'ere we go!

Lovely stuff in this thread! Skin tone and metals on those latest orcs are exceptional.
And how their bases perfectly match the terrain piece(?) or mat is weirdly satisfying. :grin:
 
Thank you. The metallics did come out nicely. Vallejo Mecha Color - Dark Steel (69.065) slightly thinned so the underpainting/drybrush slightly showed through. Wash of Nuln Oil and light drybrush of Silver for the edges. That one seems to flow better than the Game Color, but that might be better now they have been re-formulated. I've not yet had the need to buy any of the newer metallics. Then the rust was done with a mix of various browns/oranges along with some Model Mates rust paints.
 
they look great.
are you going to field them as a single unit? i hope you've got a contemporaneous command group, as that would be glorious.
 
Thank you.

Think they'd probably be one big unit. I need to have a rummage and see if I have any spare command miniatures. Otherwise it's back to eBay and keep an eye out for a few old ones I think. I forget quite what I had in my Orc and Goblin army when young, I think I have a good chunk of the orcs now back with me.
  • Ruglud's x2 (my originals - youthful painting, and a set I bought to strip, but have actually left in their original okay paint)
  • Harboth's x2 (my originals -finally painted, and a set I bought to strip, but have actually left in their original reasonable paint)
  • Some black orcs (older models)
  • These Fantasy Regiments orcs
  • Marauder Boar Boyz
  • 2x Man Manglers
  • 1x Wyvern (DRAG6)
  • A smattering of crew and odd standards and the like (hopefully enough to form a command for the big unit!)
Then a smattering of night goblins, the majority of which I think are still with my brother - but the bulk of those were the 4th edition mono-pose. I certainly also had quite few of the 4th edition mono-pose orc warriors and archers, but I'm less fussed about retrieving them.
 
Thanks for the recipe. I’ve been moving from GW paints to Vallejo for the past few years and so far haven’t regretted the choice.
Worst GW paints I’ve ever had the ”pleasure” to work with have been metals; their consistence seems to be all over the place, or maybe I’ve just had bad luck and got paint pots from the monday batch. Haven’t tried Vallejo’s Mecha range but might have to give them a go at some point.
 
Model Air Steel is also very nice to paint normally (as opposed to airbrushing) with.
 
So my finished Snotlings. Well truth be told I have two more that are painted that didn't end up on these bases and one I found that I'd missed and I do have a pump wagon, but it's in a blister still - and whilst I have a lot of lead sat around it feels almost wrong to crack it open until the rest is done :)

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And a close up so you can see whatever it is that I forgot to paint :). - this is normally the moment when I notice!
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I have realised that I've not rusted up the Snotling weapons, so maybe I should re-visit them prior to varnishing to do that, not quite sure. Probably would ground them more with my other recent efforts.
 
Thanks everyone, I'm really pleased with this lot - whilst I did get a bit of fiddly goblin fatigue towards the end I think I just about managed to have enough different colours on the clothes and whatnot to make them a bit more interesting.

Teeny eyes indeed, jury is still out on if I might do pupils on my goblinoids. I decided I wasn't going to tackle the fingernails, not sure even my stronger reading glasses would be up to that!

I'm quite pleased with my current skin tones (for the green ones at least). So the colours I use are Vallejo: Game Color 72.030 (Goblin Green), 72.032 (Escorpena Green), 72.033 (Livery Green) and Model Color 70.954 (Yellow Green). Alas Livery Green was one Vallejo discontinued when they redid Game Color (I have a few bottles left). Painting is the normal base then a shade and then I work up in glazes/layers using mixes of the lighter greens thinned down. The end result at least has a bit more yellow in than the photos to my eye, but I've never quite been able to capture it. That said the results from the Vallejo Xpress colour over underpaint was almost depressingly good. Still I quite enjoy the glazing up when it's batch painting and you can run down a line and then start over. Does take quite a few layers however.
 
Well you say that, but looking at a few older WDs the other day they look in the photos to take the highlights quite white. Although hard to tell of course given the camera and lighting make such a difference. I quite like a good solid green! I might pop a few in my bag when heading up to BOYL (assuming the gods don't intervene) and we can compare greens and photos of greens!

So speaking of green skin - here are the Goblins from the Fantasy Regiments box job lot I rescued and slap-chopped up and I don't think I posted except for the first few prototypes. Still very happy with them, but I prefer the smoother gradient I get from glazing the skin. Still both amazing and annoying that the slap-chop skin was quite as good as it was!

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And a close-up so you can play spot the mold line or whatever :)
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I do have a soft spot for the classic semi-monopose massed ranks.
 
Those Goblins are well and truly amazing, I think. They really do show the superior quality of the 'Fantasy Regiments' plastics in comparison to the grey 4th Ed monoposes. Turning archers into swordsmen is genius and they both fit the diagonal slots in the bases ever so well - the 4th Ed. spearmen are a pain to rank up and end up glaring into space at an odd angle.
 
Thanks.

Yes, totally agree with you both I could never understand why the 4th plastics seemed a step back from the plastics I started with I was used to things like RTB01 with all the options available then along comes all this monopole madness! I suppose from a marketing point of view it was the steps towards making the games more accessible and quicker to start playing, but to me as a fan of miniature modelling it seemed so strange.

Thinking again of orc flesh - I've not seen @Tex on here for a while (hopefully all is okay) with his absolutely jaw dropping orc skin. So for those who have not had to scrape their jaws off the floor for a while perhaps a link to his thread:

A slowly growing Waaagh!

I'm going to use this thread to showcase some of my paintjobs, past and present. Keep in mind that I don't have much time to paint nowadays and that I'm a terribly sloooow painter. As anticipated in my introduction, I'm an avid long time collector of greenskins, with a strong preference for kev...
forum.oldhammer.org forum.oldhammer.org
 
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