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I have got AOBR set and have painted a couple of the marines as Ultramarines. I quite like the look of them, as the colours work well together but i am considering painting the rest in my own made up chapter colours. I like the colours of Bleached bone for the armour and Mechrite red for the Shoulder surrounds and chest eagle etc. Does anyone have any tips for painting with bleached bone? Is it hard to get it to cover evenly? i am undercoating in black. I was thinking of maybe drybrushing or highlighting with skull white. Or would it be better to use a Foundation colour for the armour?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Try looking into some tutorials for painting deathwing terminators.

Bright colours tend to be quite hard to get right or evenly.

Yellow is the hardest.

Biggest suggestion would be to prime white and do several thin layers of bleached bone.

I agree with VikingScott, try priming in white.

GW has a useful guide for painting Ravenwing armor, which is primarily bone-colored. Have a look here: http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=cat440176a&categoryId=900004§ion=&pIndex=3&aId=2600021&start=4&multiPageMode=true

Brown Ink is no longer available, so use something like Devlan Mud instead.

In addition to that GW tutorial, I will also agree with others for priming white.

ALWAYS prime white. You can darken minis easily, but going from dark to bright is incredibly time consuming and annoying.

You can also prime with a Krylon or Rustoleum Camo Khaki.

Prime white, then wash once or twice with gryphonne sienna and highlight with bleached bone for a simple, easy bone effect.

Don't even try with a black primer, it's just not worth the effort.

No amount of tutorials or free lottery wins would ever convince me to go back to marines and bone colours.

Definitely use a white base. My first batch were black primed and it was a monster task layering up to a decent bone colour. Over black you'll have to thin down, as a thick layer of bone, while looking solid has a terrible surface, although several thin coats can be a pain, especially on shoulder pads - and forget using studded pads - nightmare.

If you do insist on a black coat, then give yourself a chance and basecoat in as light a brown as you can get away with, and avoid inks - in my experience what looks like a flat finish can end up looking awfully patchy under gryphonne sepia.

After several iterations I finally went for snakebite leather, 1:1 leather and bone midcoat and then bone using layers to achieve shading. I ended up drybrushing shoulder pads to get a flat finish.

In short, what about green? Green is a nice colour.

Have you considered dheneb stone? I painted a DA drop pod with it, the plan being that it would act as an undercoat for bleached bone. The finish with just DS was so good I just left it.

Hey,

I've recently been doing a similar army Bleached bone with Gory Red trims.



I prime white (why on earth would oyu use black ),
Apply a thin coat of bleached bone.
Paint the recesses with chestnut wash.
Coat with bleached bone again.

Cheers

NC.

Slipstream wrote:Have you considered dheneb stone?

I am definatly considering it as i am very impressed with the ease of the foundation paints. I'm using Mordian Blue at the moment i'll have to get a pot of Dheneb and give it a go.


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NiallCampbell wrote:Hey,

I've recently been doing a similar army Bleached bone with Gory Red trims.



I prime white (why on earth would oyu use black ),
Apply a thin coat of bleached bone.
Paint the recesses with chestnut wash.
Coat with bleached bone again.

Cheers

NC.

Thats pretty much the colour scheme i'm considering. They look quite striking i think.

Super easy way. Prime white, then do a VERY heavy wash of gryphonne sepia and let it fully dry. Sepia over white is a perfect color match for bleached bone. It looks quite good just like that, or you can even out the wash by going over it in bleached bone leaving the sepia as the shading, and adding a bit of white to the bone for highlighting.

Thanks for the tip Kalamadea

The biggest problem I've noticed since switching to Vallejo Paint/Inks is that the inks 'run' when painting over them so it takes patience to achieve the clean bone look.

Agreed though, it's a striking look.

Ta.

You should prime with skull white or A light colour, then paint it with dheneb stone... Then do how you feel.

The shoulder pads of my marines are bleached bone. I doe the following:

1. Undercoat black (as rest of model is dark green)
2. Add 1 layer of skull white
3. Add 1-2 layers of Bleached bone (BB)
4. Then a layer of Snakebite brown (SB) along the edges.
5. Blend with 1 layer of mixed SB and BB (70:30)
6. Blend with 1 layer of mixed SB and BB (30:70)
7. Very watered down mix of black and chest nut ink (2% black, 18% chestnut, 80% water.)

Looks good .. but is only a shoulder pad. A whole mini would be a time consuming pain the [insert suitable anatomical feature here].

Well, as much as I favor and prefer black primer over any other color. You might consider working with a grey or even white primer. This will eliminate alot of your painting work and keep you from layering up paints really thick. For bleached bone, if your having a difficult time with coverage I would suggest mixing a 1:1 ratio of Bleached bone and Deneb stone. This should rectify the problem. You might also add a real small amount of brown in there at first, that way you have a nive color to work off of and leave a little behind for depth. Then you can go back over everything with a simple drybrushing of Bleached bone and Beached bone/skull white mix for a highlight. Best of Luck!

I prime my models brown. If I was doing Bleached Bone, I'd use Khemri Brown Foundation. I'm not 100% sure of the name, but it looks like Graveyard Earth.

I'm not a big fan of white primer; darker primer gives me a better idea of how the overall model will end up looking, and shows the detail better. YMMV.

Grey or white primer.

Adeptus Battlegrey base.

3 coats of slightly diliuted Bleached Bone.

after this later in your ink color of choise between drybrushed Bleached Bone working your way up to your highlight colors.

Profit.

I have some areas of my Tau Tanks that I was painting in the same colors and had some major issues getting smooth coats. I did some experimenting and actually came up with a neat alternate solution:

Acrylic Ink.

http://www.dickblick.com/products/daler-rowney-fw-acrylic-water-resistant-artists-ink/

It goes on really smooth, gets a nice opaque coat in a single pass, and is waterproof. They don't offer a color that's an exact match for Bleached Bone, but I was able to mix up a match using Sienna, Yellow Ochre, White, and a little Royal Blue GW paint to cool it down a bit.

Grey/Black Primer Coats can work well, provided you use Dheneb Stone as the framework for the bone.

One wash that I feels gets overlooked when doing bone colored models is Ogryn Flesh. It can give a 'warm' tone to the bone that Gryphonne Sepia can't.