I got 750 Point worth of orcs, painted with this technique (but I used a yellow mixed with devlan mud and a blue wash as the main coloursceme ) . I must say they look wonderfull! the more models I paint the better the looks of the whole army gets! a great tutorial and so incredibly easy. You dont have to be a good painter for it, you just need the stamina to get going and the end result will be so rewarding.
It's been a while since I stopped collecting 40k but the videos keep popping up in my feed and I can't help but watch them every so often. I've learned a huge amount from this video alone, I always tended to stick with just using the base paints to colour my models. I never realised it was so easy to make them look so good! Fantastic job, you're a brilliant painter.
This is great for anyone who struggles with time or if you're like me and are now overwhelmed with a grey horde. My only issue was how flat the black looked on the clothes. But I found an easy fix in a light drybrush of dark grey (Adeptus Battlegrey) over the black clothing. Adds that extra highlight I think it needed. With this technique I can now paint a squad (12 models) in an afternoon to a good tabletop quality.
This is so neat! I'm brand new to the hobby and quite intimidated about painting up my new vampire horde, but this has a lot of character and seems so easy- thanks a bunch!
Dylan Smart “It doesn't matter how fast you go, as long as you do not stop” (... according to Confucius ... who probably didn't have a drawer-of-shame but I think the sentiment is encouraging)
don't care for what the others say, I like this style - gritty, dark, just like the universe of 40K should be. Sometimes I find all those models painted too nice :p
Just started trying this out with on a few minatures, the results are great, best of all is how forgiving the technique is. I also love how the final wash blends all the different areas together giving the model a consistant tone.
i'm just now getting onto this hobby and i had gotten a cheap unit of Ork Boyz to work on. I already have my "Mulligan" Ork so i'm glad i ran into this video.
Nice! Very nice! Well done mate. I also find, following your lead, that the initial dark wash allows me to see the mini clearly, understand what is what, and , cos I’m an old fart, this makes SO much difference, makes it all achievable. I really resonate with the grim dark style too, adds to the theatrical look of the whole hobby.
Planning on getting into warhammer when i get some free money, the one thing i was worried about was the painting, and this made me feel a lot more confident! thanks man!
I have to say I really, really like this tutorial. I have around 80 orks that need painting up, but they are not an army I actually collect. This should getting them looking good enough to game with at least.
Great one ! I will share this to my son he is 14 and likes nice miniatures too. He will be able to get a nice army with long time fun. I use the same technique for Zombicide Zombies. Thanks for making this!
Definitely going to have to try this. I've always hated the GW painted stuff because even though they look great, I never understood why everything (especially Orks and Chaos) looked so pristine and shinny. This gives a more dirty/battered/sun bleached appearance which I much prefer.
LOVE the sense of humor in the captions, super funny "41 millenium cave art" and "looks like the Orc painted it", I can picture him sitting and taking the time to be artsy before battle, hahaha!!!
Awesome! I just painted up a squad of boyz using this guide. Turned out great. the only thing i did different was during stage 5 (The red Detail stage) i added in some additional details. Great Guide! Thanks!
I did a few of these guys and tried some things out and found that I personally like using the last wash (after its all done) with light coating of the badab black really makes things pop out
I am buying Thraka soon and this tutorial helped a lot. Thraka will be my first object to paint ever and probably a great challenge. But i am a perfectionist so it will have to take the time it takes. I will most likely do a LOT of research before even starting to make it look awesome.
thank you very much for this great video.this is exactly what i searched for.simple and looks great.i have already the tyranids.and they all gwashed.they look solid.
Amazing video Thoume. I just wanted to thank you for this technique. I've used it on over 100 boyz and it works like a charm. Quick, painless, and easy. My only problem is that sometimes after adding the last wash of devlan over the whole figure, the skin becomes a bit too dark. I try to lighten up on my application of mud and things are awesome. Keep up the good work
Excellent video. I've been using washes to paint Skaven for quite some time. The new washes are great but if you can get your hands on some Citadel paint from the 90s you'll find that they work excellently as an acryllic wash. I prefer using acyrillic washes with a touch of dish soap because they don't have that plastic-y look some of the new washes have.
