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Started paint my marines weeks ago using a black base coat. The main armour color is orange, but doesn't seem to come on........orange enough? lol
I've watered it down, but doesn't seem to come out well. Should I be basecoating white perhaps?

Try using a red like mechrite or some lighter browns depending on the tone you want over the black, then orange over that.

Oh, and then shoot yourself in the face for the beiber-tar.

Try priming white then using thin layers of orange. Its like painting on a canvas. If it is black, naturally all colors are going to be darkened. On white, they will naturally pop to their full saturation.

Try using the Foundation Orange from Citadel.

That should cover pretty well and then you can use blazing orange from there, and go through your highlight colours.

You need to remember that using a black primer will darken colours and a white one will lighten them. Best idea for relatively neutral colour change is to use a Grey Primer.

If you want to paint orange, yes, you should primer with white.

If you are mostly orange, primer white or gray. I have painted some of my orange army with black primer and it was a LOT of work to get the orange to be bright.

Also you could try finding an orange acrylic basecoat spraypaint and then just do your orange lightly over that. That is how I plan on doing the rest of my tanks.

If you have lots of dark colors that go along with the orange, primer light gray - if you don't - use white primer.

Also, what shade of orange are you trying to paint with? Blazing orange? Fiery orange? Foundation orange?

If you want to see what blazing orange comes out looking like when you put enough layers on / or primer white and gray check the painting blog in my sig. I am currently painting an orange chaos army using blazing orange as the main base color.

Good luck.

I had some decent success with, strangely enough, a red sprayed basecoat, with a couple coats of thin fluorescent orange over that and sunburst yellow/orange drybrushed highlights. I quite liked the result. I was aiming for a safety orange though, so it really depends on what you're going for.

I use a black undercoat for orange, although it's complicated somewhat by the fact that the orange and the wash I use are both discontinued...

I start with a black undercoat, recoat the orange areas in Bestial Brown, then paint in Fiery Orange. Wash with Red Ink, let it dry, and then recoat in Fiery Orange, leaving the red in the deep creases. Highlight by mixing white into the orange.

Comes out more or less like this:

Here is where I'm at with black. Still playing around with colors. Repainting my Rhino. Using black primer and doing the edges grey. Then do detail in orange.

Well justin bieber..... you could either try white primer or a foundation paint comparible to the color you want to use...maybe try Iyanden Darksun, Macharius solar Orange, or Mechrite Red. Personally Ive always disliked primering anything white because it seems temperamental when spreaying it and I hate going back over everything and painting the black areas. Id rather just start black and work up.

Macharius Solar Orange over black primer.

Use it, love it, live it.

Bieber? Really....?