Painting Black Uruks

These Black Uruks have been painted using a Dark Elf paint triad from Reaper miniatures. The second, midtone colour is perfect for a black wash.

These were painted quite dark but we're also given a Dark tone wash from Army Painter dip.

These large Orcs are a mixture of Ral Partha and Reaper miniatures, they are obviously sculpted by the same artist, Bob Olly, which is pretty handy.

I have been collecting these big powerful Orcs for sometime. It's nice to finally break them out and make up units of them.

This guy is a new thing for me, a digital 3D sculpt Orc from eBay, they are quite fragile but very nice sculpts. I love the helmets! The chainmail is particularly good.

After the Orc is painted with the Dark Elf paint, a really nice tip is to dry brush them with a light, sandy brown. This really helps to pick out the details and give a very nice natural skin look. The Dark dip also helps to tie everything together. I dry brush the entire model like this, it also helps weather the dark clothes and armour 

This guy above is carrying a crude shield, created using blobs of gel superglue.

Another printed Orc from eBay, I'm am quite taken with these.

A Rings of Power Orc.