COLLECTORS GUIDE

Here is the collectors guide to collecting, painting and fighting with an Orc and Goblin army.

MINITURES

There are a huge number of Orc and Goblin minitures avalible from Games Workshop as well as other miniture companies. I particullarly like Brian Nelson's Goblins. The plastic Night Goblins are brillient for large units of these dark critters (20 for £10).

PAINTING

Green, Green, Lots of Green

I'm not goiung to pretend I'm a good painter but most of my army is painted and it looks quite good (from a distance, if you squint a bit). One thing I have found with collecting an Orc army is that you go through a lot of green paint. My paint schemes vary between my diffrent tribe.

Orcs: My Orcs are have generally very light skin which is shaded deeply with a Dark Green Wash. They were black or dark mataillic armour with a single red shoulder pad (except my general who has two red shoulder pads). A lot of units have shilds which are painted half red and half black with varying symbols (taken from transfers mainly).

Savage Orcs: My Savage Orcs on the other hand have a far brighter yellowie-green skin decorated with large blue tattos which cover their bodies.

Night Goblins: My Night Goblin Tribe are getting new cloaks. After staring at black Night Goblins since I started this hobby 8 years ago I was board with them. I began to use them less and less (when they had been my favourite greenskins). So they needed a face lift. What would I do, then fliking through a back issue of white dwarf I saw some night goblins in blue cloaks. So I sat down straight away and began to paint, all it needed was a couple of coats of blue paint lightly brushed over their black clocks. The force isn't compleate yet (I want to buy some of the new Night Goblins) but when it is my Night Goblins will be ready to bash some more Dwarf butt.

STANDARDS

All my units have standard bearers with impresive standards (except for one unit of Night Goblins where I lost it). I find this very important as the standard tells me more about the unit than any model ever could. Hay look at that red standard with the arrow through the skull. Thats my Orc Arrer unit led by Varrag who once killed a lot of undead at a night battle 2 years ago.

Standards are easy to make all I do is trace a symbol on to a piece of paper (there are plenty in the Orc Armybook) I then paint around it (red for orcs, puple for night goblins, brown for savage orcs and yellow for goblins) and paint the back black (or brown for savage orcs). Orc and Goblin banners oftern have cheaked patterns of white and black along two parellel sides and orc banners are oftern contain a skull of some sorts. I then cut this out with a couple of tags at the top and a ragged edge at the bottom and attach it to the top of a stanadrd pole (with a piece of plastic or wire if needed).

SCENARY

My Orc Village has the following scenary; Boar Pen (just some fences and some boars), lots of huts (made from Pringles tubes), Orc Idols and Fort (from Idol of Gork), latrenes (da drops), shamans cave (polostrine and lots of wird coloured paints), a burial mound and the usual hills and woods.

I am currently working on an Orc Fort but just like the real thing bits keep droping off and I have currently given up till I have more time.

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