The Hykrian wastes - Warmaster Faction focus: Orcs and Goblins

 

 The Orcs of the Hykrian wastes originate from the area to the North along the coast, their realms capital is Drog-Waz and the kingdom encapsulates the Drog Bog where many if not all the Orcs and Goblins are born from the muck as well as being the stomping ground for many of the trolls; the Giants Hohle is to the north of the Drog Bog and that's where the many giants are coaxed out of their caves and brought into the Horde.

 Playing the Orcs in the campaign came about by chance, having 3d printed all my armies myself I was always pouring over the websites like Forest Dragon, Cromarty Forge and Greenskin miniatures. I decided out of the blue to start supporting Forest Dragon on Patreon just as I was trying to decide on which army to play, I was originally going to go with a Chaos Army for my main Warmaster force and create a secondary army of Chaos Dwarves and maybe even Daemons! 
 Upon Signing up to Patreon I realised that Forest dragon had begun making Orcs, honestly I wasn't initially excited by the idea of playing as Greenskins, they've never really interested me all that much. They were very cheap to get as a Patreon supporter however, I next looked up a speed painting guide and decided on a scheme. Within a week I had printed 8 units of Orcs, 6 units of Goblins, a Giant and 2 Heroes; from my Chaos Dwarf army I already had Wolf riders and Black Orcs so I just snuck those in as well. I set myself the goal to try and paint at least 1000pts by the weekend so If we had a battle in the first year of the campaign I'd have a painted for to play, I got through the 1000pts in 3  days though there was no battle.

 Since that weekend I've continued to hammer out the painting and today I finished the total 2500pts in little under 2 weeks.

I've got to decide on another potential 600 points to add because I've invested in a temple using the extended Mighty Empires campaign rules, As Orcs and Goblins I can add D6x200 free points (really D6x100 as we're playing half points) per campaign year which are lost at the end of the year. I'll probably add Black Orcs and more Boar Boys.

Painting the Orcs

1. Base coat Army painter Fur brown using a spray can.
2. Paint Orc skin dark green
3. Paint Steel parts
4. Paint Red (or your choice of colour) on shields
5. Wash with Nuln Oil
6. Highlight skin with Moot Green or any other Bright green

Painting Boar Boys

1. Base coat Army painter Fur brown using a spray can.
2. Dry brush Boars with Orange Brown
3. Dry brush manes with light brown
4. paint tusks Ivory
5. Wash with Sepia wash
6. Paint orcs as above

Painting Trolls

1. Basecoat in Grey seer
2. Use contrast paint Talassar blue
3. Paint bellies Ivory
4. Paint Weapons brown and Grey