Painting bone

[Indigo]

I've finally realised that, despite my best efforts, I just can't paint this texture very well.

I've tried starting with scorched brown, followed by bestial then vomit and finally bleached bone, but it simply doesn't look right.

Any tips?

[joker]

base of bleached bone, wash of chesnut or brown
drybrush or blend with base color and add white and more and more

[Norse]

chestnut wash (thinned down) works nicely to blend in the colours I find.. plus I often finish with a thinned down white on very prominent areas (teeth, area of skull above the eye sockets) to give a polished look...

[joker]

in fact thats depend if u want nice polished skel (norse teknik) or buried look (add more dirty wash, brown, dark green)

hum i cant translate my idea

[Torpor]

As said before - it depends upon if you want a clean or dirty (freshly dug up) look.

Dirty look - Black Primer, brown of your choice, bone, chestnut wash, bone, and then white

Clean look - Black Primer, bone, chestnut wash, bone, and then white

Thin the Chestnut Wash (Flesh Wash works too btw).

The washes have a tendency to make the figure look 'shiny', which is good if you like the fresh out of the ground feel. If you don't like that, cover it with a matte varnish.

Cheers,
Torpor

[Orinoco]

As said, depends upon clean or dirty.

Dirty - white basecoat, 50% brown 50% yellow ink mix washed over this, then drybrush up with orc brown, bleached bown and skull white, finally paint the teech white

Clean - beastial brown basecoat, layering up through snakebite leather, bronzed flesh, bleached bone and skull white

Orinoco

[Grasshopper]

What they said. I did a team and 2 boosters worth of Khemri using:
1.White Primer
2. Bleached Bone base
3. Brown (bestial I think) wash
4. Bleached Drybrush
5. 50/50 Bone/White Drybrush
6. White highlights

But then again I was going for hte left in teh desert sun & sand look. If you're doing a more norhtern/Empire looking Skeleton then Id drop most of the bleached and make it as they said... Dirtier.

[squiggoth]

The methods I use:

Dirty look a.k.a. speed paint:
Scorched brown, wetbrush bestial brown, wetbrush snakebite, drybrush bubonic brown, blend bleached bone
or
Scorched brown, blend graveyard earth, blend comando khaki, layer bleached bone

Clean look:
Scorched brown, layer vomit brown, blend bleached bone
or
Scorched brown, blend bestial brown, blend bleached bone

Bleached by a desert:
Codex grey, layer fortress grey, layer elf grey (or ghostly grey), blend skull white

Nurgly bones:
Scorched brown, layer vomit brown, blend rotting flesh
or
Scorched brown, blend bestial brown, blend rotting flesh

[Grasshopper]

Anyone else notice how his quick paint method has the most steps to it? That Nurgle Rot's finally gotten into 'is 'ead. Poor boy.

[squiggoth]

Nope, the speed paint method is all flat colours over each other, the others are careful blends. Shame on you and an oozing boil for good measure!