Jolemai Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 To date, whenever I need to paint a bone style colour I use the following (classic?) recipe: Snakebite Leather Flesh Wash Bleached bone However I will soon be painting bone on a large scale and I could do with a better recipe for it. What would be a better basecoat to work up from? Grey? Replies appreciated. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/274162-bone-recipe-for-large-areas/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother dean Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 How large? Realm of Battle panels? Land raider? For the Raider I would still continue with your recipie, just use multiple thinned layers of bone to reduce brush strokes in the finished paint. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/274162-bone-recipe-for-large-areas/#findComment-3350051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolemai Posted April 15, 2013 Author Share Posted April 15, 2013 That's correct, I do mean tank sized areas. To be honest I consider that large given I normally apply bone to skulls only... Would you recommend a dry brush with bone and then layer over the top, or just multiple layers like you would in building up any other colour? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/274162-bone-recipe-for-large-areas/#findComment-3350073 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother dean Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 My own recipie is Deneb stone base (Rakarth flesh) (cause foundation paints cover the primer with one coat.) Graveyard Earth wash Several thin coats of Bleached bone (Ushanti Bone) and an edge highlight of Vallejo Ivory. But that is no different or easier than your recipie, it just matches what I have been doing for the last 5 years... http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w20/fred40k2002/Deathwing/decius114.jpg http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w20/fred40k2002/Dark%20Angels/Metalbox017.jpg Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/274162-bone-recipe-for-large-areas/#findComment-3350107 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolemai Posted April 17, 2013 Author Share Posted April 17, 2013 Cheers for that. How long did it take you to paint that Land Raider? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/274162-bone-recipe-for-large-areas/#findComment-3351494 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother dean Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 Say a week each on the outside of both of them. The green one was a new machine that I painted the interior. About a month and a half (20 hours or so) total on it, the bone one was a re-fit and took about a week or so. The longest part is waiting for your thin coats to dry, the water content takes forever to dry and unless you lie it flat it may have drips or runs in the paint... And dont get discouraged. the first coat WILL look like crap with many streaks and undercoat shining through... The third coat will look MUCH better. I think this was second coat, still some obvious flaws like the shadowing at the top of the front left vane and towards the bottom of the same vane and a shadow in the middle of the far left vane http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w20/fred40k2002/Dark%20Angels/firstsquad015.jpg Anything that ran into the low spots got re-touched with another very careful wash of brown. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/274162-bone-recipe-for-large-areas/#findComment-3351801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmo Posted April 20, 2013 Share Posted April 20, 2013 The easy option is to base in bone with Army Painter Skeleton Bone Colour Primer Spray This is how I did this LR then just highlighted/inked/weathered over the top. Lots quicker http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2012/329/d/3/deathwing_landraider_crusader_by_elmo9141-d5m4mbb.jpg Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/274162-bone-recipe-for-large-areas/#findComment-3353568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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