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I did an ork painting tutorial over on Talk Wargaming and figured I'll share it here. It's not perfect (my painting isn't perfect - but it might come in handy for someone)


The following is a step by step instructional on how to paint Goff Ork Boyz to a tabletop standard reasonably quickly.




Remember that when painting Orks variety is the spice of life so try to mix the color combinations up a bit. For example on some orks you should darken or lighten each aspect of their clothing, one might prefer black boots, another could be in favour of muddy brown boots. Keep mixing things up.


How to Paint Goff Orks


Paints Needed

[*]Abaddon Black
[*]White Scar
[*]Rhinox Hide
[*]Doombull Brown
[*]Tuskgor Fur
[*]Waaagh Flesh
[*]Warboss Green
[*]Skarsnik Green
[*]Biel-Tan Green
[*]Carroburg Crimson
[*]Agrax Earthshade
[*]Nuln Oil
[*]Leadbelcher
[*]Ironbreaker
[*]Runefang Steel
[*]Druchi Violet
[*]Zandri Dust
[*]Ushabti Bone
[*]Screaming Skull
[*]Nuln Oil
[*]Eshin Grey
[*]Dawnstone
[*]Balthasar Gold

Painting Orks Step by Step


For the purposes of this tutorial I'm going to slapping some paint on this here basic ork.



Glue together, clean flash, undercoat.

Step One - Basecoating






Basecoat Skin Waaagh Flesh



Basecoat straps and boots Rhinox Hide




Basecoat Metal areas Leadbelcher





Basecoat Skull, Teeth and Claws Zandri Dust
Basecoat Gold Jewelry Balthasar Gold
Basecoat Helmet Adornment Leadbelcher (pictured is Ceramite White - paint it Leadbelcher)


Step Two - Shading









Wash straps and boots with Agrax Earthshade
Wash Skin with a 50:50 mix of Carroburg Crimson and Water then Biel-Tan Green
Wash Metal with Agrax Earthshade then Nuln Oil
Wash Bone, Teeth and Claws with Seraphim Sepia


Step Three - First Highlight














Layer the skin with Warboss Green





Layer the leather straps and boots with Doombull Brown.



Layer the teeth with Ushabti Bone
Drybrush the Skull with Ushabti Bone
Fine highlight the rings and boot caps with Iron Breaker
Drybrush the pistol and chopper with Iron Breaker
Highlight Helmet Adornment with Ironbreaker
Highlight the gold rings with Auric Armor Gold



Layer the black clothing with Eshin Grey
Fine edge highlight the helmet and shoulder pad with Eshin Grey

Step Four - Final Highlight












Paint striations on the Orks skin areas with Skarsnik Green.

For those wondering what striations are they're the muscle fibers showing through the skin.





Drybush the metal areas with Runefang Steel
Fine highlight the straps and boots with Tuskgor Fur
Fine highlight the clothing with Dawnstone
Drybrush the Skull and highlight the teeth with a 50:50 mix of Screaming Skull and White


Step Five - Glazing and Finishing Touches
















Glaze the skin with Waywatcher Green
Glaze the Black clothing with an Abaddon Black Glaze
Paint the checks on the helmet with White Scar
Paint the helmet adornment with Leadbelcher
Give the checks an Agrax Earthshade Wash








Carry out any last minute touchups and give the lips a Druchii Violet wash.





Dot in the eyes with Khorne Red
Base the figure







That's it, they look ok, are reasonably fast to paint in batches and nothing is difficult - no wet blending or anything borderline difficult just simple layering and drybrushing.


Painting Orks needn't take ages and can yield really good results.

This is a really great tutorial.

Nice tutorial! I forget that Goffs don't have any red in their scheme anymore. Don't see them as much anymore either. I really like your step by step pics and color listings.

Nice!

and I need to redo this how many times ?!

Awesome tutorial and really impressive paintwork in it's own right.

Maybe I'm an ass to point it out but you used 22 different paints on a single dude but didn't (forgot to?) drill the barrel hole. I'm somewhat amused.

Beauty of Ork guns is they don't always have holes for the bullets to come out of. That's why they miss so much.

Beautiful model.

Lol there's also mould lines all over the place. Let's say I didn't prep the model sufficiently in my haste to slap the paint on

Wow mate- He looks brill! Definitely Waaaaaaghhh! worthy

Trying this one out tomorrow

 techsoldaten wrote:
Beauty of Ork guns is they don't always have holes for the bullets to come out of. That's why they miss so much.

Beautiful model.

this made me laugh its in the fluff, most ork weaponry works for no reason whatsoever


But otherwise great tutorial I have needed some motivation to get some ork boys painted, might pick out 10 and apply this technique. that way i can mix them into my units (i like my mobs to be diverse and non clan specific)

Solar Shock wrote:

 techsoldaten wrote:
Beauty of Ork guns is they don't always have holes for the bullets to come out of. That's why they miss so much.

Beautiful model.

this made me laugh its in the fluff, most ork weaponry works for no reason whatsoever

Hee hee not true, it works because they believe it will. Orky technology is the greatest

Thanks for sharing, especially like how the skin comes out.