what is the greatest terrain at Games Workshop has ever made I'll give you a moment to answer
did you say octares cause it is octarus is the greatest pack of terrain Games Workshop
has ever made four beautiful orky corners that when you Nest them together form one
humongous orky Mega construct it is glorious it is beautiful it is perfect and we've been
gaming on it for about two years and in that time we hear at eons of battle Incorporated thoughts
we can make perfect better and we did introducing the May terrain the very unofficial expansion
to octares we've got extra wall sections Corners doors a fully stocked bar it is quite
simply going to be the greatest orc terrain board ever constructed it is October in May
this is going to require aged metal rest effects out the Wazoo object Source lighting a little bit
of orky freehanding and faking a neon glow but in the end it'll expand this kill team board out
to full 40K proportions which is good because 10th edition is right around the corner and
10th edition is looking spicy we're gonna need a place to play but now it is time to get to work
because it works that'll be the last orc joke ah no it won't be all this terrain was printed
out of beautiful Serie attack resin it's a tough resin with enough Flex to handle terrain follow
the link in the description below to give Sarai attack resin a try I started out by
spray painting everything Brown and then giving it a xenathol of a warm tan color
and when you get a humongous set of terrain to paint like this you got it it just gives
you a spicy base to work up from and speaking of spicy metallics I made up my own metallic paint
using some dark Vallejo liquid metal a copper color and some brown I shoved all these colors
in my airbrush and added a lot of water I want this to darken the piece and give that metallic
Sparkle without covering up everything that was my first few layers it's all about layers
onions have layers ogres have layers and really good terrain has layers you can't paint them just
like normal Miniatures or else this one piece will take like a hundred hours but the more interesting
layers you can apply like transparent layers that you can sort of see through adds tons of visual
interest and depth to the pieces the next layer for these guys is going to be sponging typically
I sponge with a tiny piece of charcoal foam but for an entire terrain board I'm using a big old
piece of natural sponge I picked up some brown and began squishing this into the model everywhere
the arcs aren't known for their Good Housekeeping so this layer is the centuries of dirt that I've
dragged in under their Squig leather boots then I made up a black brown and did the sponging again
this looks like I'm going way too far but once all the steps are in place the black sponging will add
some nice texture now the base metals are all done but I don't just want to leave it all rusty steel
Orcs are artists at heart and they're particularly enjoy the colors red and yellow so I glazed red
over certain panels to make them more interesting glazing a brighter red over half doing this in a
glaze lets the undercoat showed through I did the same thing with the yellow I tried to put
myself in the mind of the Orcs who have a Keen Eye for interior decorating the base coats are done
and everything is looking nice and bright time to knock down that brightness with a wash not wanting
to go through all the wash paint I own I decided to make my own out of transparent inks a brown and
black some acrylic flow Aid and the secret sauce that helps the wash stick in the recesses matte
medium I poured it all together until the cup was halfway filled old and then I filled up the rest
of the way with water then I drowned the pieces in this wash using my biggest brush to work it into
the recesses the wash did with washes do which is really darken all these pieces which is actually
what I wanted to happen I want it nice and dark to provide a lot of contrast between the really
bright scuffs and scratch that I'm going to add and because I like bright Miniatures and bright
Miniatures look really good on dark terrain now for some light colors I sponged a bright silver
to show all the chips and scratches over the top of this dark base it really stands out and it
adds more interest to the otherwise flat sections the wash shade in my recesses now for some bright
Edge highlighting bright silver on a big old makeup brush wiping this over everything now
the recesses are dark and the edges are bright every surface is full of contrast the walls are
all finished painted and now it is time to move on to all the gubbins and I gotta think about
order of operation here because I was tempted to do all of the light bulbs but actually I think
the Orcs graffiti would have to go first my walls are all dark warm colors so to make the graffiti
really stand out I'm going with a blue which the Orcs believe is the luckiest color my penmanship
is horrible luckily so is the work so no matter how badly I do I think it'll turn out okay
I don't often paint with the airbrush but years of using it have taught me to line things up properly
I got some decently legible letters and it makes me think of actually doing some canvas painting
with the airbrush would be really good practice to try to make the letter stand out a little more
and be readable I painted a line of light blue in the middle of each letter all right the letters
are done but I still don't get to do the light bulbs because really the light would cast on the
rust so I should do the rust next I love a good orange pigment powder and to apply it to such
large pieces I took a radial brush and pressed the dry pigments all over the cracks and crevices then
I took a squirt bottle full of water set it to mist and squirted the panels enough to get
