Middle Earth SBG - Orcs

Time to revisit the Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game.  Those of you who have followed my blog for a time might have remembered that I painted up the Batle for Pelennor Fields box last year, which can be seen here and here.  Time to expand my forces a little.  I found a box of Mordor Orcs in my parent's attic.  They've been up there for a while, the price tag was still on the box and it's been a hell of a long time since they were £15

I'm painting these up as a part of Ontabletop's spring clean chllenge.  I've started a project over there  detailing exactly what I've done, feel free to check it out and upvote me if you like.

Now on to the pictures.

The skin tones in the movies are pretty varied.  I've tried to emulate this.   I've gone for four differnt skin schemes, that should look more varied once I've mixed them all together into one big mob.  The clothing is a mix of various browns and greys.  The unifying thing about them is the green, I wanted them to be a homage to the Druj from Empire.  I still need to finish the bases, I'm running low on grass tufts and want to do them all at the same time.

Battle For Pelennor Fields Evil side

Time for the evil side.   I hope you like orcs because there's a lot of them in this box.

Let's get right into the orcs.  Prepare for a lot of images.

I've tried to give them a broken uniform look.  I picked 3 colours for the cloth and varied what items of clothing I applied them to.  I've kept the same dark grungy armour throughout.  I also varied up the skin colours.

I've gone with the same armour with all the Mordor forces, just to tie them all together.

I've kept the Witch King and his fellbeast deliberately dark, to tie them into the movies. My biggest concern with this miniature is how the hell am I going to store and transport it.

Again I would like to increase my force up to 1000 points, which would be easier if I found all my old stuff from back in the day.

Pelenor Fields the Good side

This is my first blog in a month because I've been painting this bad boy, as well as planning wedding stuff... and playing Red Dead Redemption 2.  So it's safe to say I'm not dead.  I've got as far as painting the good side, I've used loads a grass tufts and I've primed the evil side... Imma have to buy more tufts.... meh.

Be warned there's a lot of images.

Riders of Rohan

Warriors of Rohan

King Theoden

Army of the Dead

The Army of Dead are really easy to paint.  First spray them with white primer.  Then hit them with a coat of two of GWs Nihlakh Oxide, the technical paint for painting verdigris.  It took me longer to base them than to paint them.

I'm going to use Rohan as my main Good side Middle Earth Strategy Game force.  I plan to eventually bring my Rohan force up to about 1000 points of pure cavalry.

Now to start painting the orcs.