HOW TO PAINT : ORK’S

THIS BOOKLET WILL TAKE YOU THROUGH, STEP BY STEP, ON HOW TO PAINT AN ORK BOY MINTURE BUT THIS DOES’NT MEAN YOU CANNOT USE THE TECNIQUES YOU LEARN HERE TO PAINT OTHER ORK MINITURES OR EVEN OTHER RACES OF CITADEL MINITURE.

·         The first thing you must do before painting any CITADEL miniature is to set up a suitable painting area for you to be able to paint easily and comfortably at. So take a few sheets of old newspaper (not the one your mum or dad is reading) and spread it out on a table or work bench where you will be painting at. Next you must fill an old used pot or jar full of cold water, it must be cold because otherwise it will not remove the paint fully from your brush when you rinse it out. Set it onto your area where it cannot easily tip over. You can blue tack your water pot/ jar down for extra stability.

Then take two pieces of kitchen role and place them next to each other, one will be for drying of your brush when you have rinsed it , and the other is for when you want to dry brush but this technique will be explained later. Now you have your area set up you need y­­­­our equipment. 

·         You will need a various number of tools and paints to paint CITADEL miniatures but once you have them it is much simpler. The equipment you will need is :

·         A  medium sized dry brush

·         A  standard brush

·         A  fine detail brush

·         Modelling sand

·         Modelling grass

·         PVA glue

( All of these items can be purchased at a games workshop store, the staff will help you find what you want with no fuss at all and if you have and questions or you want to find the location of these shops please visit WWW.gamesworkshop.com  where you can find what you are looking for.)

·         Now that you have your basic equipment you need paints to use them with, these paints can be acquired via the games workshop website or by their stores. For this particular model these are the paints you will require:

·         CITADEL colour KNARLOC  GREEN

·         CITADEL colour MECHRITE  RED

·         CITADEL colour CHAOS  BLACK

·         CITADEL colour SKULL  WHITE

·         CITADEL colour BOLTGUN  METAL

·         CITADEL colour TIN  BITZ

·         CITADEL colour BLOOD  RED

·         CITADEL colour CALTHAN  BROWN

·         CITADEL colour TALLARN  FLESH

·         The model that we will be painting is called an ‘Games Workshop Ork Boy’

This miniature comes in a multi part plastic kit and must be assembled by using ‘CITADEL plastic glue thick’. It has multiple options for weapons and poses; it is the most basic troop of the orks and is a great model to start on, for someone who is just starting to collect ork’s. There will be ten miniatures in a pack of ork boys so you will spend a while painting them and assembling them. I am only going to tell you how to paint the ork boy miniature but the asembly instructions are shown on the box.

·         When you have your area, equipment and paints you can get on with assembling and priming. First assemble the miniature as stated on the box with the ‘CITADEL plastic glue thick’, this will be difficult the first time you do it but you will get better with practice. When this is done and the glue has hardened you should cover the miniature in several coats of the ‘CITADEL Chaos Black spray primer’. This will give you a base coat to work off. When you spray the model you want to be outside in a nice open area and try to refrain from breathing in any of the spray paint, as it can be poisonous if too much is inhaled and have bad side effects. Please do not use around young children or asthma sufferers. When spraying stay about 15cm away from the model with the can and only dust the model with the paint, you don’t want the primer too thick, otherwise the details of the miniature will be obscured. I would advise you to practise on a piece of scrap wood or stone just to get the hang of it. Please keep well clear of fire in this process as the primer is extremely flammable. When you have covered one side of the model leave it to dry for 15 minutes, then turn the model over and spay the other side and wait another 15 minutes. Next spray the top of the model and wait for a further 15 minutes and then spray the underside of the model and wait the last 15 minutes. I would advice spraying multiple models at once because it is more time effective. It is easier to spray the underside of the model if the base is not attached and then put on later.

  

·         Once you have your primed and based miniature you can paint it. The first step is to take your ‘CITADEL standard brush’ and paint the skin of your Ork Boy the colour ‘Knarloc Green’, (remember to shake all of your paints before use) and let it dry for a few minutes. Then take a mixing pallet or a paper plate and mix a small amount of the colour ‘Skull White’ with a slightly larger amount of the colour ‘Knarloc green’ (in about a 2:1 ratio , 2 parts ‘Knarloc Green’, 1 part ‘ Skull white’) ,remember wash out your brush before switching to a different colour. Then using this mixture and take your ‘CITADEL medium dry brush’ and dry brush the paint on to the skin parts of the model you previously painted. The technique of dry brushing is very simple, but very effective. What you do is get a small amount of your paint on your dry brush and the take your piece of kitchen role and then wipe of most of the paint so you are left with only enough paint to catch the top bits of the model, Then when you have done this you bring your brush back and forwards quickly across your chosen area but not going in to the deeper parts of the model, so you get the effect of depth In your miniature and it will make it look amazing with not much effort. 

