WIP Mordor army

Hexter · **Joined:** Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:33 pm **Posts:** 45

Hi,
Today i managed to get hold of a camera and so was able to take a few pics of the very start of my mordor army,.
These are my first 4 orcs although i do have another 4 that are nearly finished too:

Also here is a Moria Goblin i painted a few weeks ago:

I probably won't be able to update with pictures whilst Xmas which is when I'll be getting a new camera,unless i manage to borrow someone's camera.

Hope you like them,
Mike.

Nurin · **Posted:** Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:39 pm

I like them =) Nicely painted. They look quite "clean" though. =P

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:53 pm

Great paint jobs! I like how you did the metal and cloth. My only problem is that some of the cloth is a little too clean.....looks like they just swapped it from a Minas Tirith noble. Stippling some mud/blood on the cloth would make it look a lot better, in my opinion. Other than that, great job!

Gandlaf the Grey · **Posted:** Tue Oct 06, 2009 3:56 pm

Ironically I'm working on these very ones at present. I have some in my gallery.

They seem to be coming on nicely. Good pallette and they have that roguish Orc hue to them.

I would say the Shadow Grey hasn't seemed to work for me, it seems to have come out too blue. Perhaps if you used Chaos Black and Codex Grey to highlight ???

Keep up the good work

werner · **Posted:** Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:46 am

Very nice paintjob!!!

How did you do the skin on the first one?

samoht · **Posted:** Wed Oct 07, 2009 6:33 am

If you want to put dirt on the cloth then do this;

Drybrush bestial brown or snakebite leather on the rim of the cloth.
The rim is the bottom of it btw.
Then mix bleached bone with the brown and drybrush that on.
And then finally drybrush just bleached bone on. It will make it look dirty and dusty.

I really like those orcs. Keep it up. :yay:

bilbbo_bagains · **Posted:** Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:09 am

lightly go across it dry brushing snakebite leather.

Hexter · **Joined:** Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:33 pm **Posts:** 45

Thanks alot for all the replies,i appreciate it.

Quote:

They look quite "clean" though.

Yeah they do,but it seems of late that thats how I'm starting to paint alot of models that should look dirty.At any rate,i like them like this.

Quote:

I would say the Shadow Grey hasn't seemed to work for me,

I feel the same,so it's likely i won't be using shadow gery for highlighting black for a while.

Maybe going to pick up a Troll or a box of Haradrim or something today.

I'm not too keen on the Morannon Orc models from the pictures i've seen.does anyone have any painted pictures besides those painted by GW?

Cheers,
Mike.

werner · **Posted:** Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:28 pm

Hexter wrote:

Thanks alot for all the replies,i appreciate it.

Quote:

They look quite "clean" though.

Yeah they do,but it seems of late that thats how I'm starting to paint alot of models that should look dirty.At any rate,i like them like this.

Quote:

I would say the Shadow Grey hasn't seemed to work for me,

I feel the same,so it's likely i won't be using shadow gery for highlighting black for a while.

Maybe going to pick up a Troll or a box of Haradrim or something today.

I'm not too keen on the Morannon Orc models from the pictures i've seen.does anyone have any painted pictures besides those painted by GW?

Cheers,
Mike.

How did you do the skin on the first one?

Hexter · **Joined:** Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:33 pm **Posts:** 45

Quote:

How did you do the skin on the first one?

Sorry i missed that the first time round,apologiez.
Anyway,skin:

Tallarn flesh
Badab black wash
highlight with Tallarn flesh leaving the 'stained' skin colour showing.

I hope that helps,i actually was just trying it out for the first time so I'm not sure if it would look as well on a larger area of skin.

Cheers,
Mike.

werner · **Posted:** Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:58 pm

Hexter wrote:

Quote:

How did you do the skin on the first one?

Sorry i missed that the first time round,apologiez.
Anyway,skin:

Tallarn flesh
Badab black wash
highlight with Tallarn flesh leaving the 'stained' skin colour showing.

I hope that helps,i actually was just trying it out for the first time so I'm not sure if it would look as well on a larger area of skin.

Cheers,
Mike.

Thanks a lot, I'm certainly going to try it.

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:52 pm

Nice work Hexter, good highlights. :yay:

samoht · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:19 am

Hexter wrote:

Thanks alot for all the replies,i appreciate it.

Quote:

They look quite "clean" though.

Yeah they do,but it seems of late that thats how I'm starting to paint alot of models that should look dirty.At any rate,i like them like this.

Quote:

I would say the Shadow Grey hasn't seemed to work for me,

I feel the same,so it's likely i won't be using shadow gery for highlighting black for a while.

Maybe going to pick up a Troll or a box of Haradrim or something today.

I'm not too keen on the Morannon Orc models from the pictures i've seen.does anyone have any painted pictures besides those painted by GW?

Cheers,
Mike.

I would highly recommend getting Morranon orcs. I love them. The GW pictures of them don't do them justice. They are good fun. They have a sense of character to them, well in my opinion at least. I love their captains too.

You wanted to see some pics? Well here they are.
The cloth is a bit too red and isn't shaded too well, but I think I did an alright job on them.

EDIT: Sorry, the pics are a bit big so if an admin or something drops by, could you shrink them?

Gorgoroth · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:40 am

Nice painiting Hexter, they look great

Also, I agree with samoht, the Morannon Orcs are great models, they have great poses and I find then easier to paint than Mordor Orcs.

Also, great job on painting the Morannons samoht! you especially did a great job on the captain with the severed head on top of his :lol:

Gondolin · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:58 am

Nice army! I´d love to see some more pictures :d

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:20 pm

Gondolin wrote:

Quote:

Nice army! I´d love to see some more pictures :d

There was a justifiable reason to post the first ones, Hexter asked to see them, but I think posting more might kind of be making it Sahmot's finished army and not Hexter's WIP.

Or were you talking about Hexter's army-in-progress?

Either way, nice work Samoht, and Hexter, you should get some Morannon orcs! They're awesome to paint!

samoht · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:20 pm

Gorgoroth wrote:

Nice painiting Hexter, they look great

Also, I agree with samoht, the Morannon Orcs are great models, they have great poses and I find then easier to paint than Mordor Orcs.

Also, great job on painting the Morannons samoht! you especially did a great job on the captain with the severed head on top of his :lol:

Thanks

Hexter, were you planning on getting Morranon orcs?

Oh, and i'm not so sure about the blue, but the orcs skin that you've painted looks really nice!

Keep it up! :yay:

Hexter · **Joined:** Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:33 pm **Posts:** 45

samoht
Thanks alot for those pictures,they've just helped me make up my mind.
Morannon orcs it is!
Yours look amazing by the way,i especially like the captain with the dark blue skin.

Gorgoroth and Gondolin
Thanks for the kind words,hopefully I'll be able to get some more pics up soon.

Cheers,
Mike.

Anduril Blade of Kings · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:23 pm

Yes! Get Morannon orcs!

And look, we all three posted at the exact same time a minute ago.... :roll:

King Elessar the Uniter · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:54 pm

Anduril Flame wrote:

There was a justifiable reason to post the first ones, Hexter asked to see them, but I think posting more might kind of be making it Sahmot's finished army and not Hexter's WIP.

Where does it say Gondolin wanted them posted in this thread?
I don't think samoht would be stupid enough to clog Hexter's WIP up with his own finished miniatures.

@samoht - I will second Gondolin's opinion for more pics from you though, because those Morranon Orcs are fantastic! :yay:

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