Whilst skulking around my piles of figures, looking for old Warhammer Skeletons to press gang into my new Egyptian Undead mini project, I came across some sprues of Warhammer Lizardmen that had remained forlornly in a box of bits for many, many years.
 |
| Completed Unit of 14 x Lizardmen |
Mixed amongst them were a also a few Beastmen, these need some more work to pull together into a presentable unit for the challenge - need to find a lot more bits in the bowels of the plastic pile - but hopefully there'll be something to see in a few weeks time...
 |
| Another view |
So what we have here is 14 x Lizardmen, including a Standard Bearer and a Musician, I must assume the Leader for the unit is around somewhere but to date (well over the weekend) I could not find him.
 |
| Unit's Standard Bearer and Musician |
My guess is that these figures have been languishing near the bottom of the pile for about 16 or 17 years, time enough to give them a nice lick of paint...
I opted for a Green and Ochre colour scheme for these creatures, highlighted with red accessories and a lavish amount of 'old' gold for decorations, along side various more natural spikey bits on their shields. The weapons I'd keep muted, with black spear shafts and a slate grey blade, with a shiny silver cutting edge!
 |
| Three of the Lizardmen - more close-up view... |
As usual I undercoated in white before painting the creature's under bellies an ochre colour, then I used a bright green to do their upper halves and some smaller scales that extent along their limbs into the more general ochre areas.
 |
| Three more lizardmen |
Their mouths got a red wash and teeth highlighted white, spikes along their back were done in natural pale ochre colour, some were capped with golden ornamentations. A Dark Tone wash was applied all over.
 |
| Shields were painted on the sprue |
I left the shields on the sprue and painted these red with gold trim and 'natural' horn spikes where needed, these were washed with black ink. Where I have to dos a lot of similar shields I often leave them on the sprue to get a consistent feel and then superglue them in place when ready.
This approach also means I can be painting the shields whilst the figures are drying and vice versa.
 |
| Final view of the scaly creatures |
I have deliberately left the figures with a gloss finish as I wanted to convey that they are wet, I need to figure out some way of reflecting this on the bases - i.e. puddles of water etc.
