Squig Orange is a rich, warm orange acrylic miniature paint designed for layering, highlighting, and adding vibrant colour to Warhammer miniatures, tabletop gaming models, and hobby projects. Part of the Warhammer Colour Layer range from Games Workshop, Squig Orange features a distinctive reddish-orange tone that is particularly effective for painting creature skin, armour, clothing, weapons, decorative details, and natural-looking highlights.

With its warm combination of orange and red undertones, Squig Orange provides an excellent intermediate colour between deeper reds and brighter orange highlights. Unlike a vivid yellow-orange, its slightly muted, earthy appearance makes it particularly useful for creating natural colour transitions, weathered surfaces, and rich organic textures. This versatility allows painters to incorporate Squig Orange into a wide variety of fantasy, science-fiction, and historical miniature colour schemes.

As a Layer paint, Squig Orange is formulated for applying controlled layers of colour over an established basecoat. Layer paints are particularly useful for building depth, creating smooth transitions, and highlighting raised details without obscuring the miniature's sculpted features. Squig Orange can be applied over darker red, brown, or orange base colours to gradually develop brighter areas and create convincing variations in light and shadow.

Squig Orange is particularly well suited to painting the distinctive creatures of the Gloomspite Gitz in Warhammer Age of Sigmar. Squigs are among the most recognisable creatures in the Mortal Realms, with their enormous mouths, powerful legs, and unpredictable behaviour. Their colourful skin provides an excellent opportunity to experiment with vibrant red and orange painting techniques, and Squig Orange is ideal for highlighting raised muscles, facial features, and other prominent areas.

For painters working on Squig Hoppers, Boingrot Bounderz, Mangler Squigs, and other Gloomspite Gitz creatures, Squig Orange provides a useful highlight colour over deeper red basecoats. Its warm tone helps bring definition to rounded surfaces and muscular details, creating a lively appearance that complements the exaggerated anatomy of these unusual creatures.

The colour is equally valuable for painting Warhammer 40,000 miniatures. Squig Orange can be used to highlight red armour, create warm colour transitions on Chaos Space Marines, add detail to Ork equipment, and develop distinctive colour schemes for alien creatures. Its reddish-orange appearance makes it particularly useful for models requiring warm highlights without the stronger contrast of a bright yellow-orange.

For Blood Angels Space Marines and other armies featuring red armour, Squig Orange can be incorporated into a layered highlighting process. Applied carefully to raised armour panels and prominent edges, it provides a warm transition from deeper reds towards brighter highlights. It can also be used selectively to create worn paint effects, decorative markings, and subtle colour variations across larger surfaces.

Within Warhammer: The Horus Heresy, Squig Orange offers similar applications for Space Marine Legions, vehicles, and battlefield equipment. Its warm tone can be used for armour highlights, heraldry, unit markings, decorative elements, and weathering effects, particularly on models featuring red, orange, or rust-coloured schemes.

One of the most useful applications of Squig Orange is creating realistic rust and corrosion effects. Its earthy reddish-orange colour makes it an excellent choice for highlighting rusted metal, weathered machinery, damaged armour, and exposed industrial surfaces. When combined with darker browns, deep reds, and metallic paints, it can help create the appearance of oxidised iron and equipment that has endured prolonged exposure to harsh battlefield conditions.

For a convincing rust effect, begin with a dark brown or dark metallic basecoat and apply irregular patches of reddish-brown colour. Squig Orange can then be stippled or carefully layered onto selected areas to represent brighter rust deposits. Additional highlights with lighter orange tones can create further variation, while exposed metallic edges can suggest areas where corrosion has been worn away through use.

Squig Orange is also particularly effective for painting organic textures and creature skin. Its warm colour works well on monsters, daemons, dragons, reptiles, and other fantasy creatures. By combining it with deeper red or brown shading and lighter orange highlights, painters can create convincing variations across muscles, scales, skin folds, and other sculpted details.

