Flesh and Bone
Information
Extremely versatile, painting-focused course for your flesh and bone needs. We propose a copious amount of recipes ranging from fast and easy to more advanced.
Course Maker: Zatcaskagoon Miniatures
Number of Videos: 10 Episodes
Total Runtime: 126 minutes
Level: Beginner, Intermediate to Advanced
You’ll Learn: Painting Techniques | Surface Finish Variation | Weathering | Oil Application Techniques | Oil Scrubbing | Mottling | Veiny Skin Effects | Glazing
READ OVERVIEW
Human and creature flesh, bones and skulls sometimes can be daunting, but thanks to oils and enamels we can achieve far better results that give us some precious mottling, visual variety, and surface finish variation.
This course of 10 episodes teaches you how to paint skulls, alien flesh, dead skin, animal hide and many, many more recipes that will bring your miniatures to the next level.
How to Watch
Choose how to watch the Course: Download the Course and own it forever. Watch on Streaming immediately, with a Premium Account. Or check out any available Bundle options that come with our Villainy Ink enamels.
Course Curriculum
EPISODE 1 – Skulls
How to paint skulls in the grimdark style – an easy classic recipe that will serve you a thousand times. A couple of steps and they will look perfect with these techniques.
EPISODE 2 – Dead Flesh
How to paint pale dead flesh with subtle mottling. Suited for painting freshly dead bodies.
EPISODE 3 – Fast & Easy Creature Flesh
An easy general creature flesh application that you can obtain in about 25 minutes of real time painting. Effective and realistic.
EPISODE 4 – Mottled Veiny Flesh
You will learn a unique method to crack plastic surfaces and create veiny flesh. Suited for Tyranids, Xenos and more.
EPISODE 5 – African Flesh
Four steps African flesh. Achieve deep dark tones and a realistic finish.
EPISODE 6 – Realistic Animal Hides
Paint freshly tanned hide in a way that looks realistic but slightly more grim and stylized.
EPISODE 7 – Light Flesh
How to paint light flesh and facial hair with oils.
EPISODE 8 – Glazing Flesh
Learn how to control glazing on flesh to introduce interesting colorations.
EPISODE 9 – General Flesh Application
Learn how the oil scrubbing technique can change your method for painting skin.
EPISODE 10 – Final Flesh Effects
In this last episode we see how to paint final effects on skin and how to accentuate the “grimdark” feel.
Recommended Materials
MUNDANE ITEMS
- Paver Base/Tile Grout
- Cotton q-tips
- Scratching tool (airbrush needle or pointed tool)
TOOLS
- Airbrush & Compressor
- Paint brushes
- Hand drill
- Protective goggles
- Nitrile gloves
- Vortex mixer for paints
- Hair dryer
- Respirator Mask
- Odorless Mineral Spirits
- Isopropyl Alcohol 99%
- Plastic Glue
- Cyanoacrylate Glue
- PVA Glue
- Water
- Glaze Medium
PAINTS
- Acrylic Paints (Citadel, Vallejo AK Interactive)
- Acrylic Primer (Stynylrez)
- Acrylic Washes (Citadel)
- Enamel Paints (Villainy Ink, AK Interactive)
- Oil Paints (Abteilung502)
- Pigment Powders (Abteilung502)
- AK True Metals
- Molotov Liquid Chrome
- Acrylic Varnishes
- Dirty Down Rust Effect






Flesh and Bone
Extremely versatile, painting-focused course for your flesh and bone needs. We propose a copious amount of recipes ranging from fast and easy to more advanced.