·         After you have finished the skin you now start the armour, this includes and chest decoration, shoulder padding and metal objects apart from the weaponry, which will be painted later. For my model I have chosen a red colour but, like many things in Warhammer 40K, it is up to you what colour your Ork’s armour is. If you want to have red armour you have to take your ‘CITADEL standard bush’ and paint the armour of the ork in ‘Mechrite Red’. then take your ‘CITADEL medium dry brush’ and dry brush the armour with the colour ‘Tin Bitz’ and then dry brush the armour again but this time with the colour ‘Boltgun metal’.

·           Now take your ‘CITADEL standard brush’ and paint the weapons, chest piece, bracelets and belt buckles of the ork with the colour ‘Boltgun Metal’. Then dry brush the same areas with the colour ‘Tin Bitz’.

·         Use your ‘CITADEL fine detail brush’ to paint the ork’s belt, shoulder straps and boots in ‘Calthan Brown’. Then dry brush the colour ‘Tallarn Flesh’ on to the areas previously painted ‘Calthan Brown’.

·         Next paint the leathery clothing of the ork using the ‘CITADEL standard brush’ in the colour ‘Chaos Black’. (If you used the primer still do this stage because there may have been mistakes you made onto the black, so just check for any mistakes and correct them.)

·         Using the ‘CITADEL fine detail brush’ paint the mouth, teeth, eyes and eye sockets in the colour ‘Chaos Black’. Then use the ‘CITADEL fine detail brush’ to paint the teeth in the colour ‘Skull White’, then paint a small dot in the middle of the eye to act as the pupil this is painted in the colour ‘Skull White’.(this will take a large amount of practice and a steady hand but it brings the miniature to life so it is worth the effort.

·         You can add some blood on to you ork’s swords or chain blades, this is done by taking your ‘CITADEL medium dry brush’ and then dry brush the top of the blade or the edge of the chain blade in the colour ‘Blood Red’

·         Now that your miniature is fully painted you may have made a few mistakes on its base. Do not worry because we are going to decorate the base of the miniature. First put a small blob of ‘CITADEL PVA glue’ about the size of a small garden pea on to the base of your miniature, then take a lolly pop stick or an cotton bud and spread the glue around the base of the miniature carefully avoiding the legs of the miniature. Once you have the base coated in glue take your pot of ‘CITADEL modelling sand’ and dig the model into the pot using circular motions so that it’s base is completely covered with the modelling sand, then take it out of the sand and shake the excess off. Let it dry for about 6-7 hours for it to completely harden. After the modelling sand has completely dried onto the base, add some tiny blobs of PVA glue, no bigger than the tip of your ‘CITADEL fine detail brush’, and then take your ‘CITADEL modelling grass’, and use about a pinch of the grass to dab on to the selected areas of your miniatures base that you have put glue on. Once you have done this shake off the excess and then blow on to the grass to make it stand up and appear larger and more realistic.  

·         That’s it, hopefully by the end of reading this you have learnt all the techniques that you need if you are going to be painting ork’s or any CITADEL miniature. The ork boyz set is a good way of bolstering your force or starting out a new one, but if you are in need of more ork models for starting a big ork army I can recommend two sets that will get you on the right way to starting an ork force or increasing your current one. They are :

·         Assault On Black Reach:

This set is the basic starter pack to Warhammer 40k but gives you a wide variety of models for the orks and the space marines. This is a great gift and gives you models that would otherwise cost considerably more on their own, because there are two armies in this set you can share it with someone else and go 50/50 on the cost, either way it is a great set and a worthwhile purchase for any Warhammer 40k fan.

·         Ork Battleforce:

This is the ultimate way to start an ork force and offers the most amount of ork miniatures in any set ever released. It includes vehicles, war bikes, infantry, and a boss.

Either of these two sets are going to get you well on your way collecting orks, and if you stay dedicated and put the time in, the results will come out.

Thanks to:

·          Games workshop

·          CITADEL