Green OR Brown ,That is the Question ?

[LawnRanger]

Hi Lads
   SHould Orcs be green or Brown  ? many years ago it was the norm for them to be Brown But since GW (the Dark Empire ) has turned them all green is it some sort of dark magic they use on there figures to keep them green ?
     I painted up a 15mm Orc army a few years back ( 10+years ) in the green skin mode ,but now i have seen the true light and started to paint my new units in a Dark Brown and i and happy with the out come will try and put a pic on here some time when i can work it out .

so it looks like i am turning full circle with my painting ..
happy gaming LR
               

[Lowtardog]

I Prefer Brown and paint mine that colour, from the early days of Citadel pre slotta orc and goblin army

[majorsmith]

i think a mix is nice, green to browny green to brown 

[guitarheroandy]

My LOTR Orcs have grey flesh. This is because they were described by Tolkien in the Silmarillion as being black skinned, but doing them black looked silly!!

If I had to choose between green and brown, I'd choose brown though, unless I could find a really dirty greenish-grey...

[Imp522]

I like them blueish


But really paint them the color that's going to make you happy.

[FramFramson]

A really dingy, dirty, dark green that's almost a brown. Bright green is ridiculous.

[dijit]

I did green, but have now gone to brown/khaki due to a change in the fluff of the world I play in where orcs, elves and humans all share a common ancestor so are able to interbreed in the same way as tigers and lions. So 'human flesh' coloured but slightly off is what I went for.

[rob_the_robgoblin]

Green for GW games, Buff for anything else!

[Damien]

Hello LawnRanger, I am going to agree with Rob here (though Imp has a really impressive blue horde), I like green for GW and brown for all other gobbos. Here is my Metal Magic Goblin that I painted with a green/brown paint:







I love this paint btw, it is very rich in colour. Let us know what you do, better yet post some pics even if they are WIP.

Damien

[Quendil]

Grey for me. But I often paint the GW ones green and the LOTR GW ones all sort of colours.

[Blue in vt]

Uh...green!  Duh!



Blue

[Christian]

I am a fan of green, but hadn't really considered anything else to be honest Recently I painted an orc and sgtarted with green, the did a watered down wash of Scaly Green (which is more like aqua) just to make it interesting. I like the colour of Damien's orc though... hmm, what a quandary!

[Vermis]

I have a couple of old shots of WIPs...



Bad Moon test orks, trying to steer away from the brighter, saturated greens that GW normally uses.  I think there's some of the VMC green brown that Damien likes (ditto) in the left one.



Heresy goblins, red and greyish.  Like a few here I wanted to try non-GW colour schemes on non-GW minis.  IIRC the reds are based on dulled, dusky reds and pinks from Anita's and Ral Partha's ranges.  The grey is based with Citadel ghoul grey.  This was already long OOP before I discovered gaming (GW had already moved onto the bolter-shell hex pots) and found a pot of it in an old model shop.  It's a bootiful yellowish-brownish grey, but I'm too sparing with it because I don't have a match (maybe Reaper's ghoul skin?) and don't want to use it up too soon!  But anyway...

[Elbows]

I actually would like to paint my ashen-grey given the choice...in fact maybe I will! 

[The Gray Ghost]

I really don't care for the GW green color for orcs