How to paint orangutans?

[ErikB]

Does anyone have a recipe for painting orangutans?

I am thinking of two shades of orange with a burnt umber (delvan mud) wash, all over a white primer so the color is lighter.

Does anyone have any ideas for this?

I am trying to paint up Lucid Eye's Red Simians.  They're great figures but man, that orange color... I have no idea how to approach it!

[Cubs]

I went for a red leather mixed with orange tone.

[Sir_Theo]

Carefully!

Ba dum tish.

[ErikB]

Ha ha ha, that's funny.

What brands red and orange did you use?  That mini looks great!

And what about that gray skin?

[Cubs]

Ha ha ha, that's funny.

What brands red and orange did you use?  That mini looks great!

And what about that gray skin?

Pass, I blend my own colours, so who knows what brands went into them. But it was just a deep red-brown base, with drybrush highlights of red leather and orange in progressively lighter tones. the final drybrush highlight was a very subtle bit of bright yellow, just to pick out the fur texture. As for the grey skin … urm, just grey really.

[ragbones]

That’s a beautiful figure. Well done.

[Brandlin]

I think cubs has it spot on.

It's more of a russet/burnt orange colour than anything vibrant.

Unhelpfully I was going to suggest that you took a long look at how GW paint the hair on  dwarf slayers - and then utterly ignore it because it's crap.

[Andrew_McGuire]

I would have suggested sedating them first, but in effect that pointless joke has already been made. Shame, really.

[ErikB]

I would have suggested sedating them first, but in effect that pointless joke has already been made. Shame, really.

Still funny.  :-)

[Andrew_McGuire]

Thank you. I might also add  - with all due humility - that it comes closer to answering the question, which was for a recipe rather than technique, so my response is undoubtedly objectively superior, and consequently my earlier diffidence was quite unwarranted.