Beautiful Brutes

Thanks for tuning back in for another Friday on The Art of Caesura!

Last week I took you through my adventures with trying to magnetize these guys, but this week we'll look at them all painted up!

My image of orcs (and orruks) has always been one of a disparate mob; a ragtag band of like-minded brutal greenskins. I have always painted them accordingly. I like them to look like they cobbled their armour together from any old place, and I intentionally rarely paint two adjacent pieces of armour the same colour. I know this look isn't for everyone, and I have often read articles about creating this kind of ramshackle look while retaining a coherent colour-scheme. To that I kind of say poo poo!

I feel that their green skin (for which I also like to vary the tones) and bare metal weapons provide enough cohesive elements. My style, of painting the various sheets of metal (pig-metal) that make up their armour brass and silver and black and red and bone-coloured is more time consuming, but, to my eye, creates a more thrilling effect than the traditional technique of putting them all in predominantly yellow or black or red armour.

Many people have talked about what a joy these models are to paint and all I can do here is re-affirm that notion. They are a nice mix of large open slabs of metal (with enough texture to make their surfaces look a little interesting) and intricate details (faces, trinkets etc).

As you can see, I took loads of pictures for this article because I treated each Brute as an individual and so I wanted to show their details separately.

I have been working on some really old-school metal models recently (that will make their appearance here in a few weeks' time) and building those right after the Brutes really shows you how far model-making has come in the past 10-15 years! A LOOOOOooooooong way!

Thanks as always for tuning in to The Art of Caesura! Feel free as always to leave your questions and comments below and I'll be sure to get to them.

Watching: Logan - James Mangold
Playing: Silver Tower
Hiking: The Maumlaur Ridge - Annascaul

Next Week:

From brutal to cunnin'...

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