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.
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.
Looking good, Stu,
I agree, the shading on the weapons and standard are particularly effective.
Nice one, mate
Monty
Your orcs look great!
They doo look great, cant wait to be done with my space wolves so I can do some more dipping. Should both thumbnails lead to the same picture ?
Thanks all, yes taking up dipping has single-handedly revitalised my flagging mini painting. The chariot is coming along nicely and tonight I hope to have the wheels, main body and two boars ready for a dip.
I have also stripped back and re-primed a handful of Tyranids – including a Warrior for some test painting. Plus I’ve realised I have a whole bunch of partially base coated Cadians that would also be superbly suited for dipping, since their paint scheme is pretty much brown tones as shown in this old post.
Love the work. You’ve done a great job and it goes to show that great looking tabletop quality paint jobs don’t have to be so hard.
Sweet work.
Im really not looking forward to painting a crap ton of archers so I was curious if it worked on models with lighter colors. (ie mine are blue and gray) Or would I be better off getting a lighter color stain? Any input would be awesome, Thanks a lot.
by the way your orcs look outstanding!!
Unfortunately blue and grey could be problematic I think. The dip I’m using is a warm brown tone, which works well over light tones like Bleached Bone as well as reds and various shades of brown, and fortunately sort of works over green.
For flesh toned humans with blue tunics you’ve looking at two contrasting colours on different sides of the colour wheel, which might be hard to find a suitable dip for. Have you painted many archers? If not I’d suggest changing their tunics to a brown or yellow tone and then just using dip. Dipped yellow tunics would look particularly good imho.