I am new the Warhammer 40k community. I have yet to buy my army, but I believe have careful thought that I am going to go Ork. I love the craziness about them. I have been thinking about how to paint them, and I knew that I did not want to go the conventional route b/c its always done and it boring to me. Your wash meathod is the perfect thing that I had in mind. In fact, when I think of orcs I see something like this with lighter shades of green. It just looks more realistic to me.
The result is quite good considering the time spent. Actually the model helps a lot with this "dirty" method. I mean, It's ok for a 40K ork but I'm not sure it could be applicable to an other mini. Personnaly I would spend an other 10mn to make some highlights on skin and clothes before the final wash. By the way, very well done tutorial, very clear and pleasant to watch. Thanks you.
Thanks for the tutorial. A couple of things: - the army as a whole looks 'washed out', bleached. I think that's because the green isn't green enough. Try it again with a mix of goblin green and thraka green. - for the goff checkered pattern, you did right by starting with the white, but get a brush dedicated just for that job and trim the end off so it is square. Then you can just drag the black paint across and make a consistent pattern.
Thanks for this mate, it's brilliant! I'm gonna loosely do my orks like this, I suppose most of the skill involved is understanding how different paints e.t.c will turn out. Thanks again!
Great vid ! after trying this method personally i can say you are awesome and thanks for the tips, it certainly makes me want to paint the rest of my orks now as its so easy to do XD
I actually do paint separatly and then glue them, and I just did with the blue scribes, because there is too much details, once painted, its hard to glue like it, so i rip off some of the paint with a sharp small knife, the other way i used with my terminator, was to glue one part and paint it, and then glue the next one, and just paint part that won't be accessible before you glue them! :)
Woww.. I knew you could paint a model completely with inks, but I didn't know what it would look like.. Very awesome.. well done! This method/ theory blows my mind!! I will try it some time! : 0
@thoume2 Many thanks for the feedback, ive been experimenting with an old bottle of red Parker "Quink" ink on a few old space marine banners, results were a lot like valejo red wash, neat from the bottle seemed to work best but 50/50 with rubbing alc worked quite well.
@lukekennedy1001 Drybrush is when you use a fat thick brush and put a small amount of paint on it that paint becomes a little dry and when roughly brushed on comes out on an even shaded look
woot finaly go all my paints in and doing my first ork! doing just one for now to get a feel (test model i supose). unfortunately its really cold outside some im priming with gesso (first time ever using it ), and i think i thined it too much cause it flaked some during the first devlan mud wash...oh well. drying so hopefully eveyrhting else will could out smoothly
Its a technique where you use a non-pointed brush with most of the paint wiped off and just gently rub it against the raised areas and it creates highlights very easily.
I will say simply that quick model looks much better than my 45 minute painting ones do. Mainly because I use just acrylics, up until recently the idea of washes and drybushing and highlights never occured to me
gunna need to see if i can do somehting similar for my lychgaurd when they get here, ive found i hate trying to do layering, and drybrushing (cept when doing highlights, then i like drybrushing)
Brilliant, deffo trying this one out, just ordered some Nobz now know how iam gonna attack em!! Would you say you could use drawing/writing ink's to make wash's you mention Daler-rowney
Well the problem would be the skin, because a green wash onto black will still be black :P the reason white is used is because washes will then show up relatively easy. Many other ork painters use black as a base coat and im sure there are loads of videos for those as well :) its just a different technique, as with this he is basically just slowly shading up to the colours he wants.
interesting. You've used soooo many washes that I'd almost think just painting the fig would have taken less time LOL Looks good. A bit too light for my taste (I'd probably have to do the green wash 2 or 3 times) but the beautiful thing about orks... you can pain them anyway you want and nobody can say it's wrong :)
Hey I am new to painting I am wanting to do your paint style but I dont know how to paint it on an Ork Trukk can you do a video on how to paint an ork trukk with this paint style? if you did that would be really great
Thank you, so much, new to 40k, trying to get into more social games lately that involve getting off my butt :P I've decided to put tactics aside and choose a faction based on how awesome they look, and Orks, Space Marines and Tau all look pretty appealing, gunna depend on what they have down at the hobby shop. If you have an suggestions, i'd appreciate it. Also, are there specific instructions for how to paint what in the books? I had sum design ideas I wanted to throw in. Thanks, bye :)
Nice vid, will definately be giving that a go on my boyz... Seem to always have trouble getting the painting done when doing proper highlights and such. It's good on warbosses and nobz but on 30 boyz... not so much...
