Painting a mounted orc warboss

Introduction

A Warhammer Fantasy orc model painted for DnD, intended as a bossfight.

Prime

In black.

Painting the skin

Follow the orc skin painting tip.

Basecoats

Brown on most of the areas (horns, fur, leather, wood). Metal on most of the rest (bracer, chainmail, chains, sword).

Black wash on the metallics. Light leather brown on the mane.

Black armor

Weather as per the painting tip. 

Paint the shield

Green wash (Athonian camoshade) on the wood.

Light green basecoat for the stretched face.

Camoshade.

Highlight with the original green base color.

Red cloth

Just a layer of dark red...

And a crimson wash.
I tried for red leather for the saddle by mixing red and brown, but all I got was this pinkish shade. I gave that also a crimson wash and let it rest.

Furs on the orc

Reddish brown patches.

Wash with Agrax Earthshade.

Bonewhite drybrush.

Horns

Overall sepia shade.

Agrax earthshade on the third towards the base.

Black wash at the base.

Stiple on some bonewhite where the washes have gone overboard.

Washes on leather

To give a light tone to the mane, I applied Reikland fleshshade. 

To differentiate the leather pants from the furs, that also got a thin coat of Reikland fleshshade.

Painting the boar

I looked up some pictures of wild boars, and it looks like they have light fur on their backs, going darker towards the feet, where it is almost black. So let's reproduce that.

I applied successive layers of Agrax earthshade , each leaving a portion from the top clear, just to darken the fur going downwards. The final coat was straight-on black wash.

The first two coats of Agrax:

One more at the bottom:

Black wash on the feet:

Black edge highlight on the hooves:

Finish the metallics

Highlight with a silver dybrush.

Apply rust effects as per the painting tip.

Paint the eyes

I decided on red eyes overall. This includes the stretched face:

With some black wash added to avoid that vivid look.

But the boar (as well the rider, though that's not visible due to the helmet) get simple red eyes.

Gore

There has to be a reason that cleaver is so rusty! Obviously, it's that it has seen a lot of blood, but not enough cleaning. Apply some citadel technical Blood for the Blood God on the edges of the cleaver, the end of the chain, as well as the ends of the tusks.

Basing

The boar is way to close to the base to allow for a proper basing (especially with drybrushing), so I decided to rip the miniature off the base. As with the other orcs, I glued on bits of sprue to raise it from the base, then filled up the base with home made putty.

Then applied rugged rocky terrain as per the painting tip.

Finished!

Rusty metal

Start by applying rust pigment. Make sure to add a good amount of medium as solvent.

After it had dried, drybrush with orange.

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!