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anyone have any cool alternative orks? i mean using the standard minatures, but other than green skin how can they be spiced up in the paining department?

any examples welcome! googling orks just gives the standard sea of green

Orks were in their early inception brown, because they also were a parody of fascism, especially "stormboyz".

That said there is a thread for red ones.

If you mind the sculpts there's also decent alternatives.

Two variants I've seen are brown skin and blue skin.

There's a lot more variety in green than you might first realise as well. Giving a green skinned model a touch of pink on the end of the nose can add a lot of interest, although that works better on goblins than orks.

Rather than googling miniatures, why don't you try drawing inspiration from another medium such as movies or fantasy art? Sorry I'm not posting pictures, I'm on my phone and I'm a bit useless at doing that sort of thing with it.

Wolfboy wrote:
googling orks just gives the standard sea of green

Just google "alternate ork colours".....
Results in quite a list of links to similar threads on this and other forums!

Otherwise you can also go the creative way via this site: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/orkp.php

what about black orks?

They are like that in lord of the rings

purple skin - for bugz boyz.

If you've got the hand for it you could cover your orks in tattoos. That would help break up the green skin and add a few more colours to your palette.

Red or reddish brown is classic, for sure. Blues are more rare, but exist (my dungeon crawl orcs are blue). Pale white/grey is cool looking. Or, alternately a reddish brown with grey/white paint all over them, in a kind of woad-like body paint?

I'm not much of an ork fan but even I've considered doing a force for 2nd edition and I can guarantee they won't be green.

An example of my blue orcs.