Hey great video, I really appreciate your work! I was wondering if you water down your washes at all? Especially the devlan mud, sometimes I find that the devlan mud covers too much of the paint. I particularly had problems with over-washing when GW changed their paints.
another good way to do the base is to before painting take 2 parts water and 1 part pva glue or elmers and dip the base in then take cat liter or sand and dip it in and tap it off then take about 5-6 parts water and 1 part glue and go back over the cat liter then tap it off it is very effective
great vid mate, im buying loads of orks soon from wayland games great people save loads , anyway will copy your idea and apply it to them, thanks for this vid. :)
Great video. I am a horribly long painter, and after years, only now gotten decent at it. It certainly gives me some good pointers on painting, but I play Iron Hands space marines. Do you have any videos or tips on painting them?
Hullo, I am trying this on an Ogre Kingdoms army, and I'm curious as to what ratio you would mix Chaos Black to Badab Black to mimic the Rowlers (sp?) ink consistency? Also, is mixing a base colour with a wash to create a different colour possible? For example Macharius Orange and Ogryn Flesh, for an Orangey-Brown?
Hello, I am using the same Lavis and i dont have the same result. for the green part the white apear alot. Same for devlan mud. Maybe i am not using the correct undercoat. shall i bomb everything ? or must I use only white citadel standard painting (brush method). thanks
Generally 40k painters will use skull white or chaos black spray-paint to do undercoats, as it is almost impossible to get a good undercoat with any white paint that isn't spray or airbrushed.
Man, you're incredibly skilled! Im going to paint my first Orks this weekend (my first Warhammer characters actually), and I don't even know if I dare to try this. Are you just making it look easy, or isn't it that tough? I have painted some plastic models when I where younger (planes and things like that) so I guess I have some experiance, even though it isn't much.
can anynoe give me any advice I am doing a Deathskulls army but the only problem is that I do not know what blue I should use for the warpaint , I was thinking of using the technique that thoume2 used on the red parts of its armour Please reply much appreciated
I got 750 Point worth of orcs, painted with this technique (but I used a yellow mixed with devlan mud and a blue wash as the main coloursceme ) . I must say they look wonderfull! the more models I paint the better the looks of the whole army gets! a great tutorial and so incredibly easy. You dont have to be a good painter for it, you just need the stamina to get going and the end result will be so rewarding.
It's been a while since I stopped collecting 40k but the videos keep popping up in my feed and I can't help but watch them every so often. I've learned a huge amount from this video alone, I always tended to stick with just using the base paints to colour my models. I never realised it was so easy to make them look so good!
Fantastic job, you're a brilliant painter.
There are now several videos of painting orks using washes, and this is still the best one.
Being a new painter I love this technique . The end result is very professional
This is great for anyone who struggles with time or if you're like me and are now overwhelmed with a grey horde.
My only issue was how flat the black looked on the clothes. But I found an easy fix in a light drybrush of dark grey (Adeptus Battlegrey) over the black clothing. Adds that extra highlight I think it needed.
With this technique I can now paint a squad (12 models) in an afternoon to a good tabletop quality.
This is so neat! I'm brand new to the hobby and quite intimidated about painting up my new vampire horde, but this has a lot of character and seems so easy- thanks a bunch!
Dylan Smart “It doesn't matter how fast you go, as long as you do not stop” (... according to Confucius ... who probably didn't have a drawer-of-shame but I think the sentiment is encouraging)
I always come back to this video for a refresher.
don't care for what the others say, I like this style - gritty, dark, just like the universe of 40K should be. Sometimes I find all those models painted too nice :p
Just started trying this out with on a few minatures, the results are great, best of all is how forgiving the technique is. I also love how the final wash blends all the different areas together giving the model a consistant tone.
i'm just now getting onto this hobby and i had gotten a cheap unit of Ork Boyz to work on. I already have my
"Mulligan" Ork so i'm glad i ran into this video.
