on the flesh. I finished the painting bar the base on Wednesday.. or was it Tuesday... :huh: well the bases were completed today. So here's a brief view of what I've done;
Ok first thing to say is... my pic editing and taking suck, no matter what tutorial I look at they always turn out odd. But meh, I'll hopefully get it right at some point.
Now the painting side, when I started this project I began to look through the O&G stuff I have lying about (re: neatly stacked) on the greenskin race. From what I've gathered they're a more nomadic, filthy and feral race. Their clothing is made from whatever animal they find and skin to wear - be it beast or human.
So with this in mind I decided I wanted my orcs to look more mundane and basic in clothing; black IMO is not a common colour for leather in the FB world so they have very little black leather. Instead of the GW black they wear browns and greys, I tried to vary these to give the unit a 'non-uniformed uniformed look' if you get my meaning. We'll see how this works out. The only problem I really have is that I'm not too sure on my browns looking all that much like leather; though I suppose I have plenty of practice
The metals i decided to try a different way, and well it didn't turn out quite as I planned. I used black and brown inks to wash my base coat then I was going to lightly apply a very watered down silver and hopefully leave the inks showing through giving an appearence of well used but unclean weaponry/armour. Instead the metal seemed to go on smoothly and cover most of it up; so I had to give a wash of black ink to dull them (not really shown on the pics).
The drums are suppose to be human/dwarven flesh and the banner isn't done yet as I don't know what to do for it. Umm.. and well they get the blue flash across the face and nice bases.
Now pics...
https://img375.imageshack.us/img375/613/boyzwip6bb.jpg
This one is various pics of the first five orcs in different stages of painting.
https://img181.imageshack.us/img181/4364 ... ank7ex.jpg
The finished five, it appears many of the pics are smaller than I thought and loose alot of detail. Sorry about that.
In all I'm happy with the models, but they're not my best work and hopefully with practice I'll improve and they'll get better.
KU
