Ork skin (and paints)

[Kierdale]

What paints do you use for Ork skin?

 

I ask as a recent WarhammerOfficial Instagram post showed four ‘Battle-ready’ (i.e. easy and quick) paint schemes for clans (all but Snakebites and Badmoons but they may be done in the future apparently) and some used Waaargh Flesh (of course), others used Deathworld Forest and another used Deathguard Green.

 

What do you favour?

 

I’m keen to use one green for my Badmoons and a different one for my Snakebites. Likely Deathguard Green for the Snakebites as it’s available in a rattlecan (and Savage Orc models have a lot of skin :D). Then perhaps something darker for the Moons, to contrast with the Snakes and with their own yellow.

[toaae]

I consider myself a decent painter, but I suck at picking colors, so everything I do is copied from someone's videos. My recent Blood Angels are all based on WHTV videos, and my orks all come from

He doesn't make videos anymore, but I still have all his tutorials bookmarked so I can reference them as needed, to touch up when I haven't painted in a while.

He made his videos with the old colors, but they are now Caliban Green, Warpstone Glow and Warboss Green, with an all-over Agrax Earthshade wash.

[apologist]

I wrote an article on painting ork skin here, but the gist of it was to use a variety of greens for your orks, just as you’d use a variety of skin tones on human models. There’s a step-by-step example with the paints listed in the blogpost, if it’s helpful.

[Warhead01]

I've been painting Ork skin the same way for years more or less. Dark green, lighter green and lighter lighter green. I use left over old GW paint, Snot green over a Dark angels green or a craft pain that is close in color to that.  two colors is usually enough some times I add one more layer very lightly. I can't recall the lightest green.  For my Savage orcs I use the same concept but all craft paints. and they have turn out fantastic, although I do blend my greens more than strictly layer on my AoS Bonesplitterz. 
I doubt that was very helpful. 

[toaae]

I've been painting Ork skin the same way for years more or less. Dark green, lighter green and lighter lighter green. I use left over old GW paint, Snot green over a Dark angels green or a craft pain that is close in color to that.  two colors is usually enough some times I add one more layer very lightly. I can't recall the lightest green. 

 

Probably Goblin Green. When translated to the new paints, thats the same I use and said above. Good minds paint alike.

[Jam Master Flex]

I use pretty much the same mix as on the Citadel app for ironjawz, Deathworld Forest base, athonian camoshade for the recesses, then elysian green and ogryn camo highlights, sometimes mixing the stages in-between.

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/bDj0rts.jpg

[Smoke Frog]

I had to go check the names, but I have been using these:

 

1) Caliban Green (old Dark Angels green) for a base

 

2) Warboss Green (old Goblin green) for the main color

 

3) a quick wash of Biel Ten Green (a green wash) for some detail on the skin.

 

If you want you can go back and do extra Warboss Green highlights too.

[Tallarn Commander]

Last month I painted uo my first 6 batch of orks. I tried out various paint schemes and planned on choosing one. The good news is I liked how they all looked. The bad news is that I'm still undecided.

 

Here are the paint recipes I used:

 

Formula 1

-Basecoat: Warboss Green DONE

-Wash: Bieltan Green  DONE

-Highlight: Warboss Green DONE

-Highlight: Elysian Green DONE

-Glaze with Bieltan again DONE

Suggested by Civsmitty on B&S

Test Subject: "Buzzsaw," ork with a chainsaw

[MY SISTER REALLY LIKED THIS ONE.]

 

Formula 2

-Base: Waaagh! Flesh. DONE

-Layer: Warboss Green DONE

-Wash: Biel-Tan Green DONE

-Layer: Warboss Green again DONE

-Layer: 50/50 Warboss Green/Moot Green

-Highlight: Moot Green

-Glaze with Biel-Tan

Test Subject: "Ivan," ork w grenade

 

Formula 3

-Basecoat Waaagh! Flesh DONE

-Wash Bieltan Green DONE

-1st Highlight Warboss Green DONE

-2nd highlight Moot Green DONE

-Waywatcher Green Glaze DONE

This would be a sort of green yellow look. For a more subdued look, use Warboss Green as your 1st highlight layer.

Test Subject: "Grok," ork w cleaver

[MY FAVORITE GREEN RECIPE SO FAR. IT HAS PLEASING CONTRAST. PAINT MY NEXT BATCH OF 6 BOYZ WITH THIS RECIPE.]

 

Formula 4

-Basecoat: Loren Forest DONE

-Wash: Bieltan Green DONE

-Highlight: Straken Green DONE

-2nd highlight: bone and Straken DONE

-Glaze: Bieltan again DONE

This is a darker, paler look

Test Subject: "Fingers"

[MY 2ND FAVORITE RECIPE. PAINT 1 BATCH WITH THIS RECIPE.]

 

Formula 5

-Basecoat: Waaagh Flesh DONE

-Wash: Bieltan Green DONE

-Highlight: Waagh Flesh DONE

-2nd Highlight: Warboss Green DONE

-3rd Highlight: Skarsnick Green DONE

-Glaze: Waywatcher Green Glaze DONE

This is the GW paint app's suggested recipe.

Test Subject: "Piotr," shoota boy

[i REALLY LIKED THE CONTRAST ON THIS ONE.]

[toaae]

Good! Orks probably should have various skin tones. Building up different sets will help diversify your orks.

I've got multiple pants colors, shirt colors (but still Evil Sunz), and helmets to help break up mine. I should do more skin colors.

[Kierdale]

Thanks for the many ideas!

 

What do you think about contrast between skin and clothing? As I said I might do my Snakebites Deathguard Green as it will fit their their earthy tones, and Badmoons with Caliban Greenskin to contrast with the yellow...

[Brother Casman]

Well, I don't remember exactly all the greens I used on my boyz, partly because you can't get some of them any more, but I generally went with a gradual darker skin for bigger/older Orks.

 

I do know the recipe I'm using for my Ironjawz (shhh... ), it's Caliban Green layered with Warpstone Glow (I paint to a tabletop standard). It contrasts nicely with the dark blue and dirty yellow armour they have.

[Warhead01]

I've tried to dirty up my skin colors a little before and have tried lightly washing on brown paint over the green skin.  I'm still looking for the right shade to complement the greens. I was thinking about trying an oil wash, has any one of you done that before?

[Magos Takatus]

I tend to use Athonian Camoshade if I want slightly less saturated Ork skin. I tend to paint most of my Orks using the same technique but I add a wash of either Thraka/Biel Tan green, Athonian Camoshade or Agrax Earthshade. it keeps the skin fairly consistent but it varies the tones slightly. I haven't ventured into the realms of oil shading though.