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Beautiful! Makes me want to paint some Savage Orcs...

- Cheers, Skarsnik.

black yellow warpaint is excellent....

and so is the rest of the unit

Lovely savage orcs! I really like the filler, nice and characterful! Also the idea of using yellow and black warpaint is unusual and cool!

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Really good painting dude! The combination of colours for your warpaints is fantastic, love it .

Can you tell us how you highlight so great? And the colours you use?

This post has been edited by mickkk666 on Nov 22 2011, 09:33 AM

Thanks! The skin is pretty simple. I start with gretchin green (the foundation color) usually done as 2 watered-down coats. Wash with Devlan mud. Highlight #1 with gretchin green, highlight #2 with gretchin green mixed 50/50 with rotting flesh. For goblins, I add a final highlight of pure rotting flesh.

For the yellow, I start with a basecoat of Tausept Ochre, usually in 1 or 2 coats, slightly thinned. Wash with Gryphonne Sierra. Highlight with Iyaden Darksun, iyaden darksun mixed with sunburst yellow 50/50, pure sunburst yellow, and sunburst yellow mixed 50/50 with skull white.

Yeah I felt the army needed a centerpiece so I was deciding between Azhag and an Arachnarok. Since my army's more orc-heavy, and the azhag wyvern is such a nice model, I decided to go with him. Now its only a matter of making him work in actual games...

The foundation paints really help. They let you paint nice bright colors (like yellow) over a black undercoat, which was difficult before they came around. Iyaden darksun and gretchin green are especially good for this. Unfortunatey there is also alot of painstaking highlighting involved to achieve contrast. Oh, and devlan mud is also the best thing ever.

Thanks, I guess I don't have any great secrets for highlighting, besides using very fine brushes...I switched to smaller brushes with more fine points a while back, and my highlights became alot more crisp.

Thanks again guys

Sounds cool, the plastic warboss kit has alot of great conversion possibilities, be sure to post pics when you're done!

I feel like I've seen that before somewhere..... Wouldn't want to still your idea! Looks great by the way

MAN THAT IS AWESOME!!!!

Those savages are bad !!!!

The unit filler is really mean as well

Stunning savage unit, the yellow/black scheme for the warpaint is simply amazing ^^

What about the bones? What colour/washes you use?

Keep the good job

I really like your army! it is of a great painting!

colors and steps to the skin?

For the bones, I start with a base coat of ~25% scorched brown/~75% bleached bone. Over black primer, this should be applied as two slightly watered down layers. Then wash with slightly thinned devlan mud. Highlight with bleached bone mixed with a small amount of scorched brown (maybe 90% bleached bone/10% scorched brown), and follow that with a highlight of bleached bone mixed with skull white. Add a final highlight of pure skull white.

Sure, start with a base coat of gretchin green (the foundation color). Wash it with devlan mud. Highlight with gretchin green, followed by gretchin green mixed 50/50 with rotting flesh. For goblins, I add a final highlight of pure rotting flesh.

Hope this helps.

I'm still quite new to Da-Warpath, so I haven't seen all the armies, but this is arguably the best I've seen from this forum to date.

Your Savage Orcs are win. I don't like the models, and I don't like the whole "Jungle Throw-Backs" theme GW has made for them. But you've made them look quality!

Always like seeing well painted minis, so thanks for sharing. Thanks also for your skin recipes, I'm a fan of the muted, more realistic shades you've created.

I'm hoping to get my first load of Greenies for Christmas, so will be using this as some inspiration.

Nice! Thanks for the reply

Thanks! Yeah I wasn't sure about the savage orc models at first either, but they really are great sculpts. The level of detail is incredible for plastics. Because they're mostly skin, they don't take too long to paint either, and the warpaint allows for alot of creativity.

Good luck with your horde and be sure to post some pictures!