For those that have been following the last couple of posts and my attempt to paint the Wizkids Rather Big Skeleton Dragon will know I wanted to do something outside of my comfort zone for the base.

I had the idea that the base would look cool with some skulls on it. You know like the remains of previous victims.

My memory recalled that there was indeed a product out there in the big wide world that was just skulls. I’d seen it on the shelf of my FLGS.

After a brief google search I found what I was looking for, and I had indeed remembered correctly. Within minutes the box of skulls was ordered and on its way.

With the skulls in my grubby mitts this morning (the joys of next day delivery) I knew I wasn’t going to do the base in a style similar to the box cover.

I chose a range of different sized skulls and therefore species that I glued to the base in some sort of “pleasing way”. Ok there was no real plan for their placement.

Once dry I applied a white primer, which then also had a skeleton bone colour base coat applied over top of that when that had dried.

The knowledge that I will eventually be applying a flock to hide the mess on the base is comforting.

Now I need to do some more waiting before I can do the wash.