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G'day all!

It's been many many years (like 6+) since I attempted to really put some effort in to a model. I typically just paint "table top standard" (what I can paint in 1-3 hours).

This is really the first attempt in years at painting a real quality looking model. A bit of conversion work. I don't like any of the Fantasy Orc Boss options, they all look too puny. So I used a 40k Ork, replaced the gun and chainaxe with axes from the plastic Orc Warboss kit, swung the right arm upwards and beefed up the muscles on it (otherwise the right arm looks strangely puny compared to the left).

What do you think?

Skin tone looks great, his tongue is one of the most realistic ones I've seen, the tunic looks fantastic. I'm jealous.

Thanks! The tongue wasn't too hard, but required a bit of paint mixing. I mixed up a pink from red and white (because oddly I don't have any pink paint, lol), then mixed in a healthy dollop of dryad bark to create a very dark fleshy tone. That was the basecoat. For subsequent layers I just added red, white and rakarth flesh (the rakarth flesh makes it lighter without making it excessively bright) until I arrived at that tone. You can also add a bit of light grey to the highlights rather than white if you want a flatter and more pale look (rather than bright pink).