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!