How to Paint BONE, HORNS & TUSKS | Army Painting | Our Technique Toolbox Top Tips

[@FriendlyChorf]

Mortifactors fan here. Been searching for good recipes from multiple sources to figure out what to do, and then this video gets uploaded. The holy grail here, thank you!

[@cultofpaint]

great chapter

[@mathieuboe9128]

Ah Charadon Granite, you were one of a kind, weren't you (and Mechrite Red too, we shall not forget)! While we can't get you any longer, there is an almost exact match for it though: Matt Cexwish Brown Grey (Pro Acryl).

[@angelskyd]

I really love watching your different techniques. When I read the title before the video went live, I thought “oh he’s gonna show bone. Maybe I’ll get a better idea of how he did the Ivory’ish armor on the sisters combat patrol.” Loved that ivory so much, I asked Ben to replicate it on our project. Then I watch this and I see…oh it’s not the same. Now I can definitely tell the difference between Bone and Ivory.

[@firmak2]

the horns look incredible

[@kainv.9221]

Bloody hell, those skaven horns turned out extremely interesting!

[@Wijkert]

Vizzik Skour is such a great centerpiece! Absolutely one of my favorites. I hope you find the time to finish him.

[@rhysanderson4639]

"Only a little channel" - proceeds to create some of the best painting content on all of YT

[@lukevassh7740]

I'm a fan of these kinds of specific topic vids. 👍

[@simonleach6632]

Cool video and amazing results, those horns look really good! Also, for anyone who may not have an olive drab paint, just mix yellow with black, that'll do the job!

[@tedstravels1284]

Love these little deep dive videos from Henry. Thanks, and please keep them coming!

[@angelskyd]

Those horns look amazing!

[@Fortunes.Fool.]

Those horns look real. Like actual horns, amazing work.

[@johnflynn556]

The Skaven horns look fantastic. These technical videos are great.

[@Godspeace21]

I absolutely needed this. I'm going to paint Vizzik soon and I wanted to do really well with the horns especially.

[@MiniGamerDusty]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for showing and explaining how you had loaded your brush. That's so handy and it's missed in so many other painting tutorials.

[@jmarsh1827]

I love the deep dives like this. The rust and corrosion series you made was one of my favorites, I reference it all the time!

[@totallycarbon2106]

I love this style of toolbox video! Learning techniques for realistically representing the sort of different materials you see on minis like bone, skin or leather is super helpful and helps teach observational skills - how to go from reference material to miniature. Also it reminds me of youtube master Vincey V! This was a really good tutorial, thanks.

[@tony_ellis]

Nice work Henry - MAN that Skaven model is OUTRAGOUSLY good

[@cultofpaint]

so good.

[@necromancer0616]

Great tips thanx as I am just getting back into the hobby it's good to get tips to refresh my old skills again.

[@havelock1982]

Awesome texture tutorial, thank you so much! This gives me the pussh needed to make my Felgor Ravagers a sight to behold!

[@kariko07]

I’m a total noob to painting but have stumbled onto my favourite for a skull with horns. Prime Black - airbrush Pre-shading (Grey to White) - airbrush Horns = 2 drops pallid bone to one gravelord grey (both speed paints / two light coats) Skull = just Pallid Bone - two light coats.. but second coat, flooding dark areas .. Then two sessions on dry brushing.. white base paint and pallid bone for the first pass.. in both horn and bone.. then just white on the second pass but much lighter. worked amazingly on a death knight shoulder pads that had skulls on them..

[@M0U53B41T]

really like these sorts of videos because they're not model dependant and you can use them for anything

[@MoleMantle]

Absolutely beautiful work, definitely the tutorial I will be coming back to for Abraxia when I get around to painting her!

[@anamnesisdavid2918]

Considering I have this exact mini (warcrow orc not skaven, no no) waiting on my desk, this is perfect timing ! Love it

[@rrphillip]

love this format, and also I love to hear how you do it. I have a model that I shelved because I did not know where to begin on the massive amount of bones. This gave me some ideas to work with. Might finally break him out again.

[@NYIKAZENO]

Super useful content. Thanks! this makes mw want to go out and paint Osiarchs!

[@Vorpal_Wit]

Just a little info that might give you some ideas - horns aren't bone, but a layer of keratin over a live bone growth. Its the same stuff that makes up hair and nails, or hooves. Theoretically any color that hair present in an animal species may be present in the keratin, but its translucent and so the solid bone and blood underneath it influences that color. The tips are almost always darker than the body of the horn because the keratin has different properties when the animal is young and horns grow from the base. They often grow paler with age. Hope that helps spark some ideas.

[@cultofpaint]

@@Vorpal_Wit thanks!

[@theresabellflower8123]

Thanks for the tutorial. I’m just learning to paint miniature. I started late in my life. But I hope to get better.

[@cultofpaint]

welcome to the hobby!

[@abelbabel8484]

That's fantastic, hope you have much joy with this wonderful creative hobby 😁

[@Matcapoeira86]

Absolutely brilliant video, really like the effect you created on the bones there.

[@Wijkert]

16:19 love it!! I have swatches for all my paints too.

[@TheMiniatureDoctor]

The palette and brush unloading explanation is great. Never see that demonstrated

[@Pennywhen]

Love the deep dive style vid, amazing results and does seem very fun technique to lose yourself in.

[@shogunnate7724]

Good stuff! 👍 I've been looking for a video over more greenish-brown bones for a skeleton giant. Thank you for the video!

[@TheMiniJunkie]

Man - those horns look incredible

[@zhdirjfnfb]

You should make stickers of the cult of paint logo that comes up when you say “let’s paint”, I’d buy that!

