Ewok's Spring Clean Challenges 2024

I want to make a ridiculously blingy and colourful orc army, so I set about building some of the grunts.

First up, some flying orcs called Riftwalkers, these are heavy infantry and I guess the expectation is to use the same infantry as the others.  I plan to use a lot of turbo dork metallics and colour shifts, basically I want these lot to look out of place in the world.

• So flying orcs it is then –  let’s do Ironman red and golds. I may shop around for different orc heads, I am really not convinced by the Mantic helmed ones

Not really satisfied with the results and the heads, further experimentation is required. I will try a wash on one orc, some edge highlighting on another.

Bearing in mind this is a process for army painting I may have to take a different approach, contrast over silver perhaps .

It’s a head scratcher, but I am enjoying the experiments.

Also I ordered some alternative heads for the flying orcs

Update 22/04 the heads arrived and are a bit too big. Back to the drawing board.

I have been dragging my heels picking up these orcs again. So far I am happy with the colours, need to decide on the weapons though, thinking purple hafts, gunmetal blue housings and a brass for the business end. For other armour parts black templar contrast over oily steel.

So having finally got a method and sequence established I finished off a couple of regiments worth.

Now to try and make an interesting base

Two regiments in the bag, I am calling this one done

The Future

I have a load more orcs to build and paint for the army. Realistically this is a 2025 project, they’re not the most enjoyable models to paint, and there’s a lot of steps to get these table ready. Arguably too many for army painting. But I am fairly pleased with the end result.