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**illuknisaa**

I'm toying with this idea making couple of skeletons like in army of darkness.

Bleached bone+devlan mud
I don't think it's going to work because it will leave too dark and "smooth" finish.

My personal guess would be something like bleached bone+satin varnish+brown oil wash but I don't paints to test this.

If somebody has a mini example of the scheme it would be greatly appreciated.

**mullet_steve**

You could start with a slightly different color like a 2:1 mix of bleached bone to snakebite leather... I remember the good old days when everyone's skellys were drybrushed....

Ohhh well back to my old man corner

**spacewolf407**

I would do bleached bone and devlan mud. That's how I do bones for my space wolves.

**winterdyne**

Charadon granite, drybrush Deneb stone.

**Kanluwen**

I actually did something like this for my Wight King Standard Bearer and my Cairn Wraith.

The trick was using Scorched Brown as the basecoat for the bone, and then using Graveyard Earth to lighten it up.
Final color was Kommando Khaki, then the bone was washed with a mixture of Gryphonne Sepia/Devlan Mud.

**Shenloanne**

Looks kinda like there's a touch of gore still left on them so I would go

Adeptus battlegrey
Graveyard earth
Kommando Khaki
Wash Ogryn Flesh

**winterdyne**

Charadon granite, drybrush Deneb stone.

**A Kvlt Ghost**

illuknisaa wrote:
Bleached bone+devlan mud
I don't think it's going to work because it will leave too dark and "smooth" finish.

Not if you put a drybrush of bone on after your wash. That's how I used to do my skeletons when I played fantasy, and it looks a lot like the one in that screenshot.

**dkellyj**

Bleached bone. Sepia wash. Light dry brush bleached bone. Very light dry brush of white to just barely pick up a highlite or 2.

**Yojiro**

Prime black
Snakebite leather undercoat,
overbrush bubonic brown,
drybrush Bleached bone,
Light Devlan mud wash,
drybrush Bleached Bone again (or edge highlight)

**Flinty**

Yell "Klaata, Veratuu, mubmlemumble" and see what comes up