This article will show you how to paint up Orc Blitzers for Blood Bowl and is the third installment of the Blood Bowl Orcs painting articles. These particular Black Orcs are from Chris Pavey's Blood Bowl team The Drunken Knights (of Dubbo). You can see the whole team painted up in another article. I suggest if you haven't done so already, to read the article on painting Orc Linemen first.

Preparation and Undercoat
Clean any flash off the miniatures and give them a black undercoat (spray paint is best I find as it saves a lot of time, which means you can spend longer getting all that shading and highlighting right :). I prefer to undercoat the figures before glueing them onto their bases. It gives a more even coat onto the miniatures and avoids leaving bare metal at strange angles.

Stage 1
Get a even mix of Chainmail and Boltgun metal and drybrush the miniatures all over. A good way to see if you have the right amount of paint on the brush is to brush the back of your hand. This will give an indication of how much paint will come off the brush onto the miniature. Keep each drybrushing stroke light. It is better to do several light strokes than one heavy stroke to avoid overbrushing the edges. Next I drybrushed gold onto the flat areas I intended to leave metal coloured.

Painted to stage 1.

Stage 2
All the areas of flesh are given a base coat of green paint. I applied several thin coats rather than one thick coat as the green paint goes over darker colours really well.

Painted to stage 2.

Stage 2
Mix some slightly lighter green (in my case Bilious Green) and paint over the flesh, leaving the basecoat showing in only the deepest recesses in the same way as the Orc Linemen's flesh was painted. Once again be sure to keep the paint thinned down. By keeping it thin you will avoid getting the streak effect where the dark green meets the lighter green (see Orc Linemen stages 3, 4 and 5).

Painted to stage 3.

Stage 4
Paint the armour (in this case I have used purple paint to go with the rest of the Orc Team). First apply the base coat of Liche Purple. I then highlighted the armour with 4:1 Liche Purple and Skull White mix, then a 3:1 mix of the same colours. I didn't go any lighter than this, but once again you can add as many stages as you want.

Then I mix a 1:1 mix of Blood Red and Skull White and carefully drybrush the sunz logo on the belt. Finish off the sunz logos by painting over them with very thin Blood Red and paint the teeth on the logo with skull White.

Stage 6
Paint the steel caps on the boots with Chainmail, paint the eyes withBlood Red. Then paint the base Goblin Gre