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So today I finally got round to painting up my first skeleton using the new paints and GW's "Bone" paint collection, minus the drybrushing and the second highlight.

I also added some of the new technical stuff, and now need to figure out how to weather the bone to make it fit in. I hate drybrushing, I don't like the spotty look washes give and I have no weathering powders. Is there anything anyone can suggest?

I wouldn't write that off till it's based, looks ok to me.
You need bone to be cleaner than real world examples or it loses definition at mini scales. For really aged bone, start with darker brown/greys and work up from there; it's more about tone than any fancy weathering effect.

Well here he is again, with his dead friend! Both finished apart from being based...unless anyone spots anything I've missed.

What do you think of these? I plan on basing them in a sort of watery swampy area, to go with the heavy corrosion on all the armour and weapons.

I think i saw your other thread of this dude completed, but simply as an easy, cheap, pigment test...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inscribe-Soft-Pastel-Set-Colours/dp/B002NL6H0Q/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1412172830&sr=8-3&keywords=soft+pastels

thats 64 soft pastels for about £4.... orrr after you've ground them up thats 64 pigments
(i put mine in a food bag and rolling pin them to death- not together ofc....unless you like poweder madness!)

For £4 you really cant go wrong, I have found pigments really really fun to use, you can sorta go quite mad in the application as its so easy to remove.

Use a lustrian undergrowth type colour and make them look like they have that sort of green mossy scale stuff on them

I don't know what your skill level is, but if you give it a solid base coat, a wash, and 1 or 2 highlights from there you'll get around the wash looking 'spotty'. Also, if you thin the wash down a little with some Lahmian Medium or distilled water it will help the wash go on smoother.

I just don't think there's a better way to paint and weather bone than by giving it a thin controlled wash. I'm sure you could do a little with powders, but nothing beats a wash imo.

The models are looking good so far. I would definitely thin the washes down, reapply a highlight/clean up the wash with the base coat, then 1 or 2 highlights from there. If your highlights look too stark you can use a glaze to bring things back together. There are enough paints in the range that you don't have to worry about mixing things unless you really want to.