I'd say white.

 

black and you work up the bone.

this is how i do mine bone
1 base black
2. rebased on parts you want bone with codex gray
3. add 1 part brown (any you want depending how bright you want it) to 2 to 3 parts bleach bone
4. then just start working up the bone in light coats.

if you want i will put a pic of it up

 

Thanks for the mini tutorial inquisitor me, could you put a pic up so I can see if it's the kind of bone I'm thinking of.

 

I'd say white, wash sepia, highlight bone then skull white.
Mileage may vary.

EDIT - Found it: Like this

 

idk, i have always primed black and worked up for lighter colors

 

Black and work up. And the new foundation paints are dah best for working up imo

 

^what he said. grab yoursefl some dehnab stone foundation and spray black then base with the dehnad. It covers so well and the light colors you put over it will pop just like they would with a white undercoat.

 

white under coat for bone every time

 

I'd start it from black. Start it with Scorched Brown, then a layer of 50/50 Scorched Brown and Snakebite Leather (which sounds like it might be close to Bestial Brown, but it really isn't), then a pure layer of Snakebite, followed by a layer of Bleached Bone, highlights of 50/50 bleached bone and white; and edge highlights in pure white.

You'll always get more definition from a black undercoat, in my experience-- from white, it's ultimately an exercise in going back and lining-in details and using glazes to get shading, which is a lot more time-consuming to get right than just doing a several-stage layering method.

 

I'd go with Servicestud on this. White undercoat, Sepia wash, then keep layering on thin coats of bleached bone, leave the sepia in the creases of the armour, final higlights with a bleached bone/skull white mix. The end effect is really nice.



EDITED [Skull Shite is not a colour]