Who says Orks have to be green?

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**Gundor**

A long time ago a bunch of people played Orks and they all had green skin. When I started my Ork army I wanted to make sure that their figures and mine could be recognized easily from each other. So I painted the skin blue.

Here are just a few. Hope you like them.

**Pomyboy**

Kewl

**Mr Morden**

1.Nicely done

2. Blue paint jobs = Deathskulls who IIRC paint themsleves blue.

**thesilverback**

Good looking Blue Boyz got to be some Deff Skullz.

**coganaut**

Those look great. The change up from green is always nice to see!

**ironicsilence**

Mr Morden wrote:
1.Nicely done

2. Blue paint jobs = Deathskulls who IIRC paint themsleves blue.

Blue Paint Jobs = smurfs

And I support smurfs. I have a 500 point ork army that I've painted blue, complete with a papa smurf warboss

**dkellyj**

I did the same thing, a bit darker on the blue.

The fluff I used was their spore landed on an ice-methane based world and that environment caused the Orks to come out blue.

**Bonde**

I really like the blue and it looks well on the models. You could explain the blue colour in a lot of ways, they could, for example, come from a planet with bluish dirt or fauna.

**Snrub**

Nice blue Orks. I like em.

**andtheyshallknownofear**

Many black library books (as close as you can get to cannon with 40k) say that the tougher and stronger the ork is, the bigger and darker he is. And in the book imperial glory the orks are straight up brown. On the note of painting, I don't like the look of them much, but that is just my opinion and they are very well painted.

**Gundor**

Bonde wrote:
I really like the blue and it looks well on the models. You could explain the blue colour in a lot of ways, they could, for example, come from a planet with bluish dirt or fauna.

I tell people that they are holding their breath.

**El_Capitan**

Though they may be blue, deep down, the orks know that no matter what they do, no matter how many battles they win, they shall never be Ultramarines.

**NoQuestionzAsked**

Ultramarine Orks..... i found my new army! Yes please

**Vineheart01**

Nice idea. I like it

**vim_the_good**

These look great. It would be nice to see some closer shots. Do you have any more?

**steelcult**

My orks are green, blue, brown, purple - fungus comes in many colors.

**Mr Morden**

Some of Da Boyz - if they are impressed by a Space Marine Chapter in blue may think that they can be harder if they emulate them - same as Red ones go faster

**Gundor**

No way an Ork would want to be a Smurf. The Orks were blue first and the marines copied them.

And yes, red ones do go fasta!

Thanks for the kind words and I am working on close up shots.

**riverhawks32**

Honestly, I think it is a cool change!

**Tpiddy**

Digging the blue. And your painting skills are great so all around they are pretty freakin sweet. Only like a 150 more of them to paint, right? : )

**Necron123**

Evil smurfs is what I am thinking. You painted them really well.

**Great Deceiver**

They sort of remind me of the Nightkin from the Fallout universe.