For my orks, I like to base them all differently in pale colours, then wash them green. I feel it gives a natural variation to the skin across the army. Not too much contrast, just a little
I used an airbrush to base them, I would put some white in the cup, and base one model, then ad a drop of a colour (almsot any colour) and base another model int he changed colour, and then add another colour... eventually your pretty much going to end up spraying brown when mixing all the colours under the sun together.
Once all the orks are based in pale rainbow colours, I would drybrush them white, or an even paler version of their colour... not too fussy
tbh.
Then wash brown and wash green like you have done.
Its a fair bit of hassle to do the rainbow base coats.. but Adds another level of depth to a mob or horde even.
Think about it this way; put a bunch of people together.. and youve got a whole aray of ethnicities, and even within the same ones, you still have variations in skin tone... This pretty much holds true everywhere, so why not with orks?
lol its a tricky subject to talk about properly without risking the racism bombs.... but imagine 10 guys you know of the same ethnicity... maybe theyre white, or asian, or chinese or african, or whatever it doesnt matter... point is that those 10 people probably do not all have 100% the exact same colours in their skin but theyre probably all pretty close.
Being as orks are plant life
look at plants... if you plant 50 different seeds of the same kind of plant, theyre all going to come up subtley different, one might hvae a greener stem than another because it enjoys the condiitons more than this other one thats picky about the light or the soil nutrients or something... unless theyre all clones (which is quite easy with plants
tbh) they are certain to have this genetic variation.
