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As someone being new to Orks I was wondering how to paint ork skin to a tabletop standard. Basically I'm mainly looking for a difference in the recesses of the muscle and some differentiation in the sinew of the arms especially. Any and all suggestions are welcome.

Faux Pas wrote:As someone being new to Orks I was wondering how to paint ork skin to a tabletop standard. Basically I'm mainly looking for a difference in the recesses of the muscle and some differentiation in the sinew of the arms especially. Any and all suggestions are welcome.

In this months WD there is a nice rundown for a Goff ork paint scheme.

Gnarloc Green > Badab Black > Gretchin Green

The results are reasonably good for a quick three color scheme and definitely good for tabletop ^_-.

Personally I use a mix of Catachan>snot>goblin greens. Whether that's the same as Gretchin Green I don't know. I'd be willing to bet it is. I usually lay down the following:

Catachan green
50/50 Cat/snot
Snot
50/50 Snot/goblin
goblin

The effect is pretty good, but a little time consuming.

Don't stress on it too much, as long as you use the same method for all of 'em, they'll look like a unified force and that's what's most important.

Quick and effective way I use is basecoat of Dark Angels Green, then Goblin Green with recesses showing then finally a 1:1 mix of Goblin Green and Skull White as a extreme highlight, although you don't need to go that far if you don't want to.

try my way:
basecoat: dark angels green or orkhide shade.

highlight:snot green

wash:thraka green.

highlight: snot green.

works really nice!

I use Ork hide shade foundation.

Knarloc green foundation.

50/50 Knarloc/ Goblin green.

Then Wash with Thraka green then Devlan mud when it's dry.

The Thraka blends the greens together and the Devlan mud gives them a nice dirty look, toning the green done.

Thanks for all the helpful advice, I think i have a pretty good idea in how to do skin. Another Question I have about painting orks would be how to paint black and white checkered areas like I've seen on a lot of of models. Paint white then just put in the black boxes or what?

for quick table-top i wouldn't 'hi-lite' per sec but would do a 50/50 of gretchin & knarloc green (get hold of a couple of the old mixing pots if you can and mix up a couple of batches for the whole army) then do a 70/30 (ish) mix of thrakka green and develan mud (again mix up a whole batch).
for the checkers try black undercoat then block out the white areas with Astronomicon Grey before hi-liting with white.

I prefer camo green for the lighter parts. You get an earthier tone to the boyz skin.

As for checks and dags, paint the area you want to decorate white (Astronomicon grey works well over black, then white over that) - then paint lines, then fill in the spaces you want filled in.

Skin:
*Slop on Dark-medium green
*Wash/ink everything
*Drybrush Light green
*Paint nails, mouths, bitz, teef all black
*Paint doo-dads

This is incredibly quick and easy and looks good. Doesn't matter if you choose muted realistic greens or bright 2nd edition greens or what, as long as they are the same, you are fine.

Also Checks:

*Paint a white bar across whatever you wish to check
*Thin small brush a black line on the top and bottom of the white bar.
*Make a Horizontal Black line through the middle of the white bar so it is split into top and bottom.
*Decide how many checks you think you can fit into the section. Most people are very good about being to visually divide things in half so I always suggest 4 or 8 checks long.

*Do a vertical line dividing the check into 2 halfs.
*Divide each of those into 2 halfs.
*Keep dividing until you reach your designated number of equally sized checks.
*once done, Find your sloppiest square that your lines spilled over into the most. That is your first BLACK check
*Alternate filling in boxes from that square for the rest of the stripe.

You should get something like this:


This is Goblin green base, dark green ink with scorpion green drybrush and minor highliting.
And the checks are free-hand using the technique above. While individually they may not be perfect and a little sloppy, that is visually hard to see usually without close inspection. While it isn;t going to be Golden demon, it will totally look good from most angles and tie your force together.

My simplest method for painting orks, and probably the laziest, but I think is definitely tablttop quality is goblin green base then one or two wash coats of thrakka green depending on how dark you want it. it works for me, looks decent and on a table with a bunch of models, looks good

Personally, I do Knarlock green, followed by a thraka green wash, then a 50/50 delvan mud/badab black wash. Quick, easy and looks surprisingly good.

*Double Post*

1. You can drybrush your green of choice, and basicly use a lighter shade to off set it.
2. You can use inks and highlight with your shade of green
3. you can drybrush over black primer... green
4. you can prime it white, use inks
5. you can prime it black, drybrush white, and use inks
6. Base coat the orks and spraypaint them all ... green then overcolor the details
7. Green paints then offset it with a darkershade
8. Paint them all green, then use inks over top.
9. prime the models white, then paint them green with an airbrush
10. Green. its whats for ork flesh.

I tried the way in the latest White Dwarf and was very impressed with the result, so much so my planned Speed Freaks army is now going to be a Goff army!!!
Mick

I basecoat da green. I highlight snot green. wash the whole model grefonnia sepia. and highlight goblin green

kay what i wanna know i how in the emperor's name do you guys come up with your paint schemes!? do you just put on random colors and expirement? cuz all i do for my orks is a coat of snot green and then a brown wash.

Experiments and informed guesswork is how I come up with schemes, but after 10 years in the hobby you get a good grasp of what colours work together and how to paint a certain colour. My current method for ork skin involves twenty to thirty coats of very, very thin mixes of dark angels green, scorched brown, camo green, rotting flesh, bad moon yellow and gobling green, with various green and brown glazes, all mixed to taste. It's undescribable, and takes bloody hours. I wouldn't reccomend it, but it looks ace!

To be honest just heavily drybrush the black undercoat with a dark green and then drybrush with a light green then just pick out raised mucles with the light green.and presto a really quick way of doing orc flesh just try out some difrent greens and find the ones you like

I paint orks(orcs) Blue! Enchanted Blue, a wash of Asurmen blue, then ice blue and another wash of bloo.

if you`re not afraid of old school, "red period" look, you can try basing the skin with snot green, washing with dark green ink (i use vallejo dark green ink), then highlighting with a snot green + sunburst yellow mix. I find this quick and quite effective method.
Here`s my sample:

I just painted my first ork ever and due to the fact I only have snot green I think it turned out very well, I used black ink in combination of various shades of the green-Painted very thinly.

i started using a guide, but then I changed everything

looks good!

Drill those barrels! Other armies have tiny weapons or 'dimples' in the barrel. We have giant friggin guns that looks weird without a hole in the end.

I literally use a giant powerdrill with a little bit and drill out the barrels. Quick and easy.

1. chaos black
2. dark angels green
3. goblin green
4. drybrush with scorpion green
5. levithan purple wash

believe it or not purple goes well with green*

*So says my mom

here is how I do mine, sorry I don't have a pic to upload

basecoat with gnarloc green
paint on dark green ink - don't water it down
after it completely dries (probably a day)
drybrush with snot green.

very simple, subtle shading, compliments the other colors of orks very well since it is not as bright as goblin or scorpion green

NaZ