The Taproom
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about orcs…. the very first orcs I painted, from Mithril range (since I never painted anything else)… were the nude morgoth orcs of turin series… it was 15years ago… according to me, orcs are not “goblins” but rather dark and shadowy evil creatures so I chose a gray… since then i have always painted them in gray but the main reason i don’t like painting orcs is because I try to “stick” to a color schema… for all my orcs and I have, in recent years, found a superb mixing of gray + black + green + human flesh… which makes , an odd colour which is “gray-green” mostly dark with a touch of “flesh”… a very very very hard mixing of color to recreate… (most of all if you use drybrush, washing etc..) and each times it dries up, you need to remix…. which can become exasperating very fast
I tend to like very dark brown (almost black), to grey washed with black, but green – never!!!!!!
I actually like the orcs from the films as well (Gothmog, well not so much) and personally felt that the light flesh tones that some of them had worked well (even if not as per JRR’s description). I’m not sure how well that would look on a Mithril figure though I guess you could see plenty of examples in GW stores.Re that newsletter, I’m sure I didn’t get it through in the form it appears on the Mithril site, I have had some stuff through, but maybe I missed a link, but at least it answers my question about how did some people know that there was another extension to the painting comp.
And congratulation Rita.de on joining such a fine body of men (and woman) in the GF.
On a another point there was mention of the new edition sizes of 150 figures. Thinking about this it is quite a worrying thought that if only 150 figures are released and the GF by now must exceed that (I think), I hope this will not lead to situations where some members cannot get a figure because it is no longer available.
I personally cannot see a reason for producing this number – if Mithril are worried that they may not sell all of them could they not cast up the usual number but not undercoat them so that if they don’t sell they go back into the melting pot? Or is that line of thought too simple?
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