My Ork skin formula

I am sharing my ork skn paint formula. I personally don't like bright green skin on my orks or orcs, so I try and paint them a little darker and a little less green. How do I make green, less green. It's sile, I mix in some brown.

Painting the Ork skin 1. Undercoat black. 2. Mix Flat Earth (VMC)  and Scorpion Green (GW), at about a 4:1 ratio, and paint 2-3 thin layers. 3. Mix some Filthy Brown (VMC) into the above mix, and paint the raised areas if the Ork skin, like the muscles in the arms. 4. Add a small amount of White to the mix, and lightly over-brush the skin. 5. Apply a few wash layers of Devlan Mud and Badab Black, to the skin area. 6. Finally lightly drybrush some Foundation Knarloc Green (GW) over the skin, and your done.

Thor Modelling Studio

 Thor Modelling Studio

This blog was recommended to me by a fellow wargame painter/modeller, so I went over and had a look. It isis a really great  site. This guy has a lot of modelling talent, and has produced a good amount of tutorials, which are quite useful to any wargamer. Go over and have a look.

The blog is written in Thai, and I had Google translate it for me, but it does translate very badly. If you can get past the bad english translation, then this blog is certainly work a look. I am going back there now, for another good look around.

Enjoy.

Empire - Cannon

Here is the description of how I painted it.

Painting the Cannon The first thing to do, is undercoat the whole thing black. Cannon Barrel: 1. Mix Glorious Gold (VGC) with Bolt Gun Metal (GW) - about a 50/50 mix, maybe a touch more gold than gun metal 2. paint the whole barrel, but no other metal parts 3. Once dry I washed the whole barrell with Devlan Mub (GW), concentrating in the barrells "ridges". 4. Once this is dry I did several washes of Babab Black (GW) over the front of the barrell Wood: 1. I painted many thin layers of Flesh (Derivan) mixed with Gunstock Brown (Derivan) about a 50-50 mix. This included the wheels and as well as the Cannon Frame. 2. Once this was dry, I painted a few very THIN (Highly diluted) layers of the above mixture of Flesh and Gunstock Brown but I also added some Burnt Brown (Derivan) and thinned this down quite a bit. 4. A final wash of Burnt Brown (Dervian) with Chaos Black (GW) about 80-20 mix was washed into the recesses. 5. The edges were then highlighted with Flesh (Derivan) Metal: 1. Painted all the metal parts, except the barrell, with Bolt Gun Metal (GW) 2. Washed these metal parts with a watered down Chaos Black (GW) 3. Highlighted the metal parts with a mix of White (GW) mixed with Bolt Gun Metal (GW) 40-60 mix. I like this better than using Mitheral Sivler (or any other bright silver colour), as I wanted a highlight, but not one that was bright.

Hopefully all this made sense. As regards to finding the equivalent colours for the Derivan paints, you can use this Paint Comparison Chart.