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I've done a little research (Little being the key word) and I can't find anything about the shape of a orks iris.
I think the only possible one are your typical serpent like eye, the human eye or just one stock colour eye.

Then there's the fact about what colour, does it vary from ork to ork or is it a constant?

I was reading on the wiki that a ork would get darker and darker in green as it grows and becomes older/stronger. Now since I want to make my painting as realistic to the fluff as possible i'm not sure what colour to paint my weirdboy (Shaman model).
He's withered so I was wondering whether this would make his skin paler and override the darker green?

How well does a ork keep his weapon and armour/clothes. The majority go for a dirty look and I can understand, but I feel that after wrenching a lot of teeth out your going to look after your weapons.
The armour/plates I would understand more if they become rusty.

Anyway would be much obliged if you can tell me any of this. Thanks.

The key description for orks is 'variety'. There are very few hard and fast answers when it comes to orks.

Ork eyes are typically depicted as human like.

Or eye color varies by depiction. Red used to be the most common depiction, these days you often see them as human colored sometimes with red irises, and at least one GW painting article demonstrated painting them red with a yellow iris.

As for skin color, I think that will vary depending on the individual. You could justify your wierdboys skin many different ways. He isn't getting bigger and tougher in the traditional ork sense, so his skin may be paler, or it could be a result of his power. Or you could make it a darker green. Either is going to be valid.

Ork care for it's weapons/clothing is going to vary depending on the local 'kulture'. This is a big part of the fun in painting orks, you get to define what the local 'kulture' is. Certainly dirty and poorly maintained is common. But Storm Boyz are noted for their military 'precision' and cleanliness, all spit and polish. Lootahs are also noted for babying their weapons on occasion.

So decide what the local 'kulture' is and go with that. I knew a player (my wife, actually) who decided her lootas all wore fancy hats because of some misunderstanding I can't remember convincing them that being "dappah" meant they were tough.

Again, with the Orks there is very little set in stone. If you take the time to define their kulture, and then follow those guidelines consistantly, you will have a good looking and fluffy army.


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One more thing on the 'nothing is set in stone' aspect of orks:

You may have noticed the rule "red wunz go fasta". For years players (even GW employees and WD articles) have been justifying that in ways that don't actually require the models to be red.

Some orks wear red tinted goggles, because that makes everything red. Others were taught blue was red, so their blue vehicles go faster.

Embrace the Orkiness. When painting Space Marines it pays to research how things should be. When painting Orks it is better to first research how things should be, then deviate with humorous justifications.

Not sure on what to make my "Ork Kulture"
I don't want your typical devlan mud wash done army look.
Nor do I want everything sparkly and "fresh" I was planning on muted a sombre orks, to represent the devilish dreams that are given due to being so close to a Weirdboy oozing warp energy.

I think I will go for pale skin, I would show veins. Which brings another questions. What colour is ork blood? In it's de-oxygenated form considering it's still in the blood stream. Or oxygenated, which looks better

It's a flyboyz list, and I was planning on doing the redtinted goggles.

On the subject of a ork iris, I'm not sure. The red might detract from the face teeth and muscles.

A human iris? Makes sense, will do the slightly lighter colour of choice for the strands running through the iris (Insert science name)

Thanks.

In very old fluff, orks had green blood. In most modern interpretations it is either dark red or black.

With the weapons, one thing they could do would be to leave them rusty and dirty to increase the likelihood of infected wounds. Obviously they don't know this, they just assume that "Da durty wunz iz killier!"

As for the eyes, very bright green or yellow could work.

In 40k orks are green with red eyes and red blood.

In WHFB orcs become darker as they become bigger and more powerful, blood is red or black.

The Orkoid eye is human analog. Ork eyes are described as beady and bloodshot.

I however paint my orks bright green with yellow eyes.

1: Humanoid, usually. Sometimes it's a one-color glowing red eye.
2: Skin color or eye? Skin color varies from ork to ork, with bigger, older Orks having darker skin, and younger Orks having brighter green skin.
3: Sure why not.
4: Any way he damned well wants to keep them. Orks don't really have regimentalism or anything.

Another way to consider the "orks get darker as they get older and larger" is "darker than the smaller orkoids of their homeworld". If your grots are light yellow-green, your orks can be darker, but still relatively bright. If you want to go for 'grim-dark' orks, you could start with relatively deep green grots, and go to very dark/almost black orks.

Still another way to think of this is "darker than he was before". If an individual ork is pretty light green as a yoof, then he might get darker, but still not be as deep green as another ork.

In short, paint them the way you want, and justify it afterwards!

Orks are typically described as having 'beady' red eyes, which I generally take to mean as, whether or not their 'whites' are white, most of what you see is iris, which is red.

In 2nd ed ORKs the Weird boys used to live in towers away from ork settlements and they wore lots of copper which would conduct their psychic powers, and had a staff with copper.

With the whole idea behind Red one go faster its all based upon the one ork that one a race with a red trukk so they all think red ones go faster. I paint my trukks blue for the other idea that blue is lucky, but paint the trakks or tires and even my orks boots red because it does make them go faster.

On the cover of the 3rd ed Ork book the ork is shot and bleeding brownish green goo. Orks bleeding red was published in a white dwarf to get rid of the debate of black or red blood.

For my Ork Kulture I follow da old ways of 2nd ed, that all boys come from different squads, like lootas are deff skullz, mega nobz are badmoon, trukk boys are evil suns, kommandos are blood axes, grot are snake bites. so on and so forth, but they all pay allegence to my warboss which is badmoon, so they all have badmoons but are all still bearing the colors of their own clans.

Orks are however you make them, ive seen orange orks on dakka dakka, and an albino ork also.