Mantic Orc Project

Dearest all
I have been scouring the web for weeks now looking for photos to inspire me in painting my new 2000pt Mantic Orc army with no luck.
Thus I thought I'd do a little progress report of my own efforts.
This was today's production

My humble workstation

The first test piece I painted in all of ten minutes utilizing Leather Brown Army Painter as a base.
I tried to maintain a very limited palette to reflect my view of how Orcs should look and of course I'm not big on the "in your face" GW colour of Orcs. Thus I painted mine in a much more toned down Russian Uniform colour. It was then washed in Vallejo Dip and finally given a nice very minimal ultra subtle highlight of Bleached Bone drybrush.

Next I began working on the command groups of all my various units. As gorgeous as the Mantic figures are, let's be honest here: the figures are modular to a degree but I want each unit to have its own character.
Cue my trusty knife, snippers, glue, lots of bits from Chaos, Orcs, Brettonia etc...

Just a little conversion here and there, a few head swaps, a few arms, weapons.....the usual suspects!

In total my force will soon consist of
Krudger on Gore (155 pts)

Flagger (30 pts)

Krudger (120 pts)

Krudger (120 pts)

Orc Shaman (120 pts)

Morax Regiment with Full Command (175 pts)

Morax Regiment with Full Command (175 pts)

Gore Riders Regiment with Full Command (170 pts)

Gore Riders Regiment with Full Command (170 pts)

Greatax Regiment with Full Command (135 pts)

Greatax Regiment with Full Command (135 pts)

Ax Horde with Full Command (135 pts)

Ax Horde with Full Command (135 pts)

Ax Regiment with Full Command (85 pts)

Orclings Troop (70 pts)

Orclings Troop (70 pts)


How long will it take me to get through this?
Well I guess we're just going to have to wait and see and, if you're interested in Mantic Orcs, please follow this blog over the next few weeks!

Thanks for reading, and may your dice roll high!
Steven