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Author Topic: Bone to pick...or how do you paint skeletons?  (Read 1115 times)

Offline Grimmnar

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Bone to pick...or how do you paint skeletons?
« on: September 17, 2024, 09:00:56 AM »
Painting Skeletons Recipe
So what's your goto in painting skeletons?
Skeletal Horde from Contrast paints, Pallad Bone from AP or do you got some other process to do Skeletal bone?

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Offline tikitang

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Re: Bone to pick...or how do you paint skeletons?
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2024, 09:06:07 AM »
Using my quick and dirty method (which is probably not the 'proper' way), I paint the whole skeleton with Army Painter's Skeleton Bone, then drybrush Matt White, then wash using Soft Tone all over.

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Offline voltan

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Re: Bone to pick...or how do you paint skeletons?
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2024, 10:21:02 AM »
Spray 'em white then apply wood stain for big batches. :D

For a bit more focused, again start with white, then flesh wash and a drybrush with bone, maybe linen on top of that if I want a highlight.

As you can probably guess I'm going for good enough in both cases.
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Offline Dr. Zombie

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Re: Bone to pick...or how do you paint skeletons?
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2024, 11:54:13 AM »
Leather brown primer, drybrush bone and the a wash of light tone and a delicate drybrush with an off white.

Offline Cypher226

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Re: Bone to pick...or how do you paint skeletons?
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2024, 12:08:57 PM »
For proper grimy, aged skeletons I used to use citadel snakebite leather, heavily thinned over white primer, with a dry brush of bone over the top.  Worked well on my Vampire Counts army back in the day.

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Re: Bone to pick...or how do you paint skeletons?
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2024, 12:54:34 PM »
Depends on what colour I want my skellies to look.

My undead army has them painted simply Army Painter Strong Tone over a white undercoat. This gives a more desaturated effect.

Recently though, I've acquired a pot of Contrast paint Skeleton Horde (I believe), and this gives the same reult, but much more yellow/brown :)

It's really the quickest and simplest way of painting them I gather. But granted; I only do this for big blocks of troops. For anything more characterful, I usually do a bit of layering and highlighting, but of course in one or the other of my bone tones...

Heh; bone tone  lol
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Re: Bone to pick...or how do you paint skeletons?
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2024, 05:52:56 PM »
Paint them a bone color.  Wash with GW speherim sepia then wash with GW anthonian cammo wash.  Both neat out of the bottle. 
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Offline beefcake

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Re: Bone to pick...or how do you paint skeletons?
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2024, 05:44:23 AM »
Using my quick and dirty method (which is probably not the 'proper' way), I paint the whole skeleton with Army Painter's Skeleton Bone, then drybrush Matt White, then wash using Soft Tone all over.
Pretty much the same for me.


Offline ErikB

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Re: Bone to pick...or how do you paint skeletons?
« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2024, 06:25:54 PM »
Another approach is to base coat with a dark brown, heavy dry brush with a medium brown, dry brush with bone, then light dry brush with white (if they're in a hot climate).

I find that using a wash tends to dye the drybrushed layers more than I want it to.

Offline beefcake

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Re: Bone to pick...or how do you paint skeletons?
« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2024, 05:29:40 AM »
My other post was for the masses but if I'm doing a more characterful one I'll basecoat a dark bone colour. Wash it sepia. Then highlight up to wight... um white.

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Re: Bone to pick...or how do you paint skeletons?
« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2024, 05:54:13 PM »
Foundry Rawhide Triad with any old offwhite added to the Rawhide Highlight for the final highlights


Offline 79thPA

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Re: Bone to pick...or how do you paint skeletons?
« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2024, 08:46:27 PM »
Spray prime black, dry brush white, then wash with a yellowish-brown.

Offline bluewillow

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Re: Bone to pick...or how do you paint skeletons?
« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2024, 09:13:10 PM »
I base prime a mid brown, then heavy dry brush Vallejo dark sand, then highlight dry brush Iraqi sand and white, satin varnish, then gloss agrax earthshade, then matt varnish.

A recent terrain piece


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