Bones 3 & Bones 4 Miniatures: Bone White!

White is the color of sugar and cotton and flour and paper after you bleach out all the nutrition, lignin, and other natural goodness out of them.  Similarly, after you remove all the meat and blood and guts and other good things out of a person, you're left with a white, white skeleton (DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME, by the way).

So for white, inspired by Halloween, I painted skeletons.  Bones 4 only included 6 skeletal creatures, so I included 6 skeletal characters from Bones 3.

In the front, we have the Bones 4 Bog Skeletons and the Maggotcrown Ogre Juggernaut.  Any evil necromancer will tell you that you can never have too many skeletons to do your bidding.

Real bog skeletons turn black from tannins in the bog water,
but that would be hard to see and it would look just plain weird.

In the back, we have the Bones 3 Undying Lords boss skeletons.  I have to wonder if these guys were once an adventuring party.

That's the Grim Reaper in the back, waving.  "I'll be seeing you!"

You might notice that the arms and armor used by these skeletons have a brownish hue.  In D&D 3.5, skeleton monsters are basically mindless automatons which fight until they are destroyed.  I imagine they don't care much about the state of their equipment.  I tried to imagine their metal equipment had a good deal of rust on them, but the rust would wear away at edges, joints that would grind together, and points of impact.  So I tried to put down a rusty steel color, then I would dry-brush the high-wear areas with a bright steely color.  On the Juggernaut, I added extra brown rusty splotches to the rusty base coat.