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Hey everyone!
So I've recently started painting my very first 40k army of Orks, and it has been going pretty well. However I was hoping someone could give me some good mixes for goggle colours and how to go bout getting that lens look to it. I'm looking for a red-ish mix for my burnas and a blue-ish mix for my kommandos/snikrot. I'm new at this so please try to be relatively specific

Thanks in advance!

Well, whilst I'm not an Ork player, and so I can't entirely help your situation, I can still point you in the direction of this Tutorial on 'Painting Space Marine Eye Lenses'. The theory of the Lenses and your Goggles are much the same, so perhaps you can get some ideas from that Topic.

Hope that was useful,

Martin

You can paint in whatever colours you like, the mix is unimportant really, the glass look, which is what you're after can be done a couple of ways.

Either a solid base of blue, or whatever colour you are going for, then highlight most the lens with a wash of white or grey, keep doing this but in a smaller area and decrease the amount of water to make a more pignemted solution as you highlight a part of the area you have just painted.

It will probaly take several attempts to get it looking right and the use of a magnifying lens!

The other methods is a simpler one and is to paint your main colour and just highlight the outside edge of the lens with grey or white, it's simpler and can be quite effective with practice. All it takes is a little smear around the edge.

Yeah, paint them exactly like lenses on marine vehicles or those jewel thingies on Eldar - there are quite a few good tutorials around.

as for colour, personally i'd go for red, just cos it gives a nice contrast with green skin.

Here is what I do...

http://mybattalion.com/community/1597-gunzhard/photos/photo?albumid=850#photoid=10134

For red glass, I paint it white, then add blood red. I then put a bit of red gore along the edge in a semi-circle.

Thanks for all the advice everyone!