For Warhammer Age of Sigmar armies beyond the Gloomspite Gitz, Squig Orange can be used for fiery creatures, Chaos Daemons, decorative armour, banners, fabrics, and magical effects. It is especially useful when painting models featuring warm colour schemes or dramatic contrasts between dark surfaces and bright orange details.

The paint also offers applications for flames, glowing embers, and magical energy effects. Squig Orange can be combined with darker reds, brighter oranges, and yellows to build transitions that suggest intense heat or supernatural energy. It is particularly useful for painting burning torches, flaming weapons, fiery creatures, glowing runes, and other details associated with heat and fire.

Beyond Games Workshop miniatures, Squig Orange is a versatile addition to the paint collection of historical wargamers, fantasy painters, and military modellers. It can be used for weathered equipment, autumn foliage, leather highlights, decorative fabrics, rust effects, and other details requiring a warm reddish-orange colour.

For scenery and terrain projects, Squig Orange is particularly useful for adding colour variation to rocky landscapes, rusted industrial structures, damaged vehicles, ruined buildings, and natural environments. Its warm tone can be incorporated into desert terrain, autumn scenery, volcanic landscapes, and other settings where earthy orange colours help establish a distinctive atmosphere.

When applying Squig Orange, use a suitable hobby brush and work over a properly prepared and primed surface. Shake the paint thoroughly before use and thin with a small amount of water or an appropriate acrylic painting medium when necessary. Apply controlled, thin layers to gradually build colour and preserve fine miniature details. For smoother transitions, use several progressively smaller highlights rather than attempting to achieve the final colour in a single heavy application.

Whether you're highlighting the skin of a Gloomspite Gitz Squig, adding warmth to red Space Marine armour, creating realistic rust effects on industrial machinery, or painting fiery details on fantasy miniatures, Warhammer Colour Layer: Squig Orange is a practical and versatile addition to your painting collection. Its distinctive reddish-orange colour makes it especially useful for hobbyists who want rich, natural-looking highlights and convincing warm colour transitions.

Features:

• Product: Warhammer Colour Layer: Squig Orange.
• Games Workshop Product Code: 22-08.
• Manufacturer: Games Workshop.
• Paint Range: Warhammer Colour.
• Paint Type: Layer.
• Colour: Warm reddish-orange.
• Water-based acrylic miniature paint designed for brush application.
• Formulated for layering, highlighting, and building colour over an established basecoat.
• Ideal for painting and highlighting Gloomspite Gitz Squigs and other fantasy creatures.
• Suitable for creating warm highlights on red armour, including Blood Angels Space Marines.
• Excellent for painting rust, corrosion, weathered metal, and industrial machinery.
• Useful for creating organic textures, creature skin, scales, and muscular details.
• Suitable for Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer Age of Sigmar, and Warhammer: The Horus Heresy miniatures.
• Can be used for flames, glowing embers, magical effects, decorative details, and warm colour transitions.
• Useful for historical wargaming miniatures, fantasy models, science-fiction vehicles, and general hobby projects.
• Suitable for painting autumn scenery, desert terrain, volcanic landscapes, and weathered battlefield environments.

Painting Tips: For a classic red Squig colour scheme, begin with a suitable deep red basecoat, shade the recesses, and apply Squig Orange to raised muscles, facial details, and prominent surfaces. Add smaller highlights with a brighter orange to create additional definition. For red power armour, use Squig Orange sparingly on selected edges and raised areas to produce warm highlights. For realistic rust effects, stipple Squig Orange over darker brown and metallic colours, varying the application to create an irregular, weathered appearance.

Please Note: This product contains one pot of Warhammer Colour Layer: Squig Orange acrylic miniature paint. Miniatures, brushes, and other painting accessories are sold separately. Shake thoroughly before use and replace the lid securely after painting to prevent the paint from drying out.

SKU	99189951008
Barcode #	5011921197156
Brand	Games Workshop
Shipping Weight	0.1000kg
Shipping Width	0.050m
Shipping Height	0.050m
Shipping Length	0.050m
Shipping Cubic	0.000125000m3

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