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Hello everyone, I just got into the hobby and got myself a few Ork sets to start. Building the kits themselves was no issue, had all the tools I needed and just a matter of following the instructions. However, painting... Oh boy, where do I even start?
(I had originally written a long rant here, but scrapped because I don't wanna waste your time with my nonsense)
So anyway, I kinda skimmed my selection down to Citadel, Vallejo, AK and Pro Acryl; but now some of those brands have different series, so even more choices... So I decided to just go with any brand that offers me a decent starter kit that would give me some nice colors for my Orks. Which brand would you recommend me for that?
I should mention my friend got me a set of Van Gogh brushes, so that's a start (not sure what the general opinion on these are, but they were free so whatever).

Thanks for your help, I'm sure many of you have already answered thousand of posts like this.

Monument is offering a deal where you buy 8 or more singles and you basically get them at the "starter kit" price. Throw in your favorite youtuber's discount code and at least part of your shipping is covered. Their website isn't very friendly for adding lots of singles, bit I'm teetering on the edge of doing this myself since I can swap out colors I'm unlikely to use for washes, or just get a cheaper subset that focuses on green .

Do you plan to use contrast type paints? That could steer your initial investment.

Coh Magnussen wrote:
Do you plan to use contrast type paints? That could steer your initial investment.

Honestly? I just don't know. I still don't quite understand if they're better or what I'm looking for. That was, infact, my main issue with Vallejo. Game Color? Xpress? I don't know.

Here's the gist of the diff between regular or contrast painting
In classic miniature painting, you'd paint with opaque colors and then add shading to the model using inks or washes. In contrast painting method, you skip the separate shading step and just slap on contrast paint, effectively performing two steps at once




Now then, also would like to see some examples of Ork minis you fancy and would like to use as reference?

If you have a store near you, go and ask to try the verious options that store holds stock for.

If Vallejo is what you have easy access to, you wouldn't do badly to just grab some game colors in the basics (white, black, brown, a couple greens and whatever your klan colors are) along with a black or brown wash, and a green contrast/express, and maybe a green wash as well. That will let you try different approaches without breaking the bank.

I don't think you can go wrong with any of the brands you listed. Or even mixing and matching. My paint shelf has paints from citadel, army painter, and Vallejo, and they all work fine (it also has some apple barrel craft paint, but we don't talk about that). My primer is from badger I think (stynlrez)... they all work fine together.

 tauist wrote:
Here's the gist of the diff between regular or contrast painting
In classic miniature painting, you'd paint with opaque colors and then add shading to the model using inks or washes. In contrast painting method, you skip the separate shading step and just slap on contrast paint, effectively performing two steps at once




Now then, also would like to see some examples of Ork minis you fancy and would like to use as reference?

So in short, contrast paint is basically what you get for speed painting, right? As for examples, the basic Ork boyz from the Combat Patrol would do. A Deff Dread or Trukk would also be nice.

 Skinnereal wrote:
If you have a store near you, go and ask to try the verious options that store holds stock for.

Esh, the only shop near me is a general board game one (so TCGs, wargames, etc.) and its owner only cares about pushing the most expensive product possible, pretty sure they only sell Citadel. There used to be a dedicated and well liked Hobbyism shop, but sadly it closed after the owner retired and found no successor to continue the business (quite a shame, that shop had been open since 1906).

Coh Magnussen wrote:
If Vallejo is what you have easy access to, you wouldn't do badly to just grab some game colors in the basics (white, black, brown, a couple greens and whatever your klan colors are) along with a black or brown wash, and a green contrast/express, and maybe a green wash as well. That will let you try different approaches without breaking the bank.

I don't think you can go wrong with any of the brands you listed. Or even mixing and matching. My paint shelf has paints from citadel, army painter, and Vallejo, and they all work fine (it also has some apple barrel craft paint, but we don't talk about that). My primer is from badger I think (stynlrez)... they all work fine together.

Well, I don't really have any issue getting any of the brands mentioned (I'm spaniard, so both Vallejo and AK are very easy to procure), if anything, Pro Acryl seems to be a little less known, but that's it. The other comment is kinda convincing me to go with contrasts, so I may go with Vallejo Xpress, but would like to find out if AK also has a contrast line.

The skin on this guy is citadel green contrast over a pale yellow zenithal.

That does look pretty good (also, damn I love Grot Tanks).

Citadel Colour has some solid options for Orks and obviously GW uses them to paint everything on their website so you can have a look there,
orks have a nice easy scheme too, you just need a green for the skin and some paints for details.
From my experience, i had some nice results painting orks with Waaagh! Flesh, Warboss Green and Biel-Tan Green for a shade (all from Citadel).
I suggest you prime your miniatures first with Chaos Black spray, the results are more conistent with a primer in place.