Nice! Very nice! Well done mate. I also find, following your lead, that the initial dark wash allows me to see the mini clearly, understand what is what, and , cos I’m an old fart, this makes SO much difference, makes it all achievable. I really resonate with the grim dark style too, adds to the theatrical look of the whole hobby.
Planning on getting into warhammer when i get some free money, the one thing i was worried about was the painting, and this made me feel a lot more confident! thanks man!
Even though I don't play orks myself, I found this to be a great and most handy tutorial. Thanks for posting it!
Very nice ork painting, is a different way of painting with mainly washes. Thanks for sharing.
Fast , easy and looks great! Congratz to you sir , that's a hell of a way to paint an ork horde!
I have to say I really, really like this tutorial. I have around 80 orks that need painting up, but they are not an army I actually collect. This should getting them looking good enough to game with at least.
That's an awesome first video! great work on the model, love the method and love the quality of the video.
I just wanted to say that I just tried this method and IT ROCKS!!!
Great one ! I will share this to my son he is 14 and likes nice miniatures too. He will be able to get a nice army with long time fun. I use the same technique for Zombicide Zombies. Thanks for making this!
Definitely going to have to try this. I've always hated the GW painted stuff because even though they look great, I never understood why everything (especially Orks and Chaos) looked so pristine and shinny. This gives a more dirty/battered/sun bleached appearance which I much prefer.
LOVE the sense of humor in the captions, super funny "41 millenium cave art" and "looks like the Orc painted it", I can picture him sitting and taking the time to be artsy before battle, hahaha!!!
Awesome! I just painted up a squad of boyz using this guide. Turned out great.
the only thing i did different was during stage 5 (The red Detail stage) i added in some additional details.
Great Guide! Thanks!
I did a few of these guys and tried some things out and found that I personally like using the last wash (after its all done) with light coating of the badab black
really makes things pop out
Looks great would have never thought to do the whole model in washes but as you said if you believe it works....it works.
DOW 2 Ork music is so good with this video. The ork is great too! I'm going to use this method for my Age of Sigmar Orks.
I am buying Thraka soon and this tutorial helped a lot. Thraka will be my first object to paint ever and probably a great challenge. But i am a perfectionist so it will have to take the time it takes. I will most likely do a LOT of research before even starting to make it look awesome.
I painted my first 12 boyz using this as a guideline and they turned out awesome! Thanks for this video
I really liked the checkered pattern and I like how you dis it freehand I tried it on a couply of my nobz and lootas they turned out really well
awesome job, i used to collect orks and the one downfall was how many i had to paint but i still may use some of these techniques, thanks.
thank you very much for this great video.this is exactly what i searched for.simple and looks great.i have already the tyranids.and they all gwashed.they look solid.
I always was thinking how you paint a model like that ? But you answered my question. Million thanks.
Amazing video Thoume. I just wanted to thank you for this technique. I've used it on over 100 boyz and it works like a charm. Quick, painless, and easy. My only problem is that sometimes after adding the last wash of devlan over the whole figure, the skin becomes a bit too dark. I try to lighten up on my application of mud and things are awesome. Keep up the good work
Excellent video. I've been using washes to paint Skaven for quite some time.
The new washes are great but if you can get your hands on some Citadel paint from the 90s you'll find that they work excellently as an acryllic wash. I prefer using acyrillic washes with a touch of dish soap because they don't have that plastic-y look some of the new washes have.
I am new the Warhammer 40k community. I have yet to buy my army, but I believe have careful thought that I am going to go Ork. I love the craziness about them. I have been thinking about how to paint them, and I knew that I did not want to go the conventional route b/c its always done and it boring to me.
Your wash meathod is the perfect thing that I had in mind. In fact, when I think of orcs I see something like this with lighter shades of green. It just looks more realistic to me.
The result is quite good considering the time spent. Actually the model helps a lot with this "dirty" method. I mean, It's ok for a 40K ork but I'm not sure it could be applicable to an other mini. Personnaly I would spend an other 10mn to make some highlights on skin and clothes before the final wash.
By the way, very well done tutorial, very clear and pleasant to watch. Thanks you.
