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Hi there, i have recently started painting some of my orks with white skin colour (inspired by the white orc from the hobbit) and i was wondering if anyone had any good ideas on how to go about doing this. I'd really appreciate any help thanks

Base coat in white rather than black ?

Here is cool pic that you may like.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/219299?browseid=6014534

Check out my albinorks thread for details on how I did this guy.

Well tomcat just saved me the bother of telling you about his thread lol.

Those both look pretty bad ass thanks

That coolminiornot link doesn't work for me, but if it's linking to this picture:
Then I'd just like to say that this image has actually been tampered with by the creator, it has not actually been painted like this. The real miniature is closer to something like this:


But if you want a scheme like the one from The Hobbit, MrWatchingPaintDry on youtube has a good pale-skinned tutorial for the goblins here:

I paint some of my orks with a pinkish red phycoerythrin colour that over powers and supplements the smaller amount of green chlorophyll because they live on a shaded cave rich planet with extreme weather conditions.
I use a base colour of codex grey (dawnstone) highlighted in white and cover that in a wash of baal red (caroburg crimson{have heard that this is not very similar match tho}) then blemished and spotted with more neat red wash to create the appearance of freckles.
Being the overly complex giant walking lichen that are orks variant colour schemes could vary as much as any photosynthetic chemicals can, or if you want any colour just ‘because’ why not!
I hope your albino orks come out well, its nice to see some variant skin colours, i try and even keep my green orks as variable as human skin is. I just find it far more likely and interesting than a set tone.

That sounds great ill give it a try.