Painting orcs: black orc standard bearer and drummer

Introduction

I got this guys a while ago, even forgot I had them; then recently I was doing some digging for orcs around my boxes and decided to get them done for DnD.

Prime

In black, as usual for dark color schemes.

Paint the metals

For some reason, I did the gunmetal basecoat on the silvery parts, then moved on to their skin. However, it illustrates well that once again, I'm moving away from silver metal armor for these miniatures. Details below.

Painting the skin

Follow the green orc skin painting tip.

Finish the metallic areas

Black wash, then silver drybrush, as usual.

Painting leather and bone

Quite a lot of those on these guys. Start with an overall brown basecoat.

Reddish brown for any wooden handles and the drumshell.

Bonewhite on any bone areas, including the skull on the end of the drumstick.

Leather brown on all the leather strips as well as the drumhead.

Sepia wash goes on the horns as well as a bit over the drumhead.

Agrax Earthshade wash goes on all the leather areas, the tip of the horns, as well as some over the drumhead.

Finish the horns with just a bit of black wash on the ends.

Back to the metallics

Black wash and silver highlights, as usual on the chainmail, metallic studs on the armor, as well as the axe head.

Painting the standard

First basecoat in brown all the skin, bone and wood. Basecoat in gunmetal all the silvery areas, arms and armor.

Add streaks of reddish brown on wood for color variation.

Paint and weather the dwarf medallions in bronze. Star with a bronze basecoat:

Green wash:

Nihilakh oxide:

Bronze drybrush:

Bathe the metallics in black wash, then add subtle highlights.

Basecoat the skulls in bonewhite:

Overall shade with sepia, then brown wash in the recesses, eyes, nose, teeth.

Paint the orc fetishes in red. Basecoat in blood red.

Crimson wash.

Light red highlights.

Paint the hair and beard, as well as the wolf's head, in grey. Basecoat in light grey, with a darker grey towards the severed neck.

Just light grey for the hair and beard.

Black wash on the hair and beard, and also at the very tip of the severed neck.

A white drybrush brings it all together.

Paint some gore on the dwarf and the wolf. Start with a dark red base.

Then apply a blackish red. I used citadel technical Blood for the Blood God, but a standard red/black mix would do.

Weather the black parts of the armor with grey.

Basing

Cover the bases in home made putty.

Then create the rocky base as per the relevant painting tip.

Finished!