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Orc Drummer II
Here is an Orc Drummer I converted and painted at the beginning of 2005. Just a quick overrun of what I did, and a few details about the pictures that I have labeled. In general, he turned out better than I expected, as I was trying to blend a bit better on him, especially the skin. That turned out OK, but the pictures make the blending look smoother than it seems in normal lighting. The lights have also picked up on it being so shiny, due to it being painted for gaming instead of display, so its got more protection on it. Another thing I am going to have to fix is the sheer amount of dust on him. He’s been in the cabinet for a while, but the amount of dust that showed up is incredible. I’m going to have to get some compressed air onto my guys next time I take pictures of them. Image A) A big picture of the model. The helmet was converted by taking the horns off the head from the Orc Command Sprue. I took the two side spikes off an Orc spear (the one with the three prongs), and glued them in place. The body hasn’t had any real conversion except for some milliput on the back armour plate to smooth out some casting errors. The helmet, shoulder pad, and belt all have triangle dags on them, which are easier to see in other photos due to the lighting. The left arm is from the Orc unit box, and I took away the sword and put in a metal rod, and then attached the plastic skull from the Night Goblin/Zombie/Skaven standard sprue. The right arm is from a spear throwing arm with the spear removed, metal pole added, and head taken from the same standard sprue, with the hair filed off it. The bandages at the end of the sticks are thin pieces of milliput. The legs have had the little charm-thing removed from the belt. I also added some hobnails onto the bottom of the boots using an impression sculpting tutorial I found. Finally, the drum is half of the original Orc drum, with the top filed off then remade with milliput. There’s a really thick metal pin holding it to the base. Image B) Nice shot of the back. You can see the hobnails on the boots, as well as the mushrooms I made. The skull on the back plate is a bit like the one on the drum, and was just added so I wouldn’t have a big boring area. I didn’t turn out too well, but it works OK. Image C) A good shot of the front, where the wood of the drum is in focus. I tried to do some woodgrain on there, but I didn’t turn out like I hoped. What you see is closer to the tenth attempt I think. I think I know how to do better now when I do it on my next model. The dags on the right cheek can be seen a bit as well, but due to bright lights, and pale colours, it might be a bit of a challenge if you don’t know exactly where they are. The red straps are due to me having a red/black/green/brown colour scheme in my army. Not much black on this guy, but they aren’t more brown, which I am really getting sick of. Image D) Top of the drum. The skull is around a fair bit in my army, so I tried to freehand one on. I haven’t highlighted either skulls I painted on this guy due to figuring that they won’t be seen much, and also an Orc is barely going to spend time painting when he could be hitting something. Not too well shown, but there are patches of blood from the severed head on the top, as well as some dirt. The drum top was just drybrushed to give it a rough, old feel. Image E) The side of the drum. All can now see clearly my bad woodgrain J Image F) The skull. It came out fairly well, but there are about twenty washes on it to get it looking old and yellow like that. Image G) The head. The skin was painted along the lines of instructions for flayed skin I found in a white dwarf. I added the blood figuring that if it’s been stuck on their as soon as it was taken, the face would still have been bashed around a fair bit, both before and after being attached to it’s owner. Image H) A nice portrait of the Orc. I stained the metal with a few washes, and picked out all the studs in brass to show them up a bit. Other than that, not too much else to metion, except that his nose is really that pale, due to me highlighting it a bit too much, but I like it. Anyway, that’s my Orc Drummer. It took me 5 weeks to do, on and off, between work etc. I’m really pleased with the result. Please leave comments etc. NF/T
Posted: 29 Jan 2005
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