Orctober 2024

[Eric]

Gosh is it really Orctober already? Where did the year disappear to? Well I don't have anything recent to kick off the thread, but I shall endeavour to finish up my Fantasy Miniatures goblins, which have languished in the "nearly there" pile for too long!

So without further ado, here is the before ...



And hopefully I'll have a finally finished picture by the end of the month!

So time to break out the goblin green and see what you can do to make us all green with envy...

 

[epicsatsuma]

Good luck!

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[ManicMan]

ugh.. And I've kinda got some goblins to paint but no heads... cause they shouldn't have goblin heads ¬_¬

 

[Brother Meredith]

Ooh, inspiration! Think I’ll get some paint on these lads.

The D&D boyz are gonna go old skool with proper hex bases too.

 

[Eric]

I used that black orc as my orc army general for years! Cool model, I think I might even still have him somewhere.

goblins to paint but no heads... cause they shouldn't have goblin heads

Now that is intriguing!

 

[Brother Meredith]

Fair bit more “texture” than painted recently, those Bob Olley sculpts are pretty distinctive!

 

[Geroak II]

I've got a partially painted dwarf wizard on my painting desk, sitting there and waiting to be finished. If I can get my painting mojo back I'll try and get at least one of these newly acquired gobbos painted. They are suitably straightforward sculpts and maybe that is just what I need after that dwarf.

 

[MichaelStockin]

Ooh I have some of the old plastic em4 bargain bucket orcs. Do they count?

 

[ManicMan]

why not ^_^

 

[MichaelStockin]

Dunno, are they old enough? Warhammery enough?

 

[Citizen Sade]

I’d say they’ll do, but it sounds like you’re trying to talk yourself into a little Oldhammery retail therapy. And why not?

 

[MichaelStockin]

Ha ha, I do have an ebay alert set up for some oldhammer stuff, maybe I should add orc shaman...

 

[ManicMan]

Sculpted by Mark Cobblestone, original released by Grenadier back in 1992. Just still in production.
I think the age is fine, Mark Cobblestone is a good sculpture though these ones are a bit... not his best ^_^ (but then, going for the style I guess) and Grenadier had a good history.. Em4 ended up with most of there plastics really..

 

[Citizen Sade]

I read somewhere that Copplestone was asked to sculpt them in Nick Lund’s style & that he wasn’t happy about it.

 

[ManicMan]

well, I think I can see the Nick Lund style. even with the plastic making them alot more simple

 

[KingOfTheLeadPile]

Ooh I have some of the old plastic em4 bargain bucket orcs. Do they count?View attachment 11181

They counted last year, for me

 

[MichaelStockin]

They counted last year, for me

That will do then.

 

[Orjetax]

I will pledge (to) the Orkling King, from the Skull and Crown Space Scrappers Kickstarter

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[ManicMan]

for he is an orkling king, and it is, it is a glorious thing to be an orkling king

 

[Brother Meredith]

Stripped and rebased me boyz.