wargamers don't all agree on much or anything really but one thing that is absolutely true
is that everybody loves the orcs oh what's this an old pewter retro orc don't mind if i do
hey guys jay here welcome to eons of battle the orcs are the other really magical thing that games
workshop created probably the second most popular thing after space marines the point of warhammer
is to collect an army and make it your own you collect space marines but if you paint them red
they're going to have a totally different attitude to your friend brenda's blue space marines it all
comes down to how strong the lore is and i think lightning struck twice i think once with space
marines and once with the orcs the orcs also have a large number of cultures that make up their was
the vehicle-loving evil suns the affluent bad moons the violent goths the primitive snake bites
and the piratical free buddhas to name a few these cultures have wildly different feelings
depending on what colors you paint them and what bits you decide to glue on and i think
this is true not just for the lore but also for the look of the models old orc models look
dramatically different than the new models but i think they still kind of work together i have
this old retro model and a shelf full of modern 40k orcs and i bet when i'm through with this guy
no one would know the difference this model is an orc runth herder but it's not a normal run
thirder i bought this model for 15 from a seller from indiana on ebay but a few days after that
another identical listing popped up from new york selling the same model in same condition for 75
and the reason for the huge disparity in price is that this is actually a very weird figure
this model is in a blister that is unpunched which means it was never hanging in a store
and it's not labeled i don't know if this is a misprint and it was never sold for that reason
or what was going on and to add even more weirdness on the back it says made in the usa
which almost makes sense because there was a u.s branch of citadel for a little while but that
ended in like 1984 so long before this model came out and this model is marked 1999 this model asks
a lot of questions and answers none of them but i have a theory and its name is zodragwartsnaga
yes that weird scraggly-haired orc hq that gamesworship came out a while ago that was not
the first time that name appeared in the history of 40k this was the original zog rod warts snaga
model pretty cool but this was the original artwork for the character and they look nothing
alike but then take a look at this model and it is the spitting image of the artwork the pointy ears
the long face the rock and roll hair the fur line clothing that weird uh stick i think what happened
is that this model is the real zod grodd ward snaga but gameshop decided it wasn't fancy enough
and so they decided to make a more awesomer model and this model because it was fine it's perfectly
all right they decided to sell it as just a normal run third that is pure speculation on my part but
look at this guy compared to the artwork it has to be true i bet that with enough work and enough
paint i can get this model to look identical to a brand spanking new modern games workshop work
i took this bad boy and used some nippers to clip the slots into two pegs these will let me
stab them into the base and give a really strong connection which is important for big heavy models
like this now i want to add a little height to the base as this guy is a little small for an orc so
i glue down a piece of pine bark to the base with super glue and then mixed up some milliput a two
part epoxy and squished it all over the base now this orc sits a proper height for a boy his age
once the milliput was dry i gave it a coat of wood glue then sprinkled on some coarse sand and
fine grain sand orcs from this era came with arms and weapon sprues made of plastic so i picked an
appropriate arm and glued it in place with super glue these old orc guns came with handles attached
although you'll never need it so i clipped it off and then glued it to his fist with plastic glue
i've struggled in the past to actually get modern paint jobs on retro models there seems to be
something about these things that just forces a retro paint job on this vindicaar assassin with
cheeks of steel the paint just worked itself into a retro comic book style and on this jean
sealer cult magus something about that face just looks like it's staring at me from the cover of
a 1990s white dwarf i will get this old model to look new not 1999 new 2022 new i primed this
minion gray but jay you always prime black what's changed well it's all about lighting black prime
and or xenothon makes for a high contrast model that feels like it's in a dark environment like
these tau stealth suits sneaking through a dark jungle but on these black templar scouts who have
a white prime they're standing loud and proud in the bright sunlight and that's what i want for my
orcs to start off my painting i had to get my base coats out of the way so i put some black contrast
all over his clothing then i put white contrast over his sleeves puffy fur and his rockstar hair
then i put brown over his leather belt orchy satchel and grotsnatch and staff then i loaded up
my palette with some black tan and white i mixed up a gray paint and used this to highlight his
black clothing contrast paint does pretty good job on its own but a little extra highlighting
makes it look really good i mixed up a light brown and highlighted all of his brown bits this
was a normal base coat so i had to do a few more highlight coats than i did over the contrast paint
