I'll try your recipe for painting skulls
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I'll try your recipe for painting skulls
As I'll be painting more skulls to decorate my Khorne warband (I mean, I got to have models for my dark elves to beat, right?), it's an interesting opportunity to try out some recipes for painting bone and/or skulls.
So I'm asking you, what is your recipe for painting skulls, or which recipe for painting them would you like me to try. I bought a bag of skulls and I'll be painting each one in a recipe given by the community.
I'll try to give close-up shots of every stage as I try your recipe.
While we may not all be as obsessed with skulls as GW, as dark elves it's quite likely we'll be painting a skull sooner or later
Perhaps we can make a short library of skull painting recipes.
Tested Recipes
Recipe 1
Source: GW tutorial on painting Blood Reavers (link will follow)
PIctures: (will follow)
Recipe:
- Basecoat: Zandri Dust
- Shade: Agrax Eartshade
- Layer: Ushabti Bone
- Highlight: Palid Wytch Flesh
To be tested recipes
Recipe 2 (not yet tested)
Source: White Dwarf #xxx
Pictures: (will follow)
Recipe:
- Basecoat: Zandri Dust
- Layer: Ushabti Bone
- Shade: Agrax Eartshade
- Layer: Ushabti Bone
- Highlight: Scar White
Recipe 3: Amboadine's skulls
- Undercoat: Abaddon Black
- Basecoat: XV-88
- First Layer: Ushabti Bone
- Wash: Reikland Fleshshade
- Second layer: Screaming Skull
- Highlight: Scar white
Recipe 4: Cult of Khaine's clean skull
- Undercoat: Chaos Black Spray
- Basecoat: GW White Scar
- Wash: Army Painter Strong Tone (Awesome Paints these)
- Drybrush: GW White Scar
- Highlight: GW White Scar
Recipe 5: Cult of Khaine's Dirty Skull
- Undercoat: Chaos Black
- Basecoat: Rakarth Flesh
- Wash: Army Painter Strong Tone (Awesome Paints these)
- Drybrush: Ushabti Bone
- Highlight: GW White Scar
Recipe 6: 6th Ed Tomb Kings
- Undercoat: skull white
- Wash: brown ink
- Drybrush: Bleached Bone
- Highlight: skull white
Recipe 7: Malys the younger
- Base: Rakarth Flesh
- Wash: Agrax Earthshade
- Highlight: Rakarth Flesh
- Final wash: Seraphim Sepia
Recipe 8: Lord Hajjij
- Base: Gorthor Brown
- Wash: Agrax Earthshade
- Layer: 1:1 watered down Vallejo Bone White
- Highlight: Bone White
Recipe 9: anthalont
- Base: Bone white
- Wash: Agrax Earthshade
- Highlight: Bone white
- Highlight: vallejo off white
Recipe 10: Gnosis
- Base: Steel Legion
- Wash: Agrax Earthshade
- Highlight: Rakarth Flesh
- Highlight: White
Recipe 11: direweasel
- Base: Vallejo Iraqi Sand
- Layered to: Reaper Master Series Creamy Ivory
- Layered to: Linen White
- Wash recessed Agrax Earthshade
- Highlight: Linen White
Recipe 12: Brad's speedy skulls
- spray black
- Drybrush: bone
- Drybrush: white.
Recipe 13: Vulcan
- Base: black,
- Drybrush: Kommando Khakhi
- Drybrush: Bleached Bone
- Drybrush: Antique white
- A touch of Skull White.
- Glaze: brown ink, thinned down
If you're after something fresher, a bit more Skull White and some strategic shading with Scab Red, Red Gore, or even Blood Red does the job. (Or 'Blood For The Blood God'...)
So I'm asking you, what is your recipe for painting skulls, or which recipe for painting them would you like me to try. I bought a bag of skulls and I'll be painting each one in a recipe given by the community.
I'll try to give close-up shots of every stage as I try your recipe.
While we may not all be as obsessed with skulls as GW, as dark elves it's quite likely we'll be painting a skull sooner or later
Perhaps we can make a short library of skull painting recipes.
