Painting Orange Skin
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About the Project
A couple of models from Rude Minis' "Make Your Miniatures Collection Great Again" Kickstarter. They arrived in early 2019 and it's about time I got some paint on them.
Related Genre: Fantasy
Related Contest: Spring Clean Hobby Challenge (Old)
This Project is Completed
Kicking off
This is a couple of models from Rude Minis’ “Make Your Miniatures Collection Great Again” Kickstarter. Rude Minis are the brainchild of Benoit Loic Cosse, of Rackham fame.
Whatever your views on politics, it’s just a bit of fun and an opportunity for me to paint something weird.
I won't say these are gorgeous minis because ah you know. They are excllent though
As ever I base minis first
... and get them primedI’ll do the little goblin Trump first, try out my colours, then tackle the larger model.
Orange Goblin
I’m starting with the goblin. He’s got smaller skin areas so I can try out my colours as a simple basecoat/wash/highlight/highlight scheme. The ogre, with his larger skin areas may need some blending, which will inform how I paint the little fella.
Base coat of Jokaero orange from GW and whoah! That's quite a start. 
This is a paint wash of VMC flat brown thinned with water and thinner medium.
The first set of highlights are pure Jokaero orange, just to recover the higher areas.
To build up the highlights I've worked in more and more VMC dark flesh. A nod and a wink to a "natural" skin tone.So far so standard. One thing of note is my wash using paint instead of ink. I’d originally planned to use GW Seraphim Sepia. I switched to paint as I thought I’d be blending on the ogre; using paint strikes me as a bit more useful in case I end up mixing it with Jokaero orange.
Next stop, the big lad!
The Big Lad
Having a decent recipe, I started on the big Lad. There are a wealth of details on this model: some really disturbing, all excellent. But that’s for the future, today’s all about that orange skin tone.
Back to basics - a base coat with Jokaero Orange.
A paint wash with VMC Flat Brown, water and Thinner Medium.With the larger model I felt there was more variety in the shadows. I put a heavier wash on areas such as the face and hands as these would have the deep lines of shadow. I expected the definition on areas like his arms would maybe be too strong, so I was glad I’d shaded with paint.
I started with pure Jokaero Orange to recover the high areas. Yes those dark shadows on the arms are too much.
I took the highlights almost up to pure VMC Dark Flesh but was losing the ornage tint I wanted. I made a thin glaze of Jokearo Orange that both restored the orange tint and toned down some of the shade. Happy now.So that’s the orange skin. I’ll now do the (irrelevant to this tutorial but important to me) rest of the minis and get back to you all.
Painting Finished
And here we are. The irrelevant to the tutorial, but important to me stage of the project: finishing the models.
And here they are.
Not forgetting the Lloyd shot.
The big lad is really the star of the show.
But the little guy is cool too.
And here we have them in a setting.I’ve not much use for either of these figures, though they’ll get shoehorned in to Frostgrave or Rangers of Shadow Deep at the merest opportunity. Maybe a specific encounter to go up against a greedy, egotistical but oh so dumb ogre.
Their lack of utility is a side issue though, I love these two minis. The detail on the ogre is fantastic. My favourite is the pig tied up on his back; I loved using my regular skin recipe for the hog to contrast with the ogre’s orange.
And finally ... on the telly.
Finishing off with a YouTube vid, which admittedly does include the phrases “skin the colour of a hangover piss” and “don’t think about Don’s nipples … Don’s nipples yeurgh”. Be warned.
