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I've finally realised that, despite my best efforts, I just can't paint this texture very well.

I've tried starting with scorched brown, followed by bestial then vomit and finally bleached bone, but it simply doesn't look right.

Any tips?

base of bleached bone, wash of chesnut or brown
drybrush or blend with base color and add white and more and more

chestnut wash (thinned down) works nicely to blend in the colours I find.. plus I often finish with a thinned down white on very prominent areas (teeth, area of skull above the eye sockets) to give a polished look...

in fact thats depend if u want nice polished skel (norse teknik) or buried look (add more dirty wash, brown, dark green)

hum i cant translate my idea

As said before - it depends upon if you want a clean or dirty (freshly dug up) look.

Dirty look - Black Primer, brown of your choice, bone, chestnut wash, bone, and then white

Clean look - Black Primer, bone, chestnut wash, bone, and then white

Thin the Chestnut Wash (Flesh Wash works too btw).

The washes have a tendency to make the figure look 'shiny', which is good if you like the fresh out of the ground feel. If you don't like that, cover it with a matte varnish.

Cheers,
Torpor

As said, depends upon clean or dirty.

Dirty - white basecoat, 50% brown 50% yellow ink mix washed over this, then drybrush up with orc brown, bleached bown and skull white, finally paint the teech white

Clean - beastial brown basecoat, layering up through snakebite leather, bronzed flesh, bleached bone and skull white

Orinoco

What they said. I did a team and 2 boosters worth of Khemri using:
1.White Primer
2. Bleached Bone base
3. Brown (bestial I think) wash
4. Bleached Drybrush
5. 50/50 Bone/White Drybrush
6. White highlights

But then again I was going for hte left in teh desert sun & sand look. If you're doing a more norhtern/Empire looking Skeleton then Id drop most of the bleached and make it as they said... Dirtier.

The methods I use:

Dirty look a.k.a. speed paint:
Scorched brown, wetbrush bestial brown, wetbrush snakebite, drybrush bubonic brown, blend bleached bone
or
Scorched brown, blend graveyard earth, blend comando khaki, layer bleached bone

Clean look:
Scorched brown, layer vomit brown, blend bleached bone
or
Scorched brown, blend bestial brown, blend bleached bone

Bleached by a desert:
Codex grey, layer fortress grey, layer elf grey (or ghostly grey), blend skull white

Nurgly bones:
Scorched brown, layer vomit brown, blend rotting flesh
or
Scorched brown, blend bestial brown, blend rotting flesh

Anyone else notice how his quick paint method has the most steps to it? That Nurgle Rot's finally gotten into 'is 'ead. Poor boy.

Nope, the speed paint method is all flat colours over each other, the others are careful blends. Shame on you and an oozing boil for good measure!