Warhammer Fantasy Revisited

So had originally planned to put together an old Mantic Orc army box for KoW that I had kicking around for an Orctober project. At some point during the prep work I must have gotten carried away and pulled together and assembled every Orc I could get my hands on from bits boxes, old sprues etc. Plus a few goblins for good measure. So, plan is to now push through the following in a month:

• 4 blocks of 20 foot orcs
• 3 groups of 10 Arrer Boyz
• A unit of 10 Black orcs
• 10 Boar riders
• A few additional boar riders who will fill out an existing unit
• A group of 10 Goblin Wolf Riders
• Four orc chariots
• A shaman, standard bearer and hero type character on foot
• Plus some miscellaneous goblins (6 fanatics, a few shaman, a spear chukka and a hero on foot), if I have time, to add into my existing night Goblin force (which I also need to finish…)

Most of the above will end up being stood up as a new ‘Badlands’ themed orc force, with the rest getting added to my existing greenskin army. Rough maths is about 150 minis in a month (or 230ish if I include the in progress and optional goblins…). Plan is as follows:

Orcs and Goblin Wolf Riders:

• Primed in GW Zandri Dust
• Zenithal Preshade in Desert Yellow from the airbrush
• Second zenithal in white
• GW contrast orc green on the green areas (mainly as I’m looking for an excuse to try it).
• Leg cloth in a buff or canvas looking colour
• Wraps and teeth in Ivory
• All metals in oily steel
• Inks or washes on the leather areas
• Obvious straps and belts will get hit with leather brown.
• Eyes in red?
• Then an AP strong tone ink wash to finish

Miscellaneous goblins I’ll prime in white and work up from there as needed as I’m going for a brighter look.

Black Orcs got a plate mail primer. I’ll airbrush a black ink wash, edge highlight/chip with silver, add in leather brown and a coupe of passes of dark green highlighted up on the cloth and then give them a dark tone varnish.

At least that’s the current thinking. Had been considering incorporating a blue detail colour to tie them together but as I want to try a red soil base sand I’m worried the palette might look a bit busy with red, blue green and yellow…