Tested Recipes
Recipe 1
Source: GW tutorial on painting Blood Reavers (link will follow)
PIctures: (will follow)
Recipe:
- Basecoat: Zandri Dust
- Shade: Agrax Eartshade
- Layer: Ushabti Bone
- Highlight: Palid Wytch Flesh
To be tested recipes
Recipe 2 (not yet tested)
Source: White Dwarf #xxx
Pictures: (will follow)
Recipe:
- Basecoat: Zandri Dust
- Layer: Ushabti Bone
- Shade: Agrax Eartshade
- Layer: Ushabti Bone
- Highlight: Scar White
Recipe 3: Amboadine's skulls
- Undercoat: Abaddon Black
- Basecoat: XV-88
- First Layer: Ushabti Bone
- Wash: Reikland Fleshshade
- Second layer: Screaming Skull
- Highlight: Scar white
Recipe 4: Cult of Khaine's clean skull
- Undercoat: Chaos Black Spray
- Basecoat: GW White Scar
- Wash: Army Painter Strong Tone (Awesome Paints these)
- Drybrush: GW White Scar
- Highlight: GW White Scar
Recipe 5: Cult of Khaine's Dirty Skull
- Undercoat: Chaos Black
- Basecoat: Rakarth Flesh
- Wash: Army Painter Strong Tone (Awesome Paints these)
- Drybrush: Ushabti Bone
- Highlight: GW White Scar
Recipe 6: 6th Ed Tomb Kings
- Undercoat: skull white
- Wash: brown ink
- Drybrush: Bleached Bone
- Highlight: skull white
Recipe 7: Malys the younger
- Base: Rakarth Flesh
- Wash: Agrax Earthshade
- Highlight: Rakarth Flesh
- Final wash: Seraphim Sepia
Recipe 8: Lord Hajjij
- Base: Gorthor Brown
- Wash: Agrax Earthshade
- Layer: 1:1 watered down Vallejo Bone White
- Highlight: Bone White
Recipe 9: anthalont
- Base: Bone white
- Wash: Agrax Earthshade
- Highlight: Bone white
- Highlight: vallejo off white
Recipe 10: Gnosis
- Base: Steel Legion
- Wash: Agrax Earthshade
- Highlight: Rakarth Flesh
- Highlight: White
Recipe 11: direweasel
- Base: Vallejo Iraqi Sand
- Layered to: Reaper Master Series Creamy Ivory
- Layered to: Linen White
- Wash recessed Agrax Earthshade
- Highlight: Linen White
Recipe 12: Brad's speedy skulls
- spray black
- Drybrush: bone
- Drybrush: white.
Recipe 13: Vulcan
- Base: black,
- Drybrush: Kommando Khakhi
- Drybrush: Bleached Bone
- Drybrush: Antique white
- A touch of Skull White.
- Glaze: brown ink, thinned down
If you're after something fresher, a bit more Skull White and some strategic shading with Scab Red, Red Gore, or even Blood Red does the job. (Or 'Blood For The Blood God'...)
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Re: I'll try your recipe for painting skulls
Had to look up on the GW website as they have changed all the names and paint descriptions (when did wash become shade?)
Typically for Skulls / Bone I use the following;
Undercoat - Abaddon Black
Basecoat - XV-88
First Layer - Ushabti Bone
Wash - Reikland Fleshshade
Second layer - Screaming Skull
Highlight - Scar white
Typically for Skulls / Bone I use the following;
Undercoat - Abaddon Black
Basecoat - XV-88
First Layer - Ushabti Bone
Wash - Reikland Fleshshade
Second layer - Screaming Skull
Highlight - Scar white
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Re: I'll try your recipe for painting skulls
I have two different ways I have used in the past...
Version 1
Undercoat Chaos Black Spray
Basecoat GW White Scar
Wash Army Painter Strong Tone (Awesome Paints these)
Drybrush GW White Scar
Highlight GW White Scar
Version 2 (Dirty Skuls)
Undercoat Chaos Black
Basecoat Rakarth Flesh
Wash Army Painter Strong Tone (Awesome Paints these)
Drybrush Ushabti Bone
Highlight GW White Scar
Version 1
Undercoat Chaos Black Spray
Basecoat GW White Scar
Wash Army Painter Strong Tone (Awesome Paints these)
Drybrush GW White Scar
Highlight GW White Scar
Version 2 (Dirty Skuls)
Undercoat Chaos Black
Basecoat Rakarth Flesh
Wash Army Painter Strong Tone (Awesome Paints these)
Drybrush Ushabti Bone
Highlight GW White Scar
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Re: I'll try your recipe for painting skulls
I got me another recipe from my old TK book. It needs Brown Ink, but I still have some of that
So that puts me at 6 recipes but I have plenty more skulls! Does anyone else want to throw in their trick?
