Painting - Challenge XIV - Morannon Orcs

  This  week is more of the same, though less of it. I completed 16 Morannon Orcs with sword and shield. Actually it's 12 of those, two captains, a shaman and a banner. The Star Wars Legion stuff is still working its way across the table, but hopefully it will be ready for next week. 

The rank and file are shades of brown but I did the Captains with red to help them stand out.

These are more of the GW plastics. They're fine for what they are. There's some nice variety in the sculpts and they look good at table top distance.

The four metal models have noticeably crisper detail than the plastics.

These guys will be the front rank of the orcish shield wall, with the spears from last week supporting them from behind.

This Shaman is, I think, my favorite of all of the GW LotR shamans. The details really scream out his nefarious magic and the sculpting is very clean and crisp.

This captain is pretty undistinguished. He really needed the red clothes to stand out from the rank and file.

I very cleverly managed to pretty much fail to capture that he is wearing a looted Gondor breastplate. You can just make it out in this picture.

This next captain is also not really a standout model. He also got the color treatment to make him more obvious.

The amor for these orcs is very distinctive and makes the Morranon's stand out from bog standard orc lads.

The banner is a pretty nice sculpt. I really like the way he's just sort of standing there watching the battle go on around him. I put it down to the fact that he probably can't seen anything out of his helmet.

The normal orcs off the sprue are varied enough to make an interesting group on the tabletop.

I, again, just grabbed multiples of each, two or three of a pose, and got them painted up. Most warbands for captains are 12 models so 12 spears and 12 swords.

This guy looks like Steve Bannon to me.

This mace is a nice change of weapons, though it does stand out almost as much as a spear.

The next bits of this army will be 12 archers, though those will be standard Mordor Orcs rather than Morranons, as well as a drummer and a troll.