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Hello dakka.
I'm wondering if anyone has an alternative ork skin tutorial which if more of a "lizardy" green, rather than a bright green.
Any suggestion or help will be much appreciated.

something like that?

trollapan wrote:


something like that?

Yes that's the colour

I've only recently found KujoPainting's YouTube channel, and he has a really nice Ork skin tutorial on there :






The rest of his painting tutorials are pretty darn good too!

We have a ork army on the side( for my son) give it a black base, then using a watered down mix of (scaly green)and black wash it once or twice, ( very diluted) when its dry start washing it with (goblin green) adding a bit of skull white, till youbget ro your green you like, use nuln oil in the crevices and then highlight with the g green again. If the transition is still hard, wash again and use less white.

Undercoat them black. Then give them a Waaagh Flesh basecoat over their entire skin. Then cover their skin with a nice diluted layer like perhaps Straken Green or Loren Forest. (You might need to layer it twice for a nice even coverage.) Then cover their skin with a 50/50 mix of Athonian Camoshade or Biel-Tan Green and Lahmian medium. Then work up the more raised bits with a thin layer of Straken Green or Loren Forest. Then give it a highlight with perhaps Nurgling Green.

Really look up the GW Ironjawz tutorial for ork skin. You can swap the layer and highlight paints for any greens and it'll work.
Cannot link the video now because I'm on my phone.

I've followed the tutorial myself to for my Ironjawz and they came out great. I only used Elysian green as the layer, so they are quite a bit brighter.

Edit: Here you go.

I use to follow the techniq shown by GW.
But there are several good Orkskin tuts out there.
To get a different skintone, I base em grey, followed by a yellow and then I put a layer of Biel-Tan Green
on it. So you get a yellowish-lightgreen tone.