"What Paint Recipe Do You Prefer For Skeletons?" Topic

There's a ton of tutorials on painting skellies out there, but for your personal tastes, what paint colors/techniques do you prefer for the best look?

Prime black, drybush with GW bleached bone, highlight with white.

Base coat with a cream, wash with a dark brown ink, drybrush with cream and just a hint of white.

I'm the same as Cory, except I prime white

basecoat White, dip in AP Strong Tone, drybrush bleached bone.

Similar to Cory's recipe.

Reaper makes a bone triad that is pretty good, I use it fairly often. If I'm doing a more detailed and want a cooler tone I use purple and mix a little yellow for each highlight and finish it off with white added.

Base coat sand then black wash then drybrush lightly with white.

I use a dark brown primer, then dry brush with various shades bone/off white and you are done.

Brown undercoat, paint GW bleached bone, W&N Nut brown or W&N peat brown ink wash. If its a big model (28mm+) it gets a very light grey drybrush.

Phil

I use the reaper triad (or two of them).
Base coat in Aged Bone.
Dark wash (black ink, water, future)
Highlight in Polished Bone.

Prime with Army Painter Bone.
Wash with a brown ink/devlan mud/sepia/black (watered down) depending on the group and effect I am looking for.
Drybrush with GW bleached bone or the like.
Then paint in the details and equipment.

I never could hit on one method. My first skeletons were sprayed white primer, then given a grimy black wash. I still think they look cool. Later, I got kind of OC about getting a certain special something to "stare" back at me; that included washes and dry brushing amundo until I just got too stiff in the neck and called it quits. Here are a few my favorite undead, including various skeleton faces. link ….

I've used several methods, depending on how fresh I want the bones and how much supernatural dread I want them to exude.

One of the simplest back in the day was a white base with GW's (second, ruddy) Flesh Wash over the top.

Another, to represent more of a "just ripped from the flesh" look, used a pink base, a brown ink wash, then dry-brushed white or bone over that.

The supernatural glow that isn't actually a glow uses a black base and dry-brushed cold greys and white over it.

Paint them brown then dry brush white. simple.

For a mouldering rather than bleached effect:

1) Basecoat of Tamiya Olive Drab or Khaki Drab
2) Drybrush of Tamiya JA Grey or Buff (this works best if the paint is watered down and the brush is really dry)
3) Glaze of Tamiya flat black into the eyes and main joints; knee joints, shoulder joints, hips etc.
4) Lighter drybrush of GW white on selected areas
5) Glaze of Flat Black in mouth and teeth
6) Wet brush of GW white, with some paint removed, glided lightly over teeth

This works best on Tomb Kings skeletons, which are large enough to have some good detail – it should even pick out the ridges in the skull between the teeth and nasal cavity.

I have only painted Games workshops skeletons, but this is what I do:

Prime them white
paint the entire model with very watered down bleached bone (almost like a wash).
Heavy dry brush of Dry Sand
Very light dry brush of white
Paint the teeth white (I think this looks great, and makes them stand out. Teeth tend to stay white anyway.)
Put a light coat of Miniwax Floor varnish in the Ancient Walnut color stain on them.
Hit them with the testers dullcoat.