The Last of the Savage Big 'Uns

Say that quick enough and it could be a novel by James Fenimore Cooper...

The standard bearer and musician were repainted from my original unit. This saved a little time, as I didn't need to repeat eyes or bone necklaces. Although I had to completely re-do the skin (the earlier ones were a much harsher green) to make them fit the others, and remove their red/blue tattoos. Other repainted bits included yellow bracelets, blue banner poles and red toenails.

(Red toenails - what was I thinking? Were these Orcs getting ready for Saturday night clubbing? The other kind, that is.)

The plastic standard was taken from the Goblin sprue.
Orcs have no standards. This is a goblin joke.

Other amends I made since painting the first batch of Savage Big Uns: I removed the jawbone tattoos, as it was messing with the look of their faces too much. Each unit will have a different style of tattoo, so I'm glad to have painted my last skull-face.

Skulls are tricky - I don't know why Baron Samedi from Live and Let Die was so cheerful,
 when he had to apply that slap every night.

I also changed the colour of the severed heads that almost half the unit carry around their necks. The original pink was distracting from the colour scheme and, after a moment's thought about the fluff, I wondered where the Savage Orcs would get access to so much pale flesh in the south?

Toned the severed heads down to Graveyard Earth, with a Brown Ink wash, works much better. Clearly these Savage Orcs stocked up from a passing Araby caravan on their way to the Big Fight (WoffBoot VII) in the North.

Don't worry that the one on the right is blurry -
there's a whole other regiment of models just like him.

Indeed, the original heads on the banner top were pale green - I must have been trying to avoid pink, while going on the assumption that the humans had been up there a while.

So that's all the painting done. Once I get them flocked, magnetised and based, the unit is finished.