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I assembled and primed my first Boy yesterday, and painted his skin (alas for my lack of anything to do washes with). I'm wondering about a decent-looking paint job that's fairly basic (these are just the Boyz, after all). I was thinking Speed Freeks, as the flesh is Goblin Green and I thought the lighter green would clash less with red. Thoughts?

Here's the speedpainting tutorial I based my Ork army on:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/237797.page

You can easily do red for their clothing and it will look great.

Oh very nice, although I'm one of those people who only owns black primer. I really should have thought this out and bought some new brushes and the ink washes before I started the process on this poor Ork ._.

For my Ork skin I solely use the foundation paints, so it covers over Black primer really well.

And if you use foundations you will be fine to get a decent red out too.

My Ork skin recipe is:

- Basecoat Orkhide Shade
- First layer of 50/50 Orkhide Shade and Knarloc Green, leaving orkhide to create shadows
- Second layer of Pure Knarloc Green
- Highlight of 50/50 Knarloc Green and Gretchin Green
- Final highlight of Gretchin Green

Comes out like:

Oh very nice. I only own about 8 proper Citadel paints at the moment, none of which are washes or foundations. I need to rub some money on it first

Well what green paints have you got?

At the moment, two pots of Goblin Green. Remarkable circumstance, having just dug these out of the garage and all

Well using the tutorial, all you need is Devland Mud and potentially Thraka Green washes. You should be good from there.

my ork skin is fairly basic and i think it looks awesome. Goblin Green then thraka green wash over top. after i highlight with the goblin green again. compared to what you guys do my way seems really noobish ahahahaha

You don't really need to use all of the fancy stuff. I've been using a base coat of orchid shade and then a second coat of knarloc green, leaving the orkhide in the crevices. It doesn't looks ridiculously amazing, but it'll get the job done, and still look pretty damn good.

I don't even use GW paints. I get Applebarrel paints from my local crafts store. Made a custom mix of green and black, some blue in there I think, and it works brilliantly. Don't even need to basecoat or prime, and it covers in a single coat. I don't know why the Green skin color does that, since the brown and bone colors I mixed up don't cover nearly so well.