WIP: GW LOTR Mordor Orcs - clothes painting

I have painted all the red and green clothes / areas of all the 24 Games Workshop LOTR Mordor Orcs a couple of days ago. I have also painted the dark browns on the the parts. All of the green skin, green clothes and red clothes have highlights, edge lining and washes already.

The figures are being painted with Vallejo Model Color as usual but the washes are Windsor & Newton oil paints. Loving the oil paints very much but I have yet to invest on more tubes / colors.

I like taking photos of my progress as I see my imperfections in the close up pics. Some of the highlight colors are a bit thick and the washes are a little bit too dark. These are my first miniatures and painting all 24 of them should be a great learning experience as I paint more complex and more detailed miniatures very soon.

These are plastic figures and I am looking forward to leveling up to their metal counterparts very soon! Anyways here are a few progress shots of my Mordor Orcs...

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WIP: GW LOTR Mordor Orcs - Green Orc Skin

These are my Games Workshop Lord of the Rings Mordor Orcs figures and I continued working on them last night.

I managed to paint 14 Mordor Orcs with green skin for a couple of hours before going to sleep yesterday. I plan to paint the other 4, orange skinned and the other 6, red skinned. As usual I painted these with Vallejo paints using Olive Green, Yellow Green and Yellow Ochre. I thinned the paints to skim milk consistency and applied around 3 coats for the base olive green coat.

I have yet to paint the eyes and have yet to apply some washes. Some washes would hopefully bring out more details on the skin parts soon.

I was pretty surprise that I somehow still have a steady hand and a sharp eye ( not getting any younger after all ). I painted these without any magnifying lenses and somehow it looks kinda okay for my first miniature attempt. 1/35 figures are suddenly so big and easy! lol

This is sooooo fun! Pretty nostalgic too as I used to paint and draw a lot back in college ( I took up Fine Arts ). Also really glad that my hands are still steady enough for this and eyes are working just fine. Hope to show you better updates soon, just too excited I had to post my green orc skin first attempt. :)

 

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WIP: GW LOTR Mordor Orcs - Basing Done

I managed to work on my first ever miniatures last night and earlier today and I am excited to show you my first " basing " attempt.

These are 24 miniatures of Lord of the Rings Mordor Orcs from Games Workshop. They are half the size of your usual Warhammer and WarMachine / Hordes miniatures but they pack enough details and are very cheap. The price and the smaller size of these minis makes for great practice pieces as I will find other minis huge once I work on other kits ( lol ).

First I added bits and pieces of styrene on all the bases and then I glued ( wood glue ) some aquarium sand on them. My eldest daughter was the one who sprinkled the sand on the glue. I then primed all of the figures flat black and let cure overnight.

Earlier today I overbrushed ( drybrushed ) some light grey over the black figures and I eventually started on painting the bases. All washes and paints are Vallejos. The base is almost done as I just need to paint the sides of the bases with black ( not brown ). Maybe I could also add some static grass once I get my hands on them.

For the mean time here are some photos of my progress so far... ( time to walk my dog, hehe )

Nest stop, painting the Orcs themselves!

GLUING AQUARIUM SAND 

 BLACK PRIMER

 

 OVER-BRUSHING

 

 

 BASE COLOR PAINTING

 

 

 

FINISHING

 

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