Flintloque Orc Dragoons

These are a couple of my Flintloque Orc Dragoons that I painted back in the 1990s.

It was my first real success at painting red. I found that red wouldn’t cover the black undecoat, what I did differently this time was to use a dark brown basecoat before painting the red. After this I would often use a different coloured basecoat to get good coverage.

I have to admit I now quite like using the (defunct) Citadel Foundation paints. Interested to try out the new Base paints that Games Workshop recently released to see how they work when painting.

Attacking the Dwarf City




Probably my favourite display game at GamesDay 2008 was the Dwarf City that was under attack by a sea borne Orc and Goblin army. The scenery was beautifully constructed, some amazing Venetian inspired buildings and bridges.

In previous blog posts (here, here, here and here) I posted some photographs of the Dwarf buildings. In this posting there are some photographs of the Orc sea vessels that were attacking the city.

Attacking the Dwarf City

The Orc boats were wooden attack boats that looked like the Orcs had just thrown them together.

Attacking the Dwarf City

There were many vessels that had landing craft abilities.

Attacking the Dwarf City

In the background of this photo, you can see a Dwarf Monitor steaming out to defend the city from attack. The Orc boat in the foreground has siege engines lashed to the deck.

Attacking the Dwarf City

Orc Objective

One of the nice things about going to GameDay is the wonderful scenery that can be found, not only on the demonstration games, but also in the display cabinets. These pieces of scenery are often used in White Dwarf battle reports, but at GamesDay you can give them a real close look.

This Orc scenic objective is a prime example from GamesDay 2006, you can see the effort and detail that has gone into what is a relatively simple piece of scenery, which in the end would have been a small part of a photograph of the battle report.

Objective

See more photographs of Warhammer Fantasy scenery.