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How to paint Orc Mobs

Reference photos, colour schemes with the exact paints for every area, and finished models from other painters — everything you need to start Orc Mobs for your Orc and Goblin Tribes force.

Role CorePoints 5Faction Orc and Goblin TribesSystem Warhammer: The Old World

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What the Orc and Goblin Tribes range looks like

Shows the Orc and Goblin Tribes range rather than Orc Mobs in particular — the same picture stands for 2 units of this army.
Shows the Orc and Goblin Tribes range rather than Orc Mobs in particular — the same picture stands for 2 units of this army.

Colour schemes

Orc and Goblin Tribes — Orc Mobs

Beginner · 6 areas

Green skin, scrap iron and one tribal colour. Written for a mob rather than a model: the skin is the only stage worth slowing down for, and everything after it is one pass across the whole unit.

Green skin

  1. Basecoat the skin Basecoat — Waaagh! Flesh over a black undercoat. If you would rather batch the mob faster, Ork Flesh contrast over Wraithbone reaches roughly the same place in one coat and takes the shade step with it.
  2. Shade the muscle All-over shade
  3. Layer the raised flesh Layer — Warboss Green over the muscle bellies, then Skarsnik Green on the brow, jaw and knuckles alone.

Scrap armour and choppa

  1. Basecoat the metal Basecoat
  2. Shade it All-over shade
  3. Rust and pit the plates Stipple — Typhus Corrosion stippled on unevenly, then Ryza Rust dragged over the raised edges. Orc kit should look salvaged, so uneven is the goal.

Hide and cloth

  1. Basecoat the hides Basecoat
  2. Shade them All-over shade
  3. Drybrush the fur Drybrush

Teeth, tusks and claws

  1. Basecoat the ivory Basecoat
  2. Shade the roots Recess shade
  3. Highlight the tips Detail — Screaming Skull on the tusk tips only. Tusks are the first thing anyone looks at on an orc.

Tribe glyph

  1. Block the glyph Freehand — One shape, repeated on every shield in the mob. A crude glyph painted identically twenty times looks intentional; a careful one painted differently does not.
  2. Tidy the outline Detail

Base

  1. Texture the base Texture
  2. Drybrush the churned earth Drybrush
  3. Rim the base Detail

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