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I know black orc armour should be painted black hence the name, but i saw some black orcs in a GW once and they were painted a crimsony-red colour i thought was scab red. This looks quite good but i dont know whether to paint mine this way or black. I quite like my armies to be a little bit different but im not sure how they will turn out. To make matters more complicated i want to include Grimgor for my lords choice when my army reaches 2000pts and i think he'll look wierd in scab red. Does any one have a view on this or even better pics of black orcs or Grimgor in scab red just to see how they look?

Ill flick through google for pics in a moment, but red armour on black orcs looks pretty good.
allthough i think the best way of getting a nice deep red would be:

Spray black
Paint scab red
brown ink wash the red
Scab red highlight
50/50 scab red and blood red highlight
fine blood red highlight


Should have a nice dark red that stands out well.
I actually use red as my metal colour for most orks/orcs now, since its different and looks good.

Well while going "goff" is good for beginers.(motivanonal postar idea; goffs:helping lazy painters feel good about thier work since 1989)id go with bad moonz or evil sunz.

warboss spinetwizta wrote:Well while going "goff" is good for beginers.(motivanonal postar idea; goffs:helping lazy painters feel good about thier work since 1989)id go with bad moonz or evil sunz.

Its fantasy orks and thx for the guide JD i got most of those colours, any one got any pictures??

Good quality pics are hard to find even on google lol

Saw it was in WD issue 329,grimgor looks rather nice in red armour IMHO.

I was unable to find any good pictures for you and I am sorry if my post is not helpful.

Anywho,here's a link to GW's site.It's an interesting little article on black ork tribes,just if you wany to take a look.

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=cat1300316&categoryId=400025§ion=&aId=1100008

Thx for the picture, it looks quite good. As for the article, it was very useful so dont worry, i liked the look of the mad dog boyz and da rock 'eads. Useful article i suggest visiting it if youre reading this and have some black orcs.