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I have an Ork army to paint - none of it has been primed yet. Ill most likely use the Greyscale technique to paint the boys as its fast. Id like to support this technique with either Bad Moon Clan marking or Goff markings. Im not a talented painter so any pointers would be appreciated. A way to make black and white checkers would be nice.

what I did on my mechanicus pattern so far is base the part white, many many coats of white

then draw the pattern on the part with a thin tip marker, and fill in with black. when i didn't do this there would always be a curve to my lines.

with helper lines it is 500% easier to do! And you paint over them anyway

a simple bad moons yellow is,

1)base coat Iyanden dark sun
2)paint sunburst yellow over that (it doesn't have to be perfect)
3)gryphonne sepia wash

perfect ork yellow every time

Or you could just buy Vallejo Model Color Lemon Yellow and have bad moon yellow in the first place!

Yes but one way gives you a flat plain yellow with no shading or highlights. The other gives you a dirty multi coloured yellow that looks orky.

For the finest marker tip, I recommend getting a Sakura Micron marker. Their 005 pen has a 0.2mm tip. It's sexah.

Edit: Link would help...
http://www.sakuraofamerica.com/Pen-Archival

For yellow ork armor:

*White undercoat
*Yellow on the white
*Gryphone Sepia wash

Let Dry

*BAM* it is awesome and so easy.

If you go Goffs, I second the Sakura Micron pens. I LOVE microns. Plenty of sizes to choose from, down to the 005. With a light touch and a fine tip you can make lines the width of a hair, if you so desire. The ink is top notch, as well. I've noticed that the fine-tipped Sharpies have a slightly reddish metallic sheen to them, rather like the ink of those not-quite-black ballpoint pens. Microns are black. Just black. The ink has a bit of flow to it, as well, but not too much. If you ever want to blackline some fine recessed details, like the small grooves in SM leg armor, carefully run a micron over it a few times and the ink will make its way down into the very bottom of the groove where even a >1mm tip can't reach. And yet, when you draw a line, the ink doesn't bleed.

As long as you can paint a few layers of white to get a good base, a Goff scheme would be nice and easy, not to mention looking ten types of badass. My inner ork compels me to advise you against painting up "any of dem pansy toof hordin' gits and get yurself some proppa Goff lads. While da yelluh boys is countin der teef, a good Goff is nockin' a whole moufful outta summuns 'ed!"