Bone to pick...or how do you paint skeletons?

[Grimmnar]

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?

Grimm

[tikitang]

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.

[voltan]

Spray 'em white then apply wood stain for big batches.

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.

[Dr. Zombie]

Leather brown primer, drybrush bone and the a wash of light tone and a delicate drybrush with an off white.

[Cypher226]

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.

[Daeothar]

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 

[snitcythedog]

Paint them a bone color.  Wash with GW speherim sepia then wash with GW anthonian cammo wash.  Both neat out of the bottle. 

[beefcake]

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.

[ErikB]

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.

[beefcake]

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.

[Dags]

Foundry Rawhide Triad with any old offwhite added to the Rawhide Highlight for the final highlights

[79thPA]

Spray prime black, dry brush white, then wash with a yellowish-brown.

[bluewillow]

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


Cheers
Matt