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Quick and easy Warhammer Skeletons

Hey everyone this is a quick-ish tutorial for painting Games Workshop skellies for AoS. I recommend pairing in blobs of 10, because if a problem happens, say with your spray or wash, less are affected, and because I did this with 20 at a time and I nearly went mad. Anyway, start by assembling your models without attaching the shields or shield arm. Also don't attach the banners to the banner bearers. Once you've done this its time to start painting.

1. Give the model a good white undercoat. Obviously don't flood your model, but make sure you get a nice thick basecoat. If its a bit thin the bone colour wont come through as well.

2. Paint all metal areas Leadbelcher.

3.Paint all the spear shafts. I alternated between Rhinox Hide and Eshin Grey for this. If you are using swords the same paints can be applied to the grips.

4. Paint all cloth Khorne Red. If you want to use the red more sparingly, use a different dark colour for the other cloth, I'd go Eshin Grey.

5. Paint all leather areas, like belts, Doombull Brown.

Wash the entire model with Agrax Earthshade. Make sure to go really heavy on the metal areas to bring out the detail and give it a dirty look.

I started basing them by painting the base with Mechanicus Standard Grey

I then used some Astroganite Debris to build some texture. While this dried I moved onto shields.

Now get all those shields you want and spray them with Leadbelcher. Paint wood Doombull Brown and some with Khorne Red (if you want) and wash it all with Agrax. Lightly Drybrush metal with Necron Compound. Do the little studs with Stormhost Silver, same goes for the studs on the spears and the rest of the models.

To quickly do the helmet horns paint them Zandri Dust, then wash them Agrax Earthshade, then use watered down Ushabti Bone to paint in streaks up to the tip, leaving the dark colours near the base.

I sprayed and washed the arms on sprue. Sure when you clip the off there will be a little bit of grey showing through but I'm a bit lazy.

Glue arms to shields

Now while the shields dry I went and washed the bases with Nuln Oil.

Finish the bases with a light drybrush of Dawnstone.

Glue on those shields.

I finished by painting the base edges with black and I use some quite watered down Baharoth Blue in the eye sockets to give a glow which helps tie the skellies with my sprits.

And that's it. Sorry if the photo quality is a bit average, but i think it gets the point across. The whole point of this tutorial is to quickly get your skeletons onto the board with a decent colour scheme and uniformity. It's way too much work to go to the effort of highlighting and detailing a horde of bones so all colours are picked because they can be washed with Agrax Earthshade. This means you don't have to be careful when washing and also means that none of the bits look older or dirtier than anything else. Don't go to the all the effort of making everything look fantastic because after doing so many of the same models it can drive you nuts and you want to prioritise centrepiece models for your attention because that's what everyone will be looking at, yourself included. If you have the time and skill (and fortitude) to spend hours on each individual model go right ahead, but painting shouldn't be a chore. 

More posts soon

Sorry about the lack of posts, last day of assessments is today and that will be me pretty much done for the year with the exception of a minor exam. Will be up and painting tomorrow with a bunch of tutorials to come. Look forward to seeing:
For 40k
- Blood Angels Stormraven tutorial
- Blood Angels Leviathan Siege Dreadnought tutorial (40k)
- A showcase of various other Blood Angels stuff if I get around to it
For Age of Sigmar
- Quick and easy skeletons tutorial
- Mannfred, Mortarch of Night tutorial
- Easy Black Knights tutorial (maybe)

That should keep me busy. Until then.