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I'm going to spart painting up my grots and a batch of boyz soon, and I was wondering whether people prefer to paint their grots with a very similar or as close as possible to the same skin tone as they do with their full-size orks, or whether they paint them with a different skin tone? What have you gotten good results out of?

I usually paint mine a tone lighter. In my brain Orks darken as they age.

I usually go for brighter or darker. Depending on the orks and goblins

I figured my savage orks who where always in the sun would be lighter due to the little guys hiding out.

If they are say black orks then again lighter.

If they are a more nothren culture thicker skin so the little guys would be darker. Like Inuits? The ones who live in nothren Canada? The native Americans who live in the snow areas year round. Not sure if it is true but I heard their skin tends to be rougher and thicker better for the snow. At least that's what the Sherpas said from Nepal.

Or if you go with like forest goblins I say forget what e ork look like paint the goblins to blend into trees.

So I say go with what makes sense to you. And I always thought orks in whfb atleast had a culture and you usually could peg the, from where they lived. Since whfb map kinda looks like our globe lol. Thin skin sun lovers dark skin, thick skin more dark lovers lighter colours help attract or repel heat and all that. Or frost dwellers kind of a mix more fitting with the Terran.

Or you can do what I did in whfb end times. Some where dark some where light and everything in between. I even painted a bunch brownish and placed them all on boars to give credit to the Mongols.

Groo_The_Wanderer wrote:
I usually paint mine a tone lighter. In my brain Orks darken as they age.

This sticks in my mind as well. Not sure if it’s a reference to old edition of WHFB where “Black Orks” were the biggest, meanest, greenskins around.

But I’ve always thought that the little guys should be light green, and the big uns the darker shades.

 Nevelon wrote:

Groo_The_Wanderer wrote:
I usually paint mine a tone lighter. In my brain Orks darken as they age.

This sticks in my mind as well. Not sure if it’s a reference to old edition of WHFB where “Black Orks” were the biggest, meanest, greenskins around.

But I’ve always thought that the little guys should be light green, and the big uns the darker shades.

Black orks are a cross breed made by the chaos dwarfs. They are not real orks lol jk love them but the dwarfs really did make them. And the head hunter wolfing or something forget his name set them free. When he went for a chaos dwarf head and used them as a distraction..

Groo_The_Wanderer wrote:
I usually paint mine a tone lighter. In my brain Orks darken as they age.

The darkening as they age thing is in the fluff somewhere, or at least used to be.

So I paint Nobs a little darker than Boyz, and Bosses and other old-timers darker again.

Grots are a separate (but related) species, rather than just little Orks, but painting them a little paler still feels right.

I like grots to look a little more yellow (still green, but yellow-ish), compared to orks. That way, the orks look proppa' green and the grots look weedy.

same here: grots got a tick yellow, they darken as they age.