I'll update this thread soon with new pictures including my new Carnosaur and a ninja Skink. I also just picked up a bargain Slann from a local wargaming expo (£15, metal in shrink-wrapped box!).
As for water effects, I've had mixed results too. I've used the liquid PVA stuff (usually called 'realistic water' I think) on the bases of Tetto Eko's Skink guard

Very impressive, you have a style which is very much like Duncan Rhodes, very crisp and sharp highlights.
Is Duncan Rhodes the guy that does the tutorial videos on the GW site? If so I'm not a fan, I cringe when I watch those.
In all fairness though I always recommend them to newbies, and wish they were around when I first started all those years ago.
I've always aspired to the 'Eavy Metal style, and learned most of what I know from when they did those White Dwarf tutorials. At my best I try to aim to emulate Darren Latham or Anja Wettergren. I had a chance to talk with Anja at one Games Day and she gave me some great tips.
I'm just getting back into the hobby after a good few years (I mostly just painted the models for fun, and maybe someday I'll be as good a painter as you and half the other posters on the site), and I've always had a similar gripe with the carnosaur having such short jaws, especially the new model. How did you go about lengthening the jaws? Was it just cut + sculpt in the gap areas, or were other parts used?
Sweet, I'll have to get some practice with green stuff in between now and the nebulous future when I can afford a carnosaur. A bit off-topic, but do you have any basic advice/links to resources regarding sculpting with green stuff or epoxy putty? I was quite young when I was originally into the hobby and mostly just painted already built models for myself or for my brother and his friends, so I have very little knowledge about conversions and the like.