Editing Warhammer 40,000/3rd Edition Tactics/Orks (section)

=== Painting ===

When first starting out with an Ork army, the sheer number of models you need to paint can be quite intimidating, but various tricks have been developed over the years to help make this process go along more smoothly. In particular, washes and drybrushing are your friends. The former is a heavily-diluted paint that goes on over the first green coat after the black basecoat, and sinks down into all the crevices to create shading effects, whilst the latter is a style of painting where most of the paint is removed from the brush with a tissue before painting, and grazes the raised details of the model to highlight texture. Drybrushing can also be used to paint rust and dirt on vehicles and equipment, whilst washes give weathering. Teeth and other light-coloured areas can often be tricky if you are using a black basecoat, so it helps to layer them up with first a dark brown or grey coat, and then a light brown or white coat.

Grots and Nobz can be done a little differently to regular Orks to make them stand out, by using lighter or darker colours for the first coat respectively, and age can be signified by skipping the drybrushing to leave individuals darker overall. And there are also transfer sheets that come with most boxes of miniatures, which are basically stickers for your models that can only be peeled off the backing paper once immersed in shallow water for about 30 seconds, a saucer will do nicely (you have a tea set, right?). For more tips, go see the [[WIP#Painting|Painting Guide]].

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