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Works like magic, honestly. In case you don't know what I'm talking about, I followed this process with a few alterations.




The basics of what I did were really the same. I decided not to do an oil wash on the base because I didn't want them to be too dark, and instead of black for the overall wash I used Starship Filth because it was what I had and I figured it would look more interesting, which for my tastes it does. Highlights on the bone were done with Screaming Skull instead of pure white, and I mixed a black ink/silver metallic paint for the spear blades because I didn't want them to be the same turquoise color as the armor, plus some other approximations for highlight paints instead of the exact ones Marco uses because buying the inks for this was expensive enough, and I don't think he's ever clear on what contrast paints he used for the leather and the wood, so I went with Darkoath Flesh on both first, which was too light, and so I did a second pass on the wood with Militarum Green and Aggaros Dunes on the leather, which worked out well, and that's what I'm doing now. Oh, and Typhus Corrosion instead of the AK texture paste.

I really can't recommend this enough if you're starting a SBGL army and have a lot of skeletons to paint. More than anything because the process is actually fun. Getting the red contrast paint on the cloaks is a bit tedious and time consuming, but the rest is all easy, fast and satisfying and the end result looks really good.

I'm now developing oil and contrast-based approaches for the entire rest of this army project, partly based on the rest of Marco's Cursed City tutorials, but I'll be changing things up a bit.