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I started using orks sometime last year. Other than wanting to be smash my foes with my boyz, another thing I strive for is amazing paint skills. I've done my research, I've bought better paints, and now I'm trying to figure out what people are doing to achieve such amazing results(in my opinion). Some things I've tried to mimic by eye, but I'm starting to believe I'm missing out on a lot of valuable knowledge that would help me to save more of my boyz from suffering the fate of a sub-par paint job(in my opinion). I recently purchased Snikrot, and decided to look for some tutorials to maybe mimic some painting techniques. So far, I came across this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkESbEhj9Ao

In the comments, he mentioned some painting techniques he found in a magazine. So I figured I might just ask you guys for some tips on how he might have achieved this superb paint job(Mainly, the skin. Funny thing about my models right now is that most of them have their skin painted but not their clothes because I keep practicing lol.

You're already practicing, and the only way to get better is to keep at it. Seriously, the key to getting great results is to paint as much as you possibly can. Paint until your hands are stuck in claw claw shapes and you've gone crosseyed. Then paint some more.

Yep totally agree practice and experience helps a bunch to learn what paint consistencies to use to practice you brush strokes and line work etc. I watched the youtube vid and it's a nice paintjob but I think he just took a lot of time to build up thin layers to blend his colours nicelyand he has some nice steady lines for his highlights to give that overall finish. Practice and experiment with mixing colours and trying to blend them. Good Luck!

While I wouldn't say my skin is as good as that dudes, I do my orks by simply layering up different greens. Here's a sample:



This wasn't even that many layers. Picture is huge in the gallery if you fancy a zoom.

For this one I'm pretty sure I used the following:

Prime with black spray
Thinned chaos black wash to fill any cracks I missed
Base coat of Orkhide shade
Orkhide shade/ Snot green mix*
Devlan mud wash
Thinned snot green
Snot green and sunburst yellow mix
Thinned devlan mud wash
Snot green and lots of sunburst yellow highlight
Sunburst yellow super highlight

*Every coat from here on is a gradually smaller area than the one before. This way you get a gradient effect from the darker areas to the lighter ones.