Painting was as per my orc painting method, well I do use it for other things, but I do paint a lot of orcs.
Drummer and drum carrier
Two of the F'yar Guard
Standard and Leader, I've still got to paint a device on the standard.
The whole F'yar Guard on movement tray
and from above
The orcs are a bit large for their 15mm bases. I could have put them on 20mm bases, but I wanted to be able to swap them out for troops in other units to give them a tough looking champion.
All the bases and the movement tray are magnetised (tray from Warbases)
I've mentioned before about how big they are, around 20mm tall in some cases. Here's how they fit with the other ranges of orcs in my army.
L to R; Grenadier, Chariot, Blood Dawn, Essex, Kallistra (10mm)
Big, but given that I'm using them as an elite unit they are fine. The standard needs King F'yar's device on it, which should be a crowned orc head, judging from the artwork in Bloodbath at Orc's Drift. I might try a simplified version of this.
I really enjoyed painting these orcs. There's plenty of detail on them, but not so much that I struggled to think what to paint.
I also think that I've got better at painting orcs looking at the comparison shot above. I could go back and do some repainting, but then again, I've got plenty more to paint, so next up, an entire army.
Those Blood Dawn orcs are big boys, but you have done a great job with them.
ReplyDeleteThanks, they are. Its down to their vegetarian diet, they eat lots of elves.
DeleteThe group will make a good band for Fistful of Lead as well, if we ever do it in 15mm. I have some of the Blood Dawn orc archers in my army already.