Big Boss needs his retainers: Da Big 'Uns

 

-Who needs to be smacked, boss.

Good ol' Harboth

 -Oi! Let's do an epic last standing pose!

The Boys (da orcish ones)

Sacks don't start themselves, ma bois! 

Never too late for Orctober

 

Spooky season meets Orctober and voila! a blog necromancy with some greenskin reinfocerments.

It has been the weirdest year and so it is the weirdest way of showing you all the last of the reinforcements: making a post without the rest of the army!

The next month I'll be publishing the different parts of the orc horde for those of you that didn't visited the Old World Army Challenge blog during this year's edition. Do not despair, I'll promise showing each unit with the same devotion I painted them!

However, I, as a slow painter, couldn't get in time some of the extras, and several spare miniatures of my connection didn't get into the deadline. So after a break in the hobby I restarted with these little fellas so my orc collection is complete... for now.

I tried to approach another green variation for these two orc boys in my quest for a rabble with lots of mixed skin colours. I started with the VMC German Red primer and worked towards a mix of VMC Flat green and English uniform/desert yellow. With a tip of VMC Light Green Blue for the lights, trying to get a less warmy green than my yellowish green of the Big Uns. The dark armour contrast with the slightly less muted green compared to other members of the boys but it is not so bright as the bigger orcs. Also I was going for a barbed dragon scales or possibly more reddish colour but at the end, the lizard/dragon skin shield was a more crocodile style.

Then the little goblin archers followed with a more greenish yellow tonne, starting from the VMC English Uniform over the German Red primer and mixing flat green and a bit of GW Elysian green.

I love the experiment with the turquoise clothes and it is simply playing with some VMC grey, flat green and the light green blue. The shadows are a bit of VMC Signal Blue glazing.

Finally, our beloved overlord forgives me! my payment for the OWAC. I had these two "almost finished" and were used in the challenge. Well, the goblin was used because I forgot were did I put one of my goblin spearmen and I had to include it in the photo... But some touched here and there were missing and I also wanted to paint the big un's shield with an inscription for the OWAC admin.

I think I had a pair of Harboth's archers elsewhere but I think that, until I complete my 20 orc projects (next year!) these are all the greenskin for a while.

Stay tunned for this blog revival and the post for each orc unit of the army!

INTERMISSI-ORC, the Old World Army Challenge entry

It is a bit late to announce this, but better now than never.