Last weekend I finished the last five Goblin Wolf Riders to complete my Orc Border Patrol force. Each figure in this force has been painted the same way – primed white, base coated with flat colours and then dipped in an all-in-one varnish and stain product. I think they turned out quite nicely, and that’s certainly the fastest I’ve managed to painted this many figures. I started dipping them at the end of March, so they’ve taken me about six weeks in total. I found at most I could finish around five man sized figures every two evenings of painting. At that rate I could paint a 1500pt Warhammer Orc army in less than a year.
Once again I have to thank Dustan for his invaluable tips regarding dipping, without them I wouldn’t have bothered trying dip. Experiments with dip continue in both our houses – I’m looking to mix a good green dip for Warhammer Zombies and 40k Plague Marines while he’s trying for a blue dip for 40k Eldar.
Here’s a close up of the last five Goblin Wolf Riders. I wasn’t quite so heavy handed with the matt varnish this time and their paint jobs look a little crisper on the table. Since this is a Border Patrol force, both Wolf Rider units lack Standards and Musicians. There’s little point giving these speed bump units Standards of course, but their poor Leadership would certainly benefit from Musicians, which may get added in the future.
Next I’ll look at expanding this force with the existing figures I already have – another Boar Chariot, 30 Orc Arrer boys (I’ll probably paint 20), about another 10 Orc boys in parts and then it’s time to spend some money! It’s been years since I’ve been into a Games Workshop store, and I’ll probably end up buying additional Regiment boxes from Vagabond in Auckland city.
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End of May ? , surly not the end of May ,narr you was doin them in March , today is month of May . Wow they do look good …. big manna to you man .
Nuts! Stupid typos. Stupid months that start with M! Fixed that thanks.
The Orcs are really coming together nicely. They work very well with the dipping technique (much better than my guard seemed to). Keep up the good work, i look forward to seeing whats coming next :)
As mentioned in the forum, top notch. I am going to keep pushing on the Arrers mate. I have Skaven and until they got turned into a shooty army I would have killed for even bad archers (best we had was slings), i got Ogres and the reload time on their lead beltchers is painful. I dont know why Iam so attracted to armies without missle weapon troops but I almost regret it.
I suppose you could always do some weapon swaps if your going to have left overs.
And Hi MyKillM i havent een you post in ages.
Paul, I’ve got a bunch of IG Cadians that are -very- likely to see some dip since some of them are already painted in a Graveyard Earth/Scorched Brown scheme. So stay tuned!
Dustan. Yeah I’ve got enough Orcs to field around 30 archers. I’ll probably do 20 since that’s only about 10 evenings of painting and dipping.