[@kendrickwhite4868]

Totally worth a sub, you guys rock

[@Kimtanashino]

That's amazing ! Thanks you !

[@VenGardGator]

I always paint my bones fairly cleanly, either a bleached or yellowed bone colour. This is a very cool appearance and I'll have to give this a go at some point

[@Fearthepudding]

Love these deep dives!

[@redboxer-ux5qw]

Been waiting to see what you do with this figure

[@Rob-Awesometon]

Id love to see some of your takes on crystals, and shiny coloured stone

[@christophwinkler9133]

Great, thanks for the video. Gave me some new ideas :)

[@WhyDoINeedAHandle__]

Really nice!

[@rubenknab2928]

The painting content is really nice, and I also really enjoy your talkshow content. Small point of note: the reference picture of the T-Rex is actually a fossil and so may not represent a realistic bone colour.

[@cultofpaint]

@@rubenknab2928 thanks. That's a very good point!

[@rubenknab2928]

​@cultofpaint I did enjoy the video very much regardless, thank you! I'm curious when you are going to continue the black templars army, I finished painting mine only yesterday!

[@cultofpaint]

@@rubenknab2928 I've got a dreadnought video lined up for about a month's time. Then it's the Emps champ. They'll be done by Xmas

[@bryanbosse5513]

Absolutely brilliant and helpful video

[@jonathanparker4559]

Superb video, gonna have to give this a try

[@redboxer-ux5qw]

The finish is amazing

[@diyfireking]

Beautiful painting 😍😍

[@abelbabel8484]

Very cool results :D

[@TheMiniatureDoctor]

The horns still at the end looks like Richard Gray 😮

[@cultofpaint]

@@TheMiniatureDoctor hah I wish!!

[@nicolaim7061]

14:19 what spray can colour would you use if don’t have a an airbrush

[@Midgar88]

Dang, ive wanted to up my bone game for ages. Praise the great horned rat! Seriously, tho cheers 🍻

[@redboxer-ux5qw]

Awesome

[@GrumpySunshineFP]

Yay my favourite sleep aid uploaded

[@janblaha3718]

Nice.

[@star_wars_miniatures]

My bone recipe is super simple! From a white scar undercoat, use Skeleton horde and you’re done! Lahmian medium wash over the top incase the contrast paint dries glossy!

[@drewbakka5265]

Have you guys done a beastman video in your catalogue?

[@cultofpaint]

Not yet. I think i'll do some when they get their journal.

[@marshallsmith501]

Epic

[@edpacca]

Really enjoyed this. Whenever I paint with a lighter "bone" coloured paint I find it gets really chalky when I water it down - is that a medium related issue? I've tried adding a little bit of matt varnish but it makes it less translucent

[@cultofpaint]

generally the lighter the colour the chalkier it can get. You could try an acrylic medium instead of water. Or just pick up a couple different brands and see which you prefer.

[@jasonmclaughlin5647]

Very nice, going to try this on the next model with bone and horns. Any chance you'll tackle fur in this type of way in the future?

[@cultofpaint]

@@jasonmclaughlin5647 yes. But we also cover it in a lot of depth on several Patreon videos.

[@jasonmclaughlin5647]

@@cultofpaint I'm a member already, got a favorite one from the past by chance?

[@cultofpaint]

@@jasonmclaughlin5647 yeah check out Elrond. Or this week's upcoming one, it's all about fur!

[@ukaszskorwider9197]

Have you considered painting any of the Ogor Mawtribes miniatures and making video of it? There' s plenty of tusks in this army😃

[@cultofpaint]

@@ukaszskorwider9197 great army. I'm looking forward to whatever they get in their next book.

[@gaijin_lfc]

I can't see real good. Is that Richard Gray over there?

[@chetmanley1885]

Bone!? BOOOOOONE!

[@JM-qz4ik]

Awesome Brooklyn 99 reference!!!

[@regularbear]

The Space Wolf in me is ready to enjoy this video

[@Haruki2009]

Are you planning on doing a mecanicum or mechanicus painting video?

[@cultofpaint]

@@Haruki2009 yep. Check out last podcast for update

[@Haruki2009]

@@cultofpaint nice

[@craigargh]

I have to paint some Chaplains so this is perfectly timed

[@Dakarus84]

My tomb kings blood bowl team will benefit from that

[@craigargh]

I've spent months wondering why my US Olive Drab looks much greener than yours. Turns out Vallejo renamed US Olive Drab to to Olive Brown and named a different paint US Olive Drab. I only realised because the numbers on the bottles are different

[@chriskowal1896]

PSA for anyone who like me struggles to find Vallejo US Olive Drab (70.889) I think this is now called Olive Brown.

[@cultofpaint]

thankyou

[@louisbriane]

How much for that Charadon Granite pot ? :)💰

[@cultofpaint]

precious

[@tebusan6217]

Good sir I'm a patreon member and I submitted a few questions/requests on your patreon messages. Hope to hear from you good sir 😊

[@Coabeous]

I've watched this four times and still can't follow what you're doing. My efforts. even trying to use the same tones and values, are not working. It's like if you don't use the same paint, the layering on the bone without a wash or glaze will not work. Then there is the choice on the horns at the end, it sounds all mixed up.

[@rhysanderson4639]

"Only a little channel" - proceeds to create some of the best painting content on all of YT

[@rhysanderson4639]

"Only a little channel" - proceeds to create some of the best painting content on all of YT

[@rhysanderson4639]

"Only a little channel" - proceeds to create some of the best painting content on all of YT

[@rhysanderson4639]

"Only a little channel" - proceeds to create some of the best painting content on all of YT