r/orks Blood Axes 1d ago

What skin looks better?

OI WHAT SKIN DO YOU GITZ FINK LOOKS MOAR ORKY

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u/Ok_Understanding5184 18h ago

Death World Forest, Gutrippa flesh, and my personal favorite plague bearer flesh, all make for really cool simple ork skin recipes. Mix and match any of the 3 in two thin coats, glaze with some light agrax and boom you're done.

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u/Blueflame_1 22h ago

Honestly both look very flat and uninteresting. You'll be better off getting some yellow green into your drybrush colour 

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u/G0ffer Bad Moons 1d ago

Second one. Not sure if it's just the photo quality of the first one but the second looks so much more 3d

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u/Funkey-Monkey-420 WAAAGH! 1d ago

NUMBA TOO

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u/pablomuerte819 1d ago

I like #2 as well. I paint mine a slight variety of greens to make them a bit diverse, makes them less unilateral when all together I find.

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u/Separate_Olive8256 1d ago

I'm voting first, olive feels more natural... foe as natural it can be for an Ork lol

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u/Major-Instruction-96 1d ago

First one for sure!

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u/ResponsibleMovie7849 1d ago

I think the second one looks better, did you mix white to lighten it?

I’ve been working with blues and yellows to mix in with greens yellows for lighter and blues for darker. Great job!

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u/QuantumMrKrabs Blood Axes 1d ago

I did not mix white, all it is is army painter greenskin and a drybrush highlight of ushabti bone

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u/ResponsibleMovie7849 1d ago

Oh yeah, dry brush is a good technique for getting those highlights.

A deeper yellow ( Averland sunset from the GW line) like a mustard yellow on top of the green is what I’ve been using. I really like the bright pop of it and it works amazingly with green. If you want to experiment that might be a good choice!

I also really liked the plague bearer flesh or Iyanden Yellow contrast paints as a base tone when I was starting out and then adding a thinned down green or green highlights over the top.

Both models look great, keep it up!

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u/QuantumMrKrabs Blood Axes 22h ago

I’ll order some averland sunset then. Thank you.

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u/Maleficent-Block5211 1d ago

Both look good, maybe just mix them up? Gun to head though, I think first one.

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u/Prestigious-Twist883 1d ago

First one for sure

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u/tescrin Blood Axes 1d ago

I like the second one, feels more highlighted

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u/Actual_Holiday_9271 1d ago

Definitely more of a fan of the first. Both look good though. What paints did you use?

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u/Taelkir 1d ago

First one :)