More of the Black Orcs!

 Well yea....this guy is pretty plain.  What's wrong with me?  I do like the head.

 Ah...that's more like it.  Spikey blades, glyphs, a decapitated dapper Empire head.

 Yea this was what I was going for in bashing 'da Humies!

 And then there were more glyphs.....

 And I'm a sucker for skulls....

 Murder and mayhem do not make for boring orcs.....ever.

And much more to come......

Black Orcs!!!

With the demise of WHFB, my orc army bashing 'da humans is never going to see the light of day.

These are a batch of my Black Orcs.  I have ton of these guys modeled up and will be looking to send them to a good home at some point.

The idea was to make them a bit more dynamic.  In 2008....errr....yea it was that long ago, I won the Chicago GT Best Appearance with my Khorne Demon army, and Dave Taylor who at the time was working for GW asked me what army I was going to build next and I said orcs.  Well I think he gave me as the prize 20,000 black orcs.  Well maybe I exaggerate a little.

One of the cool things with Blorcs is the extra skull bits and that you can use Ogre bits like the fist piece on this one quite easily.

There is also room in the back for doing capes or furs like this one.

 Another thing I was playing with alot was adding blades and spikes coming off of the armor.

 The goal as I was building was as always in my army building is to attempt to not repeat a model.

 This one uses a weapon piece from the Empire Flagellants.

 I also started putting skull glyphs, and dag glyphs on the models.

 More fur with a chaos spike.

More to follow......

VC Bashin' Black Orc BSB banner

The VC Bashin' boys of course need a BSB with an obnoxiously huge banner. So a conversion was in order. I have a couple of corpse carts in pieces, and thought those zombies pulling it along were so cool. So why not put them on a banner.

Simple conversion, obnoxiously huge, bashing VC, what more could a Black Orc ask for?

The VC Bashin' Black Orc Unit....Modeling's Done

Well here is the completed unit with movement tray and without the banners. The tray like the others for the VC Bashers are a bit larger than normal to add extra eye candy and keep shaky people away from smashing them on the table.

I will say after shooting these pics, I thought I let down the theme a bit. So I went back and added more zombie heads and other body parts to them for trophies. The BSB and unit champ are in the middle of the front rank.

Note the turning of the dudes on the flanks to face the outside a little bit more. I think this helps with the eyecandy along the sides. It also helps in ranking up the unit a little bit more.

The back of the unit is boring, but the addition of the capes will allow the commissioner a place to freehand some more details if he so chooses.

And that is it for the Blorcs. Back to chaos...and I should soon be showing pics of my painted crusaders.

Also in a bit of cool news, I just read off of George RR Martin's site that Dance of Dragons is coming out in July. I can not wait to read that book...well actually I've been waiting years...but oh well. Looking forward to it. I'll be racing again Friday night unless it rains.

First Rank of VC Bashin' Black Orcs

The Vampire Count Bashin' Black Orcs continue...These are some from the front rank. Just about ready to put together the unit.

Below you see the back of the BSB. I have a specially converted banner for that guy. The cape you see is made out of ProCreate putty. I have been trying it a bit and just cannot get it to work real well for me. Also the neutral gray is very hard for me to see when working with it. It does smooth out well for the cape.

There is also a bit of plastic sprue welded to the miniature on the underside of the cape to help give it a hump between the shoulders.

More glyphs. The one on the right is the unit champion. The Head is from the one black orc banner. You can note that the jaw line was trimmed down considerably.

Back side of them. Since they have so much plate armor and mail, I decided to put some fur on them to break that up a bit.

Here are the musician and bannerman. Just subtle conversions.

Black Orc Unit 2nd Rank...

The VC Bashin' blorcs second rank. First up the two on the edge. There are so few heads for the blorcs that when you want to make each one somewhat unique, you have to come up with ways to do that. The one on the left I'm calling Batorc, the one on the right had a riveted strip down the center so I removed that.

The shear size of them does make it difficult to do things with them. So again I resorted to adding things to make them look more mean. I have a bunch of extra Goblin spears so they make good spikes.


I'm also going through my dag phase, again attempting to make each head different, not real noticeable in this pic but the one on the left has a horn swap on the head.

The ogre models also have things that work. I do kind of like the pose of the one on the right. Will do that again with my orcs.

That's it for now.

On the local front I've begun planning the Warhammer Ancients Battle Tournament, with help from the local crew and Hobby Store. Without them this could not get done. Tourney date we anticipate will be August 13, 2011, and will be 3 rounds.

Coming up, more chaos knighs, perhaps some spawn, work on my main character for the warriors of chaos, and a warshrine. I also have pics of WAB Knights that I need to edit, and we will finish up the VC bashin' black orc unit.

And later today I will be placing some Crusader USA Byzatine miniatures on Ebay that I won at Adepticon. I have too many projects and no room for these in the schedule.

Black Orcs in the making....

These are for the VC Bashin' orcs. Namely the back rank of 7 wide and 3 deep, so more of these guys to follow.

Mostly for the conversions I stuck with weapon swaps, glyphs, and fur. These models like the chaos knights in the previous are simply too big for their bases and so really crazy conversions are not really easy to pull off if you want them to rank up. Note I've turned the outside models of the rank towards there respective outside. This helps in ranking them up and also makes the exposed flank look a bit cooler in my opinion versus just everyone facing forwards.

Here is shot of the back of the group, showing off the capes and fur.


And the rest of the group.


The metal skulls are from Secret Weapons big bag of skulls, something like 100+ in a bag. I'm at the point now with the glyphs that I can practically do them in my sleep.

Next up back to more Chaos Knights.

A comparison of Boars...Black Orc Warboss Style

I recently posted the Blorc Warboss on the right. I thought this might illustrate why I rejected him for my army. The one on the left is on the new GW boar and was a commission build for the VC Bashin' Orcs that I have building.

The Blorcs are definitely not an issue with me. The Boars....err...boar and feral pig are.


The other thing that is killing the one on the right for me is the lack of dynamics. The feral pig is boring. The Boar on the left is dynamic and much more exciting.

I will say the one on the right is a much easier conversion.

So there you go, a Boaring comparison. Ewww that was bad.

Black Orc War Boss WIP

I've said this before, but once and awhile you build what you think is a cool model.

Then the more you look at it, the more you dislike it. When I started this model, I hadn't had the new boars on hand.


I just had this pig, well actually, three of these pigs. Not a very nice model.

I'm okay with the conversion, but not not with the boar....errrr...pig.

So this is the first model in my orc army that I rejected. I'll replace it with a model on the new boar. This old one is just not very good and won't cut it for my new army.

War Boss on the new plastic Boar

I've been wanting to work with these new boars since I saw them come out. They are very dynamic in pose, much better than the old ones and much better than the current Warboss Kit.

This boss was built on commission for the same person who commissioned the two shamen and two VC Orc boy units.


I decided to us the black orc torso with the armored legs of the normal boar riders.

That means covering the joins of the legs to the blorc body. Covered that with armor plates and mail.

I decided to add a bunch of glyphs as you see on the model's helmet, elbow, sword, and shoulder.

To continue the whole battling of the undead them, I put a broken tombstone on the base. This I will use again with the Wolf Riders.

I do like how the armor plating looks on the boar's head. I'm definitely planning to do some more of that.

Also when you do not use the boar rider arms, you will need to add some fur on the ridge of the boar's back.