I painted each of these skeletons in a unique tone, to give each identical sculpt its own identity. These recipes were adapted from some found on Eavy-Archive.com.

Bone 1

1. Basecoat with 1:1 Grey Seer and Ushabti Bone .
2. Shade with Skeleton Horde . To make it more manageable, I like to thin the paint with Contrast Medium and apply with a long thin brush.
3. Further define recesses with a more selective shade of Dryad Bark . I pretty much just use this stage to separate different bones, ribs etc.
4. Highlight with a mix of your base colour and some White .
5. Finish with selective White highlights.

Bone 2

1. Basecoat with 1:1 Karak Stone and White .
2. Add some generous shading with some thin Steel Legion Drab . Glaze over add downward facing surfaces and apply as a wash over ribs and areas of high detail.
3. Shade with 1:1 Reikland Fleshshade and Seraphim Sepia . To make it more manageable, I like to thin the paint with Contrast Medium and apply with a long thin brush.
4. Further define recesses with a more selective shade of Rhinox Hide . I pretty much just use this stage to separate different bones, ribs etc.
5. Highlight with a 1:1 mix of Ushabti Bone and White .
6. Finish with selective White highlights.

Bone 3

1. Basecoat with 1:1 Karak Stone and Ushabti Bone .
2. Shade with 1:1 Agrax Earthshade and Skeleton Horde . To make it more manageable, I like to thin the paint with Contrast Medium and apply with a long thin brush.
3. Further define recesses with a more selective shade of 1:1 Black and Rhinox Hide . I pretty much just use this stage to separate different bones, ribs etc.
4. Highlight with Screaming Skull .
5. Finish with selective White highlights.

Bone 4

1. Basecoat with 1:1 Rakarth Flesh and Wraithbone .
2. Shade with 1:1 Dryad Bark and Baneblade Brown . To make it more manageable, I like to thin the paint heavily with Contrast Medium and apply with a long thin brush.
3. Further define recesses with a more selective shade of Dryad Bark . I pretty much just use this stage to separate different bones, ribs etc.
4. Glaze highlights over all exposed areas with Ushabti Bone , to add some warmth.
5. Highlight with Wraithbone .
6. Finish with selective White highlights.

Wood

1. Basecoat with Thondia Brown .
2. Drybrush exposed areas with a 1:1 mix of Thondia Brown and Steel Legion Drab .
3. Shade with Rhinox Hide in recesses and where the wood meets the skeleton.
4. With an equal parts mix of Thondia Brown , Steel Legion Drab and Administratum Grey , add fine edge highlights. This is to give the impression of woodgrain, using the drybrushing stage as guidence.
5. Increase the amount of Administratum Grey in the mix and more selectively highlight within the previous stage.
6. Finish with some very small Administratum Grey highlights.

You may want to underline well defined lines of "woodgrain" with thin lines of Rhinox Hide , to really sell the effect. This is definitely an optional step, but I think it is well worth it.

Blade

1. Basecoat with Leadbelcher .
2. Wash with Nuln Oil .
3. For the shading, I like to apply gome glazes of Wyldwood . Do thin in several passed and add a little Black to the mix in the darkest parts.
4. Highlight with Ironbreaker .
5. Add edge highlights with Silver RLM01 Metallic .