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I basically posted this already but.....what the hell!

Can anybody give me any good ideas for ork clans (i collected bad moons for most of last year but i feel like starting afresh)?
I'm kind of tilting towards death skulls but i have no idea how to paint decent blue.

There isn't a Citadel color called "Decent Blue" yet? Color me shocked...

I'm personally a fan of Evil Suns and Goffs.

evil suns ARE pretty badass

Freebootaz! Because pirates.

Blooodaxes


Kammo is the best thing evah!

Deff Skullz!!!

I'd look nice on the table, having both yellow and blue.

It would also make sense that the Deff Skullz would want a chance to loot some expensive gear.

I have a mix of everything in my WAAAGH, I have lots of goofs cuz i like how the checks look, Deff Skullz as my lootas, Lots of evil sunz as bikers, deff coptas and trukk boyz. its an ork army, it does not need to be uniform

Freebootaz, then you can paint them in lots of different ways, and never get bored!!

The only issue with doing Deff Skullz is that they are super popular right now and seem to be the predominate Clan. Having said that, if you don't mind blue vs blue....go for it!

Freebootaz would be epic, and I don't think I've seem any entirely Freeboota army.

I'd love to do blood axes because my friend has a very Armageddon based Goff army (led by Ghazghkull Thraka) but I'm crap at painting camo and i enjoy having dreads and stuff in my army. Any suggestions for camo?

Goffs don't really do "cammo"... they do "black". Their cammo is black.

"Goffs", as an Ork thing, is based on the late-80s iterations of Goths in the UK, being a blend of punk and second-gen goth music and fashion, dressing in black, being menacing to people who find people in black clothes and white makeup menacing. They are something of a counter to the soccer hooligans that were the inspiration for the more typical Orks.

Camo is easy. Take three complementary colors, such as a light, medium, and dark version of the same color. Give your model a basecoat of the color you want to be the primary. Then, take the secondary and make dots of varying sizes. Finally, take the tertiary and use a fine brush to paint squiggly lines. Here's an example of one of my Blood Axes:




No, he doesn't look like much, but blame my skills rather than the technique. Some of my others also have scattered stripes of the camo colors on their exposed flesh to represent grease paint, though I couldn't find one to take pictures of at the moment.

Snake Bites! Probably the least done Ork clan out there. Boar Bikers and feral orks for the win!

Actually, that Blood Axe looks really good.

If you're looking for camouflage inspiration, just google "colored camouflage" and pick one. If you have difficulty copying those, there are quite some tutorials from girls painting their nails in camouflage, you can steal ideas from them.

However, painting camouflage en masse is a major pain in the rear if you don't enjoy painting a lot. If I could travel back in time, I'd probably do bad moonz or evil sunz, because painting everything yellow or red is so much easier than painting camouflage on 60 shoulder pads on your average boyz mob. And while large vehicles (battlewagons/dakkajets) look awesome in camo, it takes a long time to paint them.

I've always been a fan of the Goffs, but seeing the patchwork camo of the blood axes is a constant pleasure, too!

As for a "decent blue", try the 3 step blues that are on the GW site, it is actually very simple to do if you have the right colors on hand.

-cgmckenzie

All of them

My Orks are from all 6 clanz. That way i don't go out of my tree painting hundreds of models in the same scheme