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I'm looking at painting up some of my Orks as Evil Sunz but am really struggling to paint anything red.

I want a really bright Red. I want the colour of GWs Blood Red.

I've tried with Black, white, mechrite red undercoats. But Blood Red is just so thin and either comes out too patchy, pink or most often oranage. Other reds I've tried are too dark.

Can someone please help me?

Use army painter's spray on red if you can get away with it as that is the fastest option.

Otherwise, do a white undercoat, then white+red mixed together as a second layer, and then one or two coats of the thin blood red on top of that. Add a baal red wash to even it out a bit more and that should be incredibly bold red.

Alternatively, try a different paint range with higher pigment levels in their bright red (Vallejo and P3 will meet this requirement I think).

Okay, Cheers.

I use red gore undercoat which with 2 or 3 layers leaves a nice base and then put blood red on that or if it still doesnt do it well do a 50/50 before the blood red. and if you want it really bright add in a 50/50 blood red blazing orange for a nice final highlight

Or start with bestial brown this also allows for rust to show through in spots

How I build up my Red for my space marines is I start I spray Chaos Black, then Dark Flesh, then Scab Red, then Red Gore.

Cheers.

I think I'll give all of these a try and see which works best for me.

If you can only get gw paints , (i paint alot of red ), paint mecrite red, then either scab red or red gore , then blood red that works for me, for large areas i use games workshops large drybrush , i paint mechrite then a light coat of blood red , then pain more blood red. hope that helps