Dipped Orc Chariot – Warhammer

 Warhammer Fantasy  6 Responses »
Apr 182009
 

Dipped Orc Boar Chariot I completed this Orc Boar Chariot over the week, painting and dipping the boars, riders and several parts of the chariot separately before putting it all together. This turned out to be something of a mistake because evidently you’re supposed to build the boars into the chariot before painting. Ah well, a sharp xacto blade and a little minor surgery on the chariot body got the boars into their harnesses with no obvious damage.

I have to say I’m pretty pleased with the end result. In particular the wood effect is superb considering it’s just a coat of dip over a Graveyard Earth base. I used to get much the same effect by messing around with several layers of drybrushing and an ink wash. The boars also turned out well I think, considering they’re painted with only three colours prior to dipping.

The next task is to find a reasonable way to dip Goblin Wolf Riders. The challenge is I’d like the wolves to be quite a dark tone. I’m considering mixing a small amount of darker dip and using a lightened base coat of Scorched Brown. Even though I bought the smallest tin of stain available, and I’ve dipped 20 Orcs and this chariot I still have plenty left in the tin, so dipping is not only easy it’s also economical. The wolf riders will get the same treatment as the Orcs and once I’ve painted ten wolf riders I will have completed a 500pt Border Patrol force.

 Posted by Stu at 5:57 pm

Dipped Orc Unit Completed – Warhammer

 Warhammer Fantasy  8 Responses »
Apr 102009
 

Dipped Orc Unit Detail I finished my unit of Orc Warriors for Border Patrol earlier this week, but didn’t get a chance to photograph them until today. Due to an inability to count I’ve actually finished 21 Orcs for this unit of 20. I also have another 4 ready to paint if I want to take the unit to 25 Orcs, which is the upper limit on unit size in Border Patrol. However a unit that size is a fairly large chunk of a 500pt Border Patrol force, and I’d still like some room to experiment with other Orc or Goblin units.

Dipped Orc Unit The standard bearer in the front was partially tin dipped and partially brush dipped as I discovered my cheap tin of stain wasn’t quite as deep as I thought it was. It turns out that there are no problems brush painting dip on, which is not much of a surprise but still good to know.

I’ve also prepped an Orcish Boar Chariot for painting this week and while the Boars, Orcs and chariot wheels are all small enough to dip separately, the chariot body isn’t so it’ll be brush dipped. Hopefully it won’t be too hard to paint either since there’s not much to an Orcish chariot, just wood, metal and a few cloth tones to paint on before dipping. Once that’s complete I have ten Goblin Wolf Riders to paint to complete the 500pt force.

Although I doubt I’ll stop at 500 pts since I have another 30 Arrer Boyz I could assemble into two units and a second Boar Chariot as well which would get me up around 800 points.

 Posted by Stu at 8:19 pm
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