Thanks for the tutorial. A couple of things:
- the army as a whole looks 'washed out', bleached. I think that's because the green isn't green enough. Try it again with a mix of goblin green and thraka green.
- for the goff checkered pattern, you did right by starting with the white, but get a brush dedicated just for that job and trim the end off so it is square. Then you can just drag the black paint across and make a consistent pattern.
Thanks for this mate, it's brilliant! I'm gonna loosely do my orks like this, I suppose most of the skill involved is understanding how different paints e.t.c will turn out. Thanks again!
Real nice technique. Ill certainly incorporate some of your ideas into my style. Off to my local outlet for a few washes I think.
"The Unpainted Horde" stuck out to me at the start of this video...
Great tutorial, thanks!
Looks quick and fantastic. Damn I need to do this for my boyz
wow, you have basically re taught me how to paint, thank you so much. Great work.
Great vid ! after trying this method personally i can say you are awesome and thanks for the tips, it certainly makes me want to paint the rest of my orks now as its so easy to do XD
very nice paintjob, I like the grungy look one can achieve with mostly washes. :D
Amazing tutorial really cool effect
If you spend a little more time you can dry brush vermin brown and blood red on metal parts to give it a rust effect
I actually do paint separatly and then glue them, and I just did with the blue scribes, because there is too much details, once painted, its hard to glue like it, so i rip off some of the paint with a sharp small knife,
the other way i used with my terminator, was to glue one part and paint it, and then glue the next one, and just paint part that won't be accessible before you glue them! :)
Really good intro to preshading!
Woww.. I knew you could paint a model completely with inks, but I didn't know what it would look like.. Very awesome.. well done! This method/ theory blows my mind!! I will try it some time! : 0
@thoume2 Many thanks for the feedback, ive been experimenting with an old bottle of red Parker "Quink" ink on a few old space marine banners, results were a lot like valejo red wash, neat from the bottle seemed to work best but 50/50 with rubbing alc worked quite well.
Ooh this looks nice. I'm gonna try this
nice method :) will try it out on the new horde i plan on purchasing
@lukekennedy1001
Drybrush is when you use a fat thick brush and put a small amount of paint on it that paint becomes a little dry and when roughly brushed on comes out on an even shaded look
great vid! I think this is how I will paint my lil orksies I have around. they arent my main army but this should still be fun...
This tutorial, helped me a lot.
Thank you
woot finaly go all my paints in and doing my first ork! doing just one for now to get a feel (test model i supose). unfortunately its really cold outside some im priming with gesso (first time ever using it ), and i think i thined it too much cause it flaked some during the first devlan mud wash...oh well. drying so hopefully eveyrhting else will could out smoothly
Either I missed it, or you didn't cover how to paint brown belts at all. You just left them white with devlan mud accents.
Its a technique where you use a non-pointed brush with most of the paint wiped off and just gently rub it against the raised areas and it creates highlights very easily.
so cool it looks
Really like the style bud!
I will say simply that quick model looks much better than my 45 minute painting ones do. Mainly because I use just acrylics, up until recently the idea of washes and drybushing and highlights never occured to me
awesome!!!!!!! loved these when i was younger!
Never thought of doing mainly washes & shades as my basis for all the painting... I have always liked the washes & shades better than the paints...
this would be great for a production line of boys great job mate!
cant wait to see some more!!
Could I use Army Painter Skeleton Bone as the primer for this method?
lol i just asked this 4 years later still no reply! did you preshade after the bone?
Amazing Work!
really well produced, going to check your channel for more :)
gunna need to see if i can do somehting similar for my lychgaurd when they get here, ive found i hate trying to do layering, and drybrushing (cept when doing highlights, then i like drybrushing)
Great tutorial!
Brilliant, deffo trying this one out, just ordered some Nobz now know how iam gonna attack em!! Would you say you could use drawing/writing ink's to make wash's you mention Daler-rowney
I think you should do your bullets shining gold. Cuz it looks awesome :D
Well the problem would be the skin, because a green wash onto black will still be black :P the reason white is used is because washes will then show up relatively easy. Many other ork painters use black as a base coat and im sure there are loads of videos for those as well :) its just a different technique, as with this he is basically just slowly shading up to the colours he wants.
