A recipe used to paint traditional bone colours
Basecoat
- Use Ushabti Bone , using several thin coats as needed.
Shading
- Begin with an all over shade of Agrax Earthshade mixed with Contrast Medium at about 1:3 parts.
- Repeat the previous layer, but work only into the recesses
- Using Snakebite Leather mixed with Contrast Medium , build up darker areas in the deepest recesses and to the sides of raised points
Highlights
- Use Ushabti Bone to establish edges. Keep the paint thin to allow the paint to blend
- Thinner highlights with Screaming Skull
- Final spot highlights with Screaming Skull with White Scar mixed (about 1:1 but you can add more or less depending on where on the model)
Glaze
- One very final glaze over all of the bone, using Contrast Medium with a tiny spot of Snakebite Leather in (as if the Contrast Medium is simply contaminated). This provides and even finish and ties the colours together.
Highlight
- Highlight the uppermost points with tiny dots of White Scar , which you can add some Screaming Skull to if you wish to be less stark. Focus only on highest points.
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