How to Paint Pale Orc Flesh

No-Nonsense Pale Orc Flesh Guide

Here’s how to paint grim dark pale orc flesh fast and effectively.

The Spit Effect Secret

If you want cool spit effects, it’s just UHU glue on the model. Dab it on with a toothpick. That easy.

The Recipe

1. Base coat: Pallid Wych Flesh all over
2. Pink areas: Mix Quick Shade Wash Medium with Bugman’s Glow 50/50. Put on mouth, hands, elbows—anywhere that would be pinker flesh
3. Streaking grime: Cover the whole model
4. Wipe away: Use a sponge and Q-tip to remove the grime. This is what turns the skin green
5. Mineral spirits: Come back on the very tops of muscles, teeth, and nails
6. Highlights: Menoth White (P3) on nails, teeth, and tops of muscles (especially shoulders)
7. Optional: Small wash of Carroburg Crimson on the Bugman’s Glow areas
8. Eyes: White dot for beady little eyes

Very Fast, Very Effective

This method is especially fast if you have an airbrush—just airbrush Pallid Wych Flesh and you’re basically done except for the streaking grime.

I made this guide while painting my Age of Sigmar orcs army-wide. Just took pictures so I wouldn’t forget what I was doing.

Extra Time on Faces

Spending just 20 extra minutes on a face gets really good results. The more green they come out, the more that pale color still shows through.

Goblin Update

All the black is done on the goblins. Didn’t get to skin today—son got sick, so I was hanging out keeping him happy. Tomorrow’s Warmachine day!

Transcript

Today I have a nononsense guide on painting grim dark pale orc flesh like this or like this one. And if you want to do cool spit effects like this, it’s just ooh glue on the model. We got uh hu and you just dab it on with a toothpick. It’s that easy. First you want to start with pallet witch flesh.

Just base coat it all over the model. Next, you mix quick shade wash medium with Bugman’s Glow 50/50. And then we put that on the mouth, the hands, and the elbows. Anywhere that’s going to be like pinker flesh. Now, we just cover all the model with streaking grime.

And then we wipe it away with a just a sponge and a Q-tip to get to this point. And that’s what turns our skin green. And then we’ll come back in with mineral spirits on things like the the very tops of the muscles and the teeth and the nails. And that’s how we get to here. And then next I’ll use Menoth White from P3 to paint the nails and the teeth and highlight the very tops of the mus of the muscles on the back.

You can really see it on the shoulders here. And [snorts] then in some places I’ll go back and just do a small wash of Carboard Crimson on those places where we put Bugman’s Glow. And for the last bit, just put a white dot for beady little eyes. And there you go. Very fast, very effective.

If you’re still here, thanks for making it to the end of the video. Uh, I thought it’d be faster to turn that into a short, but it cropped it poorly. So, I just also uploaded it here for full wide wide frame footage of it. Um, those are my Age of Sigma orcs. I’ve sold most of them.

Uh, and I I actually I made that guide while I was making them for myself. Like, I just took pictures. Uh, so cuz I did it like armywide and it was a ton of works at the time and I just didn’t want to forget what I was doing. Uh, but I I saw this comment which I’ll post right here and it reminded me that I had those photos still so I can show you how I like my take on grim dark uh orcs which is also really fast cuz if you especially have an airbrush cuz you can just airbrush piled witch flesh and kind of be done with it. Um, other than the streaking grime but here’s what they look like up close now.

And also a war chainer that I I just spent a little extra time on the face, like 20 minutes extra on the face, you can get really good results. And I still have these two guys. And you can see they’re they’re way more green or they come out way more green. Uh but it’s still that pale color. Pretty pretty sick.

Love this guy. This guy’s one of my favorites. I don’t think I’d ever get rid of him. Uh just cuz the mouth so gnarly. Goblin update is they’re coming along.

All the black is done. Uh didn’t get a chance to do the skin today. Son got sick, so I was just kind of hanging out. Uh keeping him happy. Tomorrow’s War Machine Day.

Very, very excited. Been watching the World Team Championship for War Machine all day while I was working on my goblins. So, ready to roll some dice which I will cover tomorrow. See you then.