them dripping wet the Mist setting is important because it doesn't have enough power to knock the
pigments off it just saturates them and locks them into place and spraying enough to make it
drippy pulls the pigments from the flap surfaces into the recesses once dry it looks a little like
a wash a really really dry Dusty wash I used up most of my rust pigment but it is looking
snazzy and now I get to work on those lights and do a little object Source lighting Which object
Source lighting is one of the weirdest terms in the miniature painting hobby object Source
lighting it's like a phrase with most of the words deleted the demonstration of light being cast from
a source onto an object object Source lighting it doesn't really say what it is I prefer the term
glowy Parts just like a college kid's dorm room the Orcs also put up Christmas lights to make
their spaces feel a little more warm and inviting I sprayed some yellow over the bulbs letting the
airbrush over spray on each bulb so yellow is cast onto the walls and surrounding details yeah
yellow is the color of my cast light but an important thing about glowy bits is the source
of the glow has to be brighter than the light cast and the light cast has to be proportional
to how much more bright the source is so to finish off these light bulbs I painted a small blob of
white paint in the middle of each light bulb a small dot because there's not much light being
cast if the yellow overspray was huge I would have painted the entire light bulb solid white I also
want the open close sign to have an element of lighting to it I base coated the letters
with red and green with a paintbrush then over sprayed these colors a little with the airbrush
then I worked in layers painting on lines going over and over again with thinner lines of green
and red mixed with white until I had thin white lines which is the brightest part of the Neon
the orc Brewery is now open for business well actually I suppose it's not because
the bar isn't stocked time to fix that the orc bar might not be clean but it's got enough booze to
sedate a snake bite I want to make those bottles prominent I base coated the bottles with white
paint carefully picking out each Hooch bottle in preparation for glazing later then I took a
brown Army painter speed paint and painted this over 50 of the bottles then when that was dry I
painted the rest with bright green speed paints I don't know if the Orcs make these bottles or
if they're all stolen from the Imperial Guard maybe they have a stolen STC for making bottles
the orc bar is fully stocked with Squig scotch and Gretchen Guinness the only thing left to paint is
the stage that's right there's a Goff rocker stage this is the preeminent place for a golf rocker to
shred in style our artist licorice has actually already taken a crack at painting up this piece
I want to try something special with the lights I pulled off the trusses loaded down with lights
pointing at the stage and to properly replicate these lights casting beams onto the stage I need
a stencil I took my Army painter instructions because they're made of a thick paper and cut
a round hole airbrushing through the hole will give me sharper circles than I could get with
the airbrush alone and I held the stencil a little bit above the stage floor so the beam
of light was not perfectly crisp a little fuzzy on the edges I sprayed white paint to base coat
the beams of light then I sprayed some speed paint over top to add color if I only sprayed
speed paint the spot of light would be as dark as the stage the base coat was needed to get the
bright saturated colors and did the same thing for the lights airbrushing the bulbs white and then
glazing the same speed paint colors over them I have been wanting to do this all day finally
gluing the trusses into position and I need to paint that sign and I know just what I want to
do on it I want to get a nice chrome finish on that sign and I have just the thing a pen
this is a molotile chrome pen it's the crummiest Chrome I have ever come across so I drew Chrome
onto the letters and it decided the Orcs would have used the rest of their Chrome on the door
sign the booze hole cover is five teeth now to populate the stage with all the gubbins the floor
speakers the mic stand and the guitars this stage is complete the orc Brewery is ready to open what
made the octares train so great is how it was all meant to fit together typically terrain is
just small medium and large elements that all just sort of get spread out but the orc Terrace terrain
is perfect you can make big buildings you can have walls connected by catwalks it was all so
precise and evident how you were meant to play with it it was the best Games Workshop terrain
that they ever made and you can't get it anymore Games Workshop discontinued it the best terrain
of all time gone forever but we're bringing it back behold orcvana with all new wall sections
that add way more Dynamic ways to assemble the terrain from one bunker into a proper Fortress
a citadel of gork and Mork a salacious Saloon where the Orcs can really cut loose Footloose
kick off their snaga boy shoes where the Goths can rock and the boys can get bombed a place
for mechs to Tinker and the grots to hide this train will be available to our patreon supporters
at the EOB terrain tier and above for the month of May with the stls hosted by Thomas games and
things or you can find it on our tribes over at my mini Factory it's beautiful it's perfect it's
so positively orky I can really let my orc brain out when I'm assembling this into the most crazy
and RAM shackle shapes the Orcs hold a special place in my heart they're the comic relief of
Warhammer 40K and I like to think of myself as the comic relief of my life a world full
of nothing but Grim Darkness only wore One race in the Galaxy wouldn't have it any other way okay