OrctoberFest, and a challenge to come

[carlosfaro]

Thank you Suso !!! You have really Venerable old minis for last century

I see that Prince August are maybe still valuable as big 1/72 orcs.. If would be sooo nice if you could find the moulds

Games Workshop -Warhammer orcs are definetely out of scale here, mainly because of cartoony design and Head scale.. The same as golbins.. Only snotlings can be used as golbins..
Games Workshop Lor of Rings moria and mordor orcs can be used in my taste...

Compared painted is maybe not so objective or impartial, but it helps really in my opinion to watch or check compatibility options better
Here my own comparisons, made yesterday at home with cellphone in 5 minutes:

PIC 1: BIG ORCS
2X GAMES WORKSHOP MORDOR ORCS (plastic)
1x Mithtil meta
1 x caesar set 2 (plastic)
1x caesar set 1 (plastic)
1X Boardgame piece "War of the ring"
1X Poor lone and brave Zvezda Human viking


pic 2: MEDIUM ORCS
1 x caesar set 2 (plastic)
1x caesar set 1 (plastic)
2X Games Workshop Moria Orcs(plastic)
1x Alliance orc set 1 (plastic)
1x Poor viking again



pic 3. medium + smaller types
1 x caesar set 1 (plastic)
1x Games Workshop Moria Orcs(plastic)
1x Alliance orc set 1 (plastic)
1x G. Workshop Snotling (metal)
1x Caesar old Goblin set (plastic)
1x Poor viking once more

[Susofrick]

Indeed poor viking! Great to see. I have some Prince August goblins, but nothing to compare them with and I've re-organized the cellar to have stuff I don't use anymore quite unreachable. So the goblins will have to stay were they are. Found an old picture though:



And the whole Black Army:

[carlosfaro]

Great old metal horde !!
But you must take care again,administrators can rellocate the post again to "other scales" thread...
Orcs never learn...

[PhilC]

It's nearly time for ORCTOBER 2019 !!

So after the mummy returned, I turned my brushes to a few more Orcs. I intend to paint as many Orcs and Goblins I can during the next month.
Here you are the first ones:







More pictures and comments here: https://philotepsfigures.blogspot.com/2019/09/last-days-of-september.html

So, who's in for Orctober 2019 ?

[MABO]

Very good I really love the Goblin Queen!

[Bill Slavin]

Great stuff, Phil.
How things change in a year. I was totally in in October 2018 but then my D&D group imploded and orcs, wizards and especially bards have left a sour taste in my mouth. But I will enjoy seeing what others have to offer!

[PhilC]

Thank you!
Bill, that's too bad for your D&D group (Mine disappeared 35 years ago, I'm afraid).

A small update this evening, with a test shot, a Wild Orc by Caesar:





What do you think of it ? Are these warpaints convincing ?

More pictures here (as usual): https://philotepsfigures.blogspot.com/2019/09/wild-orc-test-shot.html

[Wiking]

PhilC wrote:
Orctober is the month of the Orcs! I like to see on various blogs that some painters take time to paint to worst and less appreciated creatures in Fantasy - Orcs and other Goblins.


This is my contribution to this tradition, and I would like to share it here.

[PhilC]

Wiking, thank you very much for this excellent contribution !!!
I particularly like the first picture: how natural your sleeping Warg look like, amazing

[dykio]

i love this topic.... so i thought i join it. Although these pictures are very old…. but then so are the orcs…

the whole family :


their appartement :

[Peter]

Orctober 2020 I will join for sure, but I see if I can paint some this month!

These are some older ones I painted long time ago (2011 ):



More can be seen here!

[SamSagace]

Music for the first day of Orctober Feast !
Dwarves and Orcs (or Half-orcs as you want ..)
"SHAKHAI PORCNK"




old work of course : Sam's Minis World

[Peter]

Music for the first day of Orctober Feast !
Dwarves and Orcs (or Half-orcs as you want ..)
"SHAKHAI PORCNK"




old work of course : Sam's Minis World

I remember them from the famous Orc strike some years ago!

[PhilC]

Oh, some very nice entries we have here. It's good to see some defenders of the Orc cause

@Dykio: I could the pictures with my phone but not my laptop, strange. Nice orc citadel, a paper one ?

@Peter: great Orcs, I remember looking at them some years ago... but where are the mummies ??

@Samsagace: I think you meant MotOrcHead, instead of SHAKHAI PORCNK !!

[PhilC]

Today is Orctober the 1st, let me show you one picture of the growing horde so far:



This image will be my new blog's banner during the month. Hope you like it

https://philotepsfigures.blogspot.com/

[PhilC]

After almost 9 months without touching a brush, it seems that I need to speed up and paint every evening. Hum, "speed up"... you know what I mean.
Unlike Marvin who cannot paint less than 12 riders at a time, let me show my unit of 3 Orc riders on Warg.





More pictures and text here: https://philotepsfigures.blogspot.com/2019/10/wargs-in-vanguard.html

[carlosfaro]

Good contributions everybody..
Also the relatives from Isengard are coming to the party
https://sceavusall172.blogspot.com/















At least they bring something to eat!

[PhilC]

Ah some reinforcements... or are these Uruk-Hai only meat bringers ? In case of a differend, the stronger should win (I'm working on it...).

[Paul]

A couple of additions to the Orctoberfest with more to come
4 converted Orcs..3 "greenskins" using heads from the Caeser Orcs set 2 and the Bodies of Caeser´s Ratmen..tails removed.
The other conversion is from the Dark Alliance heavy warg riders set. Legs bent a bit to make a Standing pose.
The Hobgoblin is a 2003 Tom Meier Orc with added mace.

[PhilC]

Oh excellent! Nice that you explained your conversions, I didn't recognize the ratmen bodies.
And your hobgoblin is a nice addition to this team