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with a little finesse, you can easily create the impression that the orks paint their skin whatever color you want. Personally, I think white orks (like the white-painted uruk-hai) would look cool.

Ailaros wrote:with a little finesse, you can easily create the impression that the orks paint their skin whatever color you want. Personally, I think white orks (like the white-painted uruk-hai) would look cool.

True . I have seen pale white orcs and they looked pretty cool.

my friend does green skinned orks but with blue war paint. like the celts would wear. it looks really good

my friend made a purple ork it looks fairly nice

Ya man mine I am currently painting are red skinned

Not orks per se, but at one point I was planning a smurffy night goblin army that was gonna have white robes and blue skin.

Honestly I think Ork's in anything other then green are silly, or dumb even (no offense).

I just make every Ork have different type of green, from the darkest possible green to almost yellow, or even brownish. I haven't done a single ork skin tone the same yet. Layer it on differently, with different paints etc. For me this way they all look more unique without coming off... weird...

While generally I stick to green I painted these a while ago. I've got a unit of 12 purple Boyz too. They do need tidying/finishing though.

Purple boyz look awesome!

A Black Ram wrote:Purple boyz look awesome!

+1 to that I have seen purple orks covered in flowers. Brown orks look good as well.

How about this for an alternative?
Since they are part fungi, make a race of Orks who are CLOSER to the fungi, with more of their traits.
Like this!

I dare you.
Would be epic.

Well most fungi are white-yellow-brown. And brown Orks look ok.