The final unit for the orc demo army is a troop of Morax. As I'm not using full model count (10) I can get away with 8 orcs, which nicely fits into how I have been chunking the project.
Mantic do a Morax set, indeed I have one somewhere, but for this I felt I could manage with just the ordinary plastic orcs, as I have done previously when building my original orc army.
The orc Greatax sprue has some empty left arms, though these are mostly designed to hold a pole weapon across the body. The Ax sprue has no separate empty left arms, but one of the bodies has an attached left arm with an open hand. I used a few of these bodies, but also cut the left arm off to use on other bodies (the donor bodies will come in useful when I next build some Skulks). I have enough Mantic orcs that I don't lack for spare axes, though I did cut down a greataxe for a bit of variety on one of the models.
Once built the painting was just like the rest of the infantry. I suppose I should do a step by step guide on this sometime, leave a comment if you are interested.
The whole troop
The front rank
The rear rank
So that's all the orcs painted. They still need basing of course; I'll show off the whole army once I've done that.
Looking forward to seeing your Orcs all based up.
ReplyDeleteThanks, me too
DeleteI love the (unit champion?) 5th from the left in the top photo, with his natty hat.
ReplyDeleteThey look REALLY good MisterC.
Yes please - I'd like to see post detailing the painting step-by-step :)
-The Other One
Thanks.
DeleteI'll do another unit and write up each stage. A good excuse for more orcs.