then i took some white paint and highlighted his sleeves and hair now he's based and highlighted
and the model was already looking like a straight up snack i broke out the metallic paints i really
like these vallejo airbrush metallics but they're way too watery for regular brushing so i mixed
a little gloss medium to make it thicker and stickier and i put this over all his weapons
it's now time to paint some orc flesh and the way i do arc flash is i get out all of my green
paints and then i randomly select two the reason i do this is because i want every single orc in
my army to have a very slightly different look to their flesh so that there's a little bit of
variety and make them all look a little bit more natural like living beings so i am going to pick
this one and this one
oh boy the gods gork and mork have selected for me neon green and the lime green classic rogue trader
retro bright orcs which is not what i want to do but you know what those are the rules and i'm
going to stick to them these colors don't exactly remind me of a grim dark modern orc warrior
i put these colors in the palette and mixed in the browns and blacks i had from the clothing
and this turned those bright saturated colors into the grim orc complexion i was after
i base coated the orc with my mid-tone washed it with my brownish greenish dark tone then i began
highlighting with a lighter shade of green the skin was a little too brown so i put a green wash
over everything then i reapplied my highlights then i mixed tan into my green to make lighter
and lighter desaturated green tones to pick out all the details with then i dotted the eyes with a
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to add little fleshy patches around the lips ears and hands to me this makes them look more alive
and natural like they're real organisms i'm almost done and it looks like a retro model i think i'm
about halfway between a retro model and a modern model but i'm gonna see if i can muscle it further
into the modern model territory with some washes and pigments i put a black wash over the weapons
and any spots of his clothing that i felt were looking a little too bright then i dried our
silver over the metal then came the pigments i prepared a slurry of orange and red then i put
this over his weapons i globbed it on pretty thick and then pulled it away from spots that
were getting too much coverage once the pigments were dry i dry brushed on some silver right on top
then on the base i coated it in a wet layer of tan and then used a big old brush to squish some
yellow pigments into all the nooks and crannies of the base and finished what's funny is that this
runthird one of the lowest ranking members of the orcs is probably the best painted model in my art
collection but you know adding one runtherd really isn't much in the grand scheme of an orc army
really i should paint up a bunch of gretchen the only problem is i don't have a bunch of gretchen
now i do i prepared once again to build some models i find usually it takes me just as much
time to build models as it does to paint them i am a slow builder and i always fix every mold
line and imperfection on the model after that it was time to paint just like the orcs i gave
these guys a light gray prime gretchen grotz and snotlings are models that gamesworkshop has
always had a lot of fun with the orcs aren't the grimist and darkest of armies and the gretchen are
even more lighthearted gretchen were some of the first plastic models for 40k entering the scene
as single piece lumps of plastic but there have been dozens of old pewter gretchen over the years
the first wave of rogue trader gretchen are awesome i think these guys would fit right in
with today's little gabbos let me introduce you to some of my favorite 40k goblins from the old days
introducing fat grot carrying a box next up a grot pooping in a helmet a banner waving grot carrying
a normal earth ak-47 a gretchen firing a few autogun rounds into the air like you just don't
care a grot who has captured the flag a cool guy grott who is selling squiggs a grot who's holding
the map and last but not least who could forget this the grotts of 40k are really fun although
pitiful in the game and barely worth setting up on the battlefield for how quickly they are removed
they are beloved by orc players and boom 80 more points added to the collection my orc army
is coming along nicely i have a good amount of boys far too many bikes and a lot more unpainted
and a smattering of everything else now let me introduce you to the real zod grodd wart snaga
this is the best painted orc in my collection i'm gonna have to really pull out the stops for my hqs
because this runt farmer can't be outshining my bosses i think i pulled off a modern look on a
retro model sure he's physically an old model but mixed in with the rest i think it's pretty hard
to pick him out of the rest of the rabble he has a wonderfully expressive face the retro gun actually
looks pretty decent and if you look close in his bag he has some snacks for later in the form of a
snotling and a squig them's good eaton he will lead these 10 little gabos proudly into battle
against the most powerful enemies in the galaxy or more likely guard some mech guns the back lines
but still a job and somebody's got to do it my work army is kind of my pride and joy every model
is kit bashed and unique and you know what a 20 year old runth herd is the perfect addition maybe
i need to pick up some 20 year old gretchen to go along to add to his herd i'm definitely going
to be keeping my eyes out for some more old orc models and if you know of any really cool
old orc models that i should take a look at please leave it in the comments below thanks for watching