The ork skin has settled to this format with me;
Dry brushing the metal areas, which at the moment starts with a Tin Bitz: Brazen Brass: Gunmetal Silver mix, keeping it fairly dark (I will highlight with silver later).
Orkhide Shade as the base, building up to highlights with Orkhide: Knarloc Green as the main skin; lightening it upwards with additions of Gretchin Green etc.
Pretty roughly in most cases, I admit.
But with hordes, it does get very tiring, very quickly.
For the Bosses I usually stop at the second gragual highlight (to leave them darker overall). Where the grots are concerned, I usually just start from Knarloc and cover them with light tones.
This is not as labour intensive as it sounds. Using an overbrushing technique (like drybrushing, but don't overload the brush and drag across the area with the flat of the bristles), lifting the pressure with each coat and selecting the prominent areas to catch.
The next Phase is nice and simple; a 1:1:1 mix of water, Asurmen Blue, Yellow ink. Washed over the skin areas it gives a varied green tone (hue) that also does a good job of blending the highlights.
This does give a general yellowy tone that I like. Thanks go out to the person who converted me over to this. Previously I would just do a light drybrush and let the Matt Varnish spray blend it.
As you see, I didn't stick to just the Stormboyz, I cleared another couple of things in line.
There we have that stage complete;
Now for the really fiddly bits, faces, clothing, basing etc.
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