Orc Commandos painted WIP.

The Commandos, how should I pant them up, what should they look like, well here is one way I thought they should look. I have created a progress photo stream of my work on 4 of my Orc Commandos today.

Start with some GZG mercs, and a few paints. I used Green, Antique white, sable brown, Black, red, yellow, white, silver (metallic), Polyshades dip, Testers dull coat.

With the two colours below I mixed up most of the uniform, gun, armour, and boots.

Bellow are the Orcs ready for dip, and I have brushed it on.

Once the dip is dry, I sprayed with dull coat, and hit some detail work.

Only thing left is to finish up the bases. Then put them to work.

Space Orc army TOE.

I have been reviewing my Orc, and have decided on the TOE of the army. I have been going back and forth for years as to the make up of the army. I still love the old RT days of the GW Orcs and want to use the back story of those glory days for my Space Orc army.

Below are photos of my horde as it stands, with numbers next to the units. I will list out each unit in the photos. The photos are not that great, but you will get a feel for the over all size. Once I get the horde painted I will move to make more vehicles. I also want to add some more boys but that will be much later.

1. Mega Armored Space Orcs 4 units of 5 (15mm UK space pirates)
2. BA commandos 3 units of 8 (GZG mercs)
3. Hard boys (OOP MJ minuatures)
4. Bad Moon (OOP MJ)
5. Snake bite H2H nobs (OOP MJ)
6. Warboss and squad. (mix)
7. Freebooters 2 units of 10 (OOP MJ)
8. Snake bites 2 units of 10 (OOP MJ)
9. dreadnoughts 8 (epic gargants)
10. Bad Moon (OOP MJ)
11. Death skulls 2 units of 10 (OOP MJ)
12. Bad Moon (OOP MJ)
13. Evil Suns 2 units of 10 (OOP MJ)
14. Blood Ax Boys 4 units of 9 (15mm UK, and MJ hard boys)
15. Bikes 22 bikes in all (OOP MJ)
16. Bad ass beast kit bash (VOID lizard thing, old GW tank parts) 

Miniature Monday post......
I did not get too much done on the minis this weekend. I had to work Saturday, and was getting frustrated with the update tool we use Call BigFix (IBM tools suck). They updated it, and now it crashes every time I create a update project in it. So a wasted day of work, and no minis to show for it.

So no Play time Saturday, but Sunday I got some good Play time in. Before Church I was able to get mug shots of most of my minis for card creation.
Photo Album

And then ended up with a hole bunch of 1.25" mug shots.
Small Images Photo Album
These photos do not look so hot untill you view then in the slide show, as they will be at their normal size.

I created the mug shots in this size for two reasons, 1 is for the new Gruntz army builder, and 2 is for the power point template I use for my USE ME cards. The power point requires the photo be 1.25" square to fit in a box section.

I took the photos using my old Blackberry (image of model below), then ran them through Picasa to clean them up.

Next to make them small, and place a border around them I used Irfanview a free fast photo viewer, editor. Irfanview has a batch editor so I was able to resize all the photo in less than 1 minute, then add the border in the same time.

This ends the miniature part of my Sunday.

Then comes a new PC game. I remember getting the very first Tribes release back in 98, and could not put it down. With out a doubt my favorite PC game ever. In 2001 Tribes 2 was released, a bit darker but still great. In 2004 Tribes Vengeance was released, and it SUCKED!!!!!! What a waste of a game. There was a free game like Tribes, I think it was called legends or some thing like that. It was an ok game but did not have much of a following. Also two of the guys that were behind the first Tribes created a free web based game, again not many followers. Now last year Tribes Ascend came out and it was very good, till I had to buy items to stay alive, so I dropped it. Yesterday I got an email from Steam stating they are releasing a game of the year edition. I picked it up as it was on sale for $29.00. I should only have to level up to get addons now.

https://account.hirezstudios.com/tribesascend/

I know there are other great FPS but I can not run them on my computer as I need a new video card. I want BF3, but the will have to wait, and I am now very happy with Tribes.

I wish I could run Tribes 1 under win 8, but it will not run. T1 is a great lan party game, and is free to download. You can get Tribes from Tribesone.com and they do have a patch for Tribes to run on win7 so I may try that on my win 8 machine.

Weekends Work.

This weekend started with a Snow storm, that left use with 10" of wet heavy snow. So what better time to hit the paint desk. I first worked on my Squats, then quickly move to the forward outpost building. I am also trying to get used to using a real camera, and some of the shots are just blah.

All miniatures are by.

• Khurasan: Mid Tech troops.
• 15mm UK: Space Pirates (Squats)
• Orc: MJ miniatures
• Praetorian Guard: Old Glory 15s
• GZG: Trikes, and heads. 

First up here is the outpost. I am very happy with this, but I need to touch up the dry brushing  as it is a bit heavy in places. The Squats are blurry, sorry better photos of them  later in the post.

Next up are the GZG trikes. I painted these up last week, but finished the bases this weekend.

Here are my first two head swaps. I used GZG heads and they a tad big, but I think they worked great. Also a crewed weapon.

As dawn breaks over the outpost, with Khurasan troops.

The outpost maned by Praetorian Guard, on the look out for the green skins. 

Here the squats have found the green skins or the green skins found them. Better shot of the Squats.