This is Awesome Mate!
interesting. You've used soooo many washes that I'd almost think just painting the fig would have taken less time LOL
Looks good. A bit too light for my taste (I'd probably have to do the green wash 2 or 3 times) but the beautiful thing about orks... you can pain them anyway you want and nobody can say it's wrong :)
Hey I am new to painting I am wanting to do your paint style but I dont know how to paint it on an Ork Trukk can you do a video on how to paint an ork trukk with this paint style? if you did that would be really great
Thank you, so much, new to 40k, trying to get into more social games lately that involve getting off my butt :P I've decided to put tactics aside and choose a faction based on how awesome they look, and Orks, Space Marines and Tau all look pretty appealing, gunna depend on what they have down at the hobby shop. If you have an suggestions, i'd appreciate it. Also, are there specific instructions for how to paint what in the books? I had sum design ideas I wanted to throw in. Thanks, bye :)
Could you do a quick highlight of the muscles with something like snot green and dark angels before doing the last mud ink to unify the model?
Could try a light drybrush of something maybe? Not sure what colour though. If you find one that looks decent let me know.
try using bleached bone or the equivalent very thin and watered down on the highest points for the last highlight
Nice vid, will definately be giving that a go on my boyz... Seem to always have trouble getting the painting done when doing proper highlights and such. It's good on warbosses and nobz but on 30 boyz... not so much...
Hey great video, I really appreciate your work! I was wondering if you water down your washes at all? Especially the devlan mud, sometimes I find that the devlan mud covers too much of the paint. I particularly had problems with over-washing when GW changed their paints.
another good way to do the base is to before painting take 2 parts water and 1 part pva glue or elmers and dip the base in then take cat liter or sand and dip it in and tap it off then take about 5-6 parts water and 1 part glue and go back over the cat liter then tap it off it is very effective
great vid mate, im buying loads of orks soon from wayland games great people save loads , anyway will copy your idea and apply it to them, thanks for this vid. :)
cool! i am getting the set assualt on black reach
can i paint with waaagh! flesh ?
This is awesome!
How would you paint the blue skin on a deff skull ork?
Could you do a tutorial for a couple of vehicles like a Trukk and Battlewagon please? :)
Great video. I am a horribly long painter, and after years, only now gotten decent at it. It certainly gives me some good pointers on painting, but I play Iron Hands space marines. Do you have any videos or tips on painting them?
great way to do a tutorial dude props
After I saw this, I have painted my green tide:)
Thanks a lot!!!
Hullo, I am trying this on an Ogre Kingdoms army, and I'm curious as to what ratio you would mix Chaos Black to Badab Black to mimic the Rowlers (sp?) ink consistency? Also, is mixing a base colour with a wash to create a different colour possible? For example Macharius Orange and Ogryn Flesh, for an Orangey-Brown?
Awesome job
Hello,
I am using the same Lavis and i dont have the same result. for the green part the white apear alot. Same for devlan mud. Maybe i am not using the correct undercoat. shall i bomb everything ? or must I use only white citadel standard painting (brush method).
thanks
Great Tutorial, but I like to make my orks a tad bit greener, any ideas i could incorporate into your method to accomplish this?
Generally 40k painters will use skull white or chaos black spray-paint to do undercoats, as it is almost impossible to get a good undercoat with any white paint that isn't spray or airbrushed.
Man, you're incredibly skilled! Im going to paint my first Orks this weekend (my first Warhammer characters actually), and I don't even know if I dare to try this. Are you just making it look easy, or isn't it that tough? I have painted some plastic models when I where younger (planes and things like that) so I guess I have some experiance, even though it isn't much.
Any suggestions for an alternative wash to use for a more red (speed freaks) armour colour?
im not sure if you can find these colors anymore, they were citadel colors/washes from thier last set, they switched to diffrent schemes i think
You are amazing at painting :D keep it up
can anynoe give me any advice I am doing a Deathskulls army but the only problem is that I do not know what blue I should use for the warpaint , I was thinking of using the technique that thoume2 used on the red parts of its armour
Please reply much appreciated
is it alot difrent if i use black undercoat, a friend just gave me black a while ago and i want to start painting my orks so i can play cool :D