Middle Earth SBG (Mordor Orcs - part 2)

You can never have too many Orcs, am I right? 

So, here are another batch to add to the Middle Earth baddies I'm working up. 

I'm nearer the end than the beginning on the rank and file now. I'm starting to get itchy to start other projects and it's taking some considerable self-control not to say "I'll come back to these in a while" and wander off.

More Middle Earth stuff:
More Isengard stuff:
More Angmar stuff:
More Barad Dur stuff:
More Mordor stuff:

Middle Earth SBG (Warg Riders - part 2)

More goodies for my baddies! A second batch of Orc War Riders to strengthen the forces of Evil readying to rampage across Middle Earth (at some point in the future, whenever I can get a game together).

The school summer holiday period is coming up. Not that I'm still at school, but I do have kids. School holidays are a great time for modelling productivity for me, because instead of running around, washing breakfast, ironing kids and making uniforms, I can get my paints out!

So I'm looking forward to a few weeks of serious productivity!

More Middle Earth stuff:
More Angmar stuff:
More Barad Dur stuff:

More Mordor stuff:

Middle Earth SBG (Warg Riders - part 1)

More bad guys from Middle Earth - this time it's some Warg Riders from Mordor, Angmar or Barad Dur as you see fit.

Since Orcs are basically interchangeable between many forces, I figure I can probably field various armies by adding the appropriate heroes and "specials" to an Orc-y core.

More Middle Earth stuff:
More Angmar stuff:
More Barad Dur stuff:

More Mordor stuff:

Middle Earth SBG (Mordor Orcs - part 1)

And the bad guys just keep on coming!

This time, a unit of Mordor Orcs joins the growing throng of Middle Earth evildoers.

Loads done, loads more still to do. Trying to stay focussed, even though I have a shiny new Necromunda box beckoning to me...

More Middle Earth stuff:
More Isengard stuff:
More Angmar stuff:
More Barad Dur stuff:
More Mordor stuff:

Middle Earth SBG (Morannon Orcs - part 1)

My plan is to heavily reinforce the forces of darkness in Middle Earth. Sauron and Saruman did a well-poxy job of trying to conquer it so I'm going to have a go.

I've always fancied being a dark lord.

Anyway, as well as collecting goblins for Moria, I'm also going to generally collect bad-guys so that I can field forces for Isengard, Mordor or (if the whim takes me) Angmar. Since most of these are based on Orcs I can collect a large Orcish core and basically use the same models with different heroes and a few fluff-models to represent any of them.

So, here is my first batch of Orcs (from the Pelennor fields set):

More Middle Earth stuff:
More Isengard stuff:
More Angmar stuff:
More Barad Dur stuff:
More Mordor stuff:

Middle Earth SBG (Nazgul)

Orcs to the left of me,

Nazgul to the right,

Here I am,

Stuck in Middle-Earth again...

Sorry - couldn't resist.

Anyway - I've picked up the "Battle of the Pelennor Fields" set. First thoughts: It's a terrific value-for-money deal. There's something like £180 of content (if bought separately) for £90 retail.

One of the items in the set is the Witch-King of Angmar on Winged Beast model.

This isn't him.

But on the same sprues, in case you didn't want to mount the Witch-King on the beast, you also get bits allowing you to build a regular(!) Nazgul. So, if you happen to have a spare horse lying around (which I did) and feel like doing a little hacking and bending, you get a free Black Rider.

More Middle Earth stuff:
More Angmar stuff:
More Barad Dur stuff:

More Mordor stuff:

Bloodbowl: Orc team "Orcrington Stabley"

As sanity-saving interlude between working on big modelling projects like my Siege models and preparing whole armies for "the next game" I thought I'd catch up on some smaller pieces of work I've been neglecting for some time. This also helped the household survive the inevitable "space crunch" which occurs at Christmas time as "all my crap" (a technical term my wife uses to refer to my wargames hobby) needs to make way for large trees and piles of presents.

I decided one of these mini-projects would be to pick up some work on some long-neglected Blood Bowl models, starting with an Orc Team. I'd tentatively named them "Green Dark Raiders" just for the sake of the pun on the English team "Queens Park Rangers" until my friend Mike came up with a much better pun. There's a lower-league team in the English soccer league called "Accrington Stanley". Hereinafter, this team shall be known as "Orcrington Stabley". Thanks, Mike!

I know Blood Bowl teams' armour is normally quite brightly coloured, but I deliberately avoided going that way with this team. There were two main reasons:

1. They're Orcs and don't want anything to do with all that pretty-shiny, humie-girly twaddle,
2. I enjoy painting Orc skin-tones and I wanted the skin to be the most eye-catching thing about this team.

I make no apologies for the 1990's Orc skin-tones by the way. I've always preferred the warm "Goblin Green" basetone to the colours that people tend to use on Orcs these days. Sorry if you think it's a bit "old-school" or dates the models a bit. I like it. So there.

The Whole Team:

Most of these models come from the 3rd  Edition of the game (circa 1994) which I picked up from Warhammer World in about 2006 where it was still on sale as a "Specialist Game".

Blitzers:

The model front-and-centre is a 1st Edition Blood Bowl metal model. The front-right model comes from a GW game called "Kerrunch" which was released as a sort of "rules-light, budget intro" to their games in 1991.

Linemen:

The model front-and-centre is a 1st Edition Blood Bowl metal model

Throwers:

Black Orc Blockers: