Any Painting Skele guides around?

[Masot]

I've had a brief look at a few pages here, but cant see any painting guides, my skeles look absolutly....rubbish

Dry brush bleached bone
flesh wash
dry brush bleached bone

And they look AWEFULL!!!

Its embarrassing...

Also i cant think of any shield/banner colors? At the moment i have just purple on banners and nothing on armor/shields (the armor is just black with any outline in silver)

I'm not really a terribly bad painter...if i could find my digicam i'll post my vampire which, personally isnt to bad i think...but i cant get skeletons right

 

[The Dark Sheep]

The Citadel washes is the way to go (Yes here I go again ). They work much better than the inks in every way (exept for shinyness). Get yourself a pot of Devlan mud and give it another try.

 

[Trentonator]

Instead of drybrushing bleached bone the first time, you can just kinda slop paint on there (make sure not to obscure details) then wash/ink, THEN drybrush bleach bone and highlight with skull white.

Should look okay, but I haven't tried it myself.

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

My current strategy is:

Devlan mud (I used this as my basecoat on all things)
Bleached Bone
Skull white
wash with Badab Black
Highlight (very lightly) with Skull White

 

[Boo]

We had a tale of four gamers going on some time ago, in which The Dark Lord Mr Fluffy participated and he was painting a VC force. In his month one, he put up a painting guide to how he did is skellies, and its still around.

https://www.vampirecounts.net/showthread.php?tid=2274

As his skellies looked great I think you could give it a shot.

 

[Trentonator]

My bone is really simple and looks pretty good. I just go,

Basecoat Bestial Brown
Heavy drybrush Bleached bone
Light drybrush Skull white.

It looks pretty nice if you want clean looking bone.

 

[Riddler]

My skeletons are undercoated skull black, heavy dry brushed skull white and then a wash of devlen mud.

Riddler

 

[Masot]

Just found a way that makes me happy, its rubbish but:
Undercoat skull white
Coat it all bleeched bone, but drybrush the ribacge
coat it all in Bedab Black wash

It fills the gaps and looks sorta dirty lookin'
I'm not going to win any prizes but to for speed painting i dont mind them I'll put some pictures up when i get my camera sorted

 

[Genesis84]

There is a skeleton painting guide on the official games workshop webpage

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?categoryId=cat1300339&aId=1300010

 

[Josef]

here is how i did mine.

white primer
wash badab black
highlight bleached bone.

 

[torealis]

I'll post some pics up soon, but i think i've perfected the 'dirty northern skeleton' look.

Simply:

Black undercoat
Complete coat of Khemri Brown
Liberal Drybrush of Bleached Bone
Drench in Gryphonne Sepia.

for a darker look, replace sepia with devlan mud.

 

[nodmanmatt]

I do mine exactly the same as torealis, with a light brush of Scorched brown at the end to make them look that little bit more grimy. It's quick to paint and looks pretty good.

 

[Josef]

here is one put out by gw on painting tomb kings skeletons, might help.

guide

 

[spla5hmummy]

My current technique is very simple. Base them white, paint devlan mud ink over them, job done. Looks better than the simplistic style suggests. You may want to drybrush another light colour over the top but I like mine as they are.