Author Topic: "not too green" oldhammer orcs and gobs paint schemes ? (Read 4353 times)

sundayhero · « **on:** 17 November 2017, 06:35:17 PM »

Hi,

I've got a good amount of old GW (Marauder) orcs and gobelins, and a few trolls too. I'd like to base them for AoS, but keeping them as "oldhammer spirit" as possible, concerning painting job.

I don't want the "neon" bright green paint scheme GW orcs are usually painted with, so I'd like to ask for some advices for a more "classic fantasy" orc paint scheme.

THank you a lot !

Bloodsbane · « **Reply #1 on:** 17 November 2017, 06:57:51 PM »

In my experience, anything goes really

sundayhero · « **Reply #2 on:** 17 November 2017, 07:55:15 PM »

the one with the hook is interesting, I'm thinking of yellowish or brownish skin tone, actually. Any receipe ?

thanks

Bloodsbane · « **Reply #3 on:** 17 November 2017, 08:46:07 PM »

Been an age since I painted these. I want to say hook guy is Vallejo model color orange brown shaded with devlan mud and highlighted with a touch of pale sand or ivory in more of the orange brown.

Here are some more examples

Cubs · « **Reply #4 on:** 17 November 2017, 08:49:07 PM »

Nice. I do like the dark greyish/ivy green colour as well although I've yet to paint any of mine that colour.

sundayhero · « **Reply #5 on:** 18 November 2017, 02:37:12 PM »

Quote from: FKSN on 17 November 2017, 08:46:07 PM

Been an age since I painted these. I want to say hook guy is Vallejo model color orange brown shaded with devlan mud and highlighted with a touch of pale sand or ivory in more of the orange brown.

Here are some more examples

Thank you, I think I see how to do it with my own paints collection. I really like the skin tone on the 1st pic on first pic, and the 3rd and 4th figures on the second pic, that's what I 'm looking for.

WuZhuiQiu · « **Reply #6 on:** 18 November 2017, 07:21:38 PM »

Nice stonework, by the way!

Ethelred the Almost Ready · « **Reply #7 on:** 18 November 2017, 07:31:24 PM »

From memory, in the original D&D Monster Manual goblins (orcs at that time had pig faces and so don't fit these miniatures) were reddish in colour.
Tolkien is vague, but it seems they were anything from sallow (yellow/pale brown), through to swart (dark, but just how dark) and of course he mentions black uruks - although whether black by nature or truely black in colour is uncertain.

GW made orcs green.

For my one and only orc couldn't decide between green and more Tolkienish brown. I ended up going half way using (I think) a British Army green with a brown wash.

katie · « **Reply #8 on:** 19 November 2017, 10:50:11 AM »

I use Coat d'Arms 537 Faded Khaki as a base, Army Painter soft tone, then 225 Khaki and 225 Khaki + white.

They come out greeny-brown.

Supercollider · « **Reply #9 on:** 19 November 2017, 05:48:48 PM »

I did some BB gobbos with olive toned skin, I like the way they turned out.

StuRat · « **Reply #10 on:** 20 November 2017, 12:46:13 AM »

Orcs aren't green.

But they can't take the sunlight.

So one of the clever lads created an aloe based sun-sceen that gives them the greenish tint that has been exaggerated by artists ever since.

ZeroTwentythree · « **Reply #11 on:** 20 November 2017, 02:05:56 AM »

Ethelred the Almost Ready · « **Reply #12 on:** 20 November 2017, 05:11:47 AM »

Quote from: StuRat on 20 November 2017, 12:46:13 AM

Orcs aren't green.

But they can't take the sunlight.

So one of the clever lads created an aloe based sun-sceen that gives them the greenish tint that has been exaggerated by artists ever since.