{"id":28,"date":"2024-06-06T15:35:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T14:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/?p=28"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:10:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:10:41","slug":"they-are-all-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realityshift.org.uk\/miniature-battles\/they-are-all-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"…They are all perfect. Painting Warhammer Old World: Tomb Kings Skeles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My go to method with skeletons has been, since the days of the first Warhammer PBS1 Skeleton Horde box<\/a> , 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n