Somewhat against my better judgement I bought a copy of Warhammer Old World: Tomb Kings of Khemri. I will probably not play the game itself but who doesn’t love a huge box of minis all shiny and bursting with possibilities on their little sprues? The minis will also be useful for many other games so I didn’t feel too bad about spending a large chunk of my gaming funds.

My go to method with skeletons has been, since the days of the first Warhammer PBS1 Skeleton Horde box , prime black, drybrush white and chuck on some brown wash of some sort to give them that aged bone look. Its quick and on the table doesn’t look too bad.

This time though I opted for a slightly different method. Prime then base coat with Army Painter Brainmatter Beige which is a great off white which I’ve been using for teeth and bones and as a base for anything white.

For the next step I couldn’t decide which version of brown wash I would use. I seem to have accumulated a few. Army Painter Quick Shade – flesh wash, mid brown wash and soft tone wash, plus some Two Thin Coats flesh wash. So in the interests of, well possibly not science I did a test of all four.

And I liked them all! So it might also look quite cool to have some variation and use them all. In case you were wondering the shield arms I left off to make them a little easier to paint. So it is sort of slap chop without the contrast/ speed paints. I might paint a couple of skeletons one with speed paints one with my “old school” method for comparison. Do you have a quick method for skeletons? Let me know in the comments.