Tuesday 30 August 2022

The time of the Orc has come!

Well, the time to do five more of them anyway.


These are Oathmark Goblins (not Orcs, they're much bigger) which I have painted to add to my burgeoning forces of Mordor/Angmar for Lord of the Rings.

One of the problems of the old plastic LotR minis are the limited range of monopose sculpts. This is more of a problem for the Orcs than for the more uniform troops like Uruk-Hai or Easterlings.


Therefore I picked up a sprue of Oathmark Goblins to add a bit of variation, and as you can see, they scale pretty well.

The sprue has five models and a range of hand weapons, spears, shields and bows just like the Dwarf sprue. There is a head and large axe suitable to denoting a champion (which I haven't used) and unlike the Dwarves, there's a banner pole that I've decided to take advantage of.


The poses are a little bit samey, and so I wouldn't want to use too many of them alongside the more dynamically posed LotR Orcs, but a handful amongst the throng looks fine.

Having said that, these are also £25 for 30 and so do come out as a cheaper alternative to the official models.


I used the same simplistic approach to painting as when I painted the GW Orcs: base coats, drybrushing and washes over a black base, which works well enough and demostrates that these are more than detailed enough.

I'm not sure about the banner (I never am when I do freehand) and so it's not attached yet, and won't be until I'm certain I can't improve it. The saving grace is that Orc banners can cope with being rubbish as they're made by Orcs.


I feel like I'm finally building up a head of steam again and making some progress through the backlog.

It's a shame I've actually got to go back to work again on Thursday.

Acquired: 120
Painted: 127

4 comments:

  1. I quite like these mate. They blend in quite nicely with the originals.

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    1. I think there would be more of a divide if I included more. The most noticeable difference is the head size, but I'm planning to do some head swaps when I get more GW Orcs.

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