Quite a good weekend of work on this project, really, though after preparing all of the miniatures, I didn't get a great deal of actual painting done!
Here you can see the forces assembled, and what a force it's going to be! Points-wise, this is actually only about two-thirds of the army. I plan on buying at least thirty Gore Riders, and let's not forget that in those little plastic bags you can see, I have a Krudger on Gore and A HUNDRED AND ELEVEN (!!!) Orclings.
The good news, I remembered, was that I have already painted about forty-five of the orc Axes, so that's a significant proportion of the foot-troops already done.
The four Ax which are still on sprues will be my army's Flaggers. As you saw in the last post, I have spent a massive amount of time painting the 'official' orc Flagger and though the miniature is magnificent, I really don't think I could do another four of them! Instead, I have managed to acquire some banner arms from the Flagger miniature, so some conversions ahead, I think.
The biggest pain before I could actually throw myself into the project properly was gravelling the bases. This took quite a long time and (as you can see) required a heavy-duty amount of PVA glue!
Once this was done on Friday night, I then left them until the morning when they were all dry so I could then undercoat them.
I am yet to assemble the Krudger or the Orclings because firstly, I don't have any 40mm bases yet for the little guys and secondly, I'm not sure the Orclings will make it into the army if I want to include a giant.
The Krudger on the other hand will be done completely separately from the main force as he will get a hopefully very lovely paint-job, time permitting.
And here they are, assembled and sprayed. In total, having done a proper head-count, I have one hundred orc Axes, twenty Moraxes, forty Greataxes, four Flaggers, one Krudger on Gore and enough Orclings to make at least ten bases.
Not a bad start really!
Finally, I managed to find the time to (very roughly) basecoat five of the Axes to run as a test. As you may see from the picture, the bases aren't quite dry yet - and still aren't dry as I'm writing this - but as soon as they are, these guys will get dipped...
Keep an eye out for more updates over the coming days to see how these guys turn out!
Your army is going to be awesome. You got a lot of really cool orc models. I get excited reading about your progress. Best wishes to you.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Believe me when I tell you that these guys have been in a box for about a year waiting for me to get round to painting them - So I'll be very excited about the progress too!
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