Finished: Gorbag

 

Gorbag is one of the commanders at Cirith Ungol, one of Shagrat's underlings. He's the first hero for Mordor I painted in 20 years (as years ago I painted one of the Nazgul, but as with most of my MESBG miniatures, I intend to repaint that model). The only "problem" with painting him is that currently I couldn't use this model in a game. He's available only for the Cirith Ungol list alongside Shagrat and the only regular warriors that Shagrat can have in his warband are Mordor Uruk-hai and I have none. So, unless in this new edition it's legal to have a general without a warband, Gorbag will have to wait on a shelf for the reinforcement to arrive.

The Miniature

It is a very old metal sculpt with all it's drawbacks. The details are ok, but for some reason undercoating this model hadn't been as easy as it was for the plastic orcs. I had to work on the model with black paint and then it chipped a bit during painting, so I had to go back with it.

The pose is fairly open, which helps with slapchop. The only area that was actually difficult to reach was the armpit on one of the arms.

The Scheme

I tried to recreate the box art with what I had and I ended up with:

1. Slapchop underpainting
2. Militarum Green (Citadel) for the skin
3. Ratling Grime (Citadel) for the skin
4. Basilicanum Grey (Citadel) for the fur pants
5. Black Templar (Citadel) for the boots
6. Gore-Grunta Fur (Citadel) for the leather armour
7. Garaghak Sewer (Citadel) for all the straps and belts
8. Ushabti Bone (Citadel) for the teets
9. Heavy Metal (Army Painter) for the metal element
10. Voodoo Shade (Army Painter) for the metal elements
11. Base: Dark Earth, Agrax Earthshade, Gorthor Brown drybrush, Gamer's Grass 2mm Moss

Summary

Even though I generally don't like painting metal models, painting Mordor Orcs is fun in general. I do hope that I'll be able to field that model at one point, either in MESBG or some other fantasy game that accepts models of this scale!