So that puts me at 6 recipes but I have plenty more skulls! Does anyone else want to throw in their trick?
I love me a bowl of numbers to crunch for breakfast. If you need anything theoryhammered, I gladly take requests.
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Re: I'll try your recipe for painting skulls
This is what I use on my beastmen:
Base: Rakarth Flesh
Wash: Agrax Earthshade
Highlight: Rakarth Flesh
Final wash: Seraphim Sepia
Base: Rakarth Flesh
Wash: Agrax Earthshade
Highlight: Rakarth Flesh
Final wash: Seraphim Sepia
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Re: I'll try your recipe for painting skulls
Not sure if you have Vallejo, it may not matter, but I've been doing bone with:
Gorthor Brown
Agrax Earthshade
1:1 watered down Vallejo Bone White
Highlight Bone White
The combination of the watered down Bone White over the Brown make a solid looking skull, in my opinion.
Gorthor Brown
Agrax Earthshade
1:1 watered down Vallejo Bone White
Highlight Bone White
The combination of the watered down Bone White over the Brown make a solid looking skull, in my opinion.
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Re: I'll try your recipe for painting skulls
I have been using two methods, they are very similar though.
One is the same as Lord hajjij's except I use Vallejo Off White as final highlight.
And second is like
Bone white Base
Agrax Earthshade
Bone white highlight
And vallejo off white (I think a few times I have used pallid wych flesh instead of off white, but I usually go for off white)
One is the same as Lord hajjij's except I use Vallejo Off White as final highlight.
And second is like
Bone white Base
Agrax Earthshade
Bone white highlight
And vallejo off white (I think a few times I have used pallid wych flesh instead of off white, but I usually go for off white)
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Re: I'll try your recipe for painting skulls
Basecoat Steel Legion
Agrax Earthshade wash
Rakarth Flesh highlight
White highlight
Distinctly sombre and not yellow.
Agrax Earthshade wash
Rakarth Flesh highlight
White highlight
Distinctly sombre and not yellow.
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Re: I'll try your recipe for painting skulls
I use Vallejo Iraqi Sand as a base, then build up to Reaper Master Series Creamy Ivory and Linen White as highlights. Linen White is just not QUITE pure white, but real close.
Then I go back into the recessed areas with GW Brown Wash - Agrax Earthshade I think it's called. Then touch again a few spots with the Linen White in case raised areas aren't bright enough.
Then I go back into the recessed areas with GW Brown Wash - Agrax Earthshade I think it's called. Then touch again a few spots with the Linen White in case raised areas aren't bright enough.
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Re: I'll try your recipe for painting skulls
I may have trouble getting all those paints, but I'll see if I can get a few. Either way, that's becoming an impressive list of recipes! I'll prep the skulls and the compile the list this weekend (probably Sunday).
I love me a bowl of numbers to crunch for breakfast. If you need anything theoryhammered, I gladly take requests.
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Re: I'll try your recipe for painting skulls
Daeron wrote:I may have trouble getting all those paints, but I'll see if I can get a few. Either way, that's becoming an impressive list of recipes! I'll prep the skulls and the compile the list this weekend (probably Sunday).
Yeah sorry, I use some kind of off-the-wall paints. My paint collection is 5 or 6 companies wide, so it's kind of all over the map.
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Re: I'll try your recipe for painting skulls
How smooth do you want the finish? Personally I go for speed with skulls - spray black, heavy drybrush bone, light drybrush white.
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Re: I'll try your recipe for painting skulls
Mine is similar. Black basecoat, drybrush of Kommando Khakhi, Bleached Bone, Antique white, and then just a touch of Skull White. A VERY thin glaze of brown ink brings it all together and 'ages' it a bit so it doesn't look freshly stripped. If you're after something fresher, a bit more Skull White and some strategic shading with Scab Red, Red Gore, or even Blood Red does the job. (Or 'Blood For The Blood God'...)
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Re: I'll try your recipe for painting skulls
Whow, we have an astounding list of 13 recipes! Who would have thought?
I guess it's a bit like pancakes. Everyone has their version on it.
Well I'll start preparing the skulls and report on the progress.
I guess it's a bit like pancakes. Everyone has their version on it.
Well I'll start preparing the skulls and report on the progress.
I love me a bowl of numbers to crunch for breakfast. If you need anything theoryhammered, I gladly take requests.
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