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Acrocanth said:
Package arrived today full of something I haven't seen in a long time... blisters!
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And my favourite out of print model I never owned the Champion Javelin Skink :D I don't think anyone else has the same love I do but I'm really glad I got this one. They're on my back burner for now but I have 21 metal 5th ed Javelin skinks. Going to paint them up with a 5th ed kroxigor or 2 at some point
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Nothing like opening a parcel and seeing the thing you loved staring back at you (I should really stop wrapping the wife up)
 
I really like your Oxyotl, the stripe scheme looks pretty good on him!
 
Had some time to chekc your pics on PC right now (economy lesson! :meh:) really like your Oxyotl! and im looking forward to see the skink chief... need som inspiration for mine! :D
 
So it took a while but I finished my saurus unit and hero. Sometimes its hard to stay motivated and they've never been the most appealing unit in the lizardmen range. Here are some closeup pics of my old blood and one of the overall unit. I decided I'd tie them to the troglodon through the standard, painted in similar colours and the eyes taken off. As is tradition the bases still need work, think I might try one of the texture paints and see how that goes... IMAG0214.jpg IMAG0215.jpg IMAG0219.jpg IMAG0220.jpg
 
Nice work... those two main colours work really well together.
 
Real nice colors. I love how they work together, but I already said that...
Any ideas how will you base them? Something fancy or the normal stuff?
Really like your clean painting!
 
The colors do go really well together. Great looking models so far. My only suggestion (and this is being very critical) is to add a different color, or shade, to the scales to give the models more contrast. Amazing work so far!
 
Jorgik said:
Any ideas how will you base them? Something fancy or the normal stuff?
Really like your clean painting!
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I have to admit I've never really gotten into anything too fancy for basing, when I was younger a coat of goblin green was all I'd really do.

I'm thinking of buying one of the citadel texture paints and trying it out on them.If I like the effect I might keep it up for more models if not they can just be their own thing and I can try something else out another time.

mousekiller said:
The colors do go really well together. Great looking models so far. My only suggestion (and this is being very critical) is to add a different color, or shade, to the scales to give the models more contrast. Amazing work so far!
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I decided I wanted the magenta's to get more attention without overwhelming the models. So in the end I kept the contrasts on the rest of the scales low. It's still there but I agree it is much lower contrast then many paint schemes I've seen.
 
Damn, I love me some purple-ish pink lizards! They look really good actually!
 
Very nice painting and very coherent colours, that works out pretty well :)
as for @mousekiller 's idea, I may have another suggestion: @Acrocanth if you do feel like your scheme has lower contrast than usual on miniatures and it's a problem (which also depends on how far you want/like them to be seen from…), have you considered simply adding some highlights to the bronze/brass parts? i guess that could give them a little bit more contrast but not too much.
Anyway your painting is pretty refined, enjoyed looking at the minis so please keep em coming! :snaphappy:
 
@Toltecatl
There is some metal highlighting I just don't think my cell phone camera likes the metal paints that much :P. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out, I just know that there is limited contast between the teal skin and the blue scales but it was a choice I made.

I think my next project will be some of my old archer skinks while I think over colour schemes for my other minis. I keep coming back to this garter snake ( http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web04/2012/2/26/2/enhanced-buzz-11512-1330241031-80.jpg ) and I think I'll probably riff on it again for my first batch of archers. It was previously some of the inspiration on the old Tenehuini model I posted earlier and I think I want to dabble in that space again. My poison arrow frog (http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/...phibians/H-P/poison-dart-frog-orange-blue.jpg) skink handlers didn't quite come out how I'd hoped but that would be a similar space to consider dabbling in.

Probably work on a couple prototypes in the near future, might also post some of my more modern skinks at some point.
 
Acrocanth said:
@Toltecatl
There is some metal highlighting I just don't think my cell phone camera likes the metal paints that much :p.
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my bad, cameras are def no loving friends of metal paint ^^ as i said they look awesome this way (and you have awesome precision) so kudos..
 
Old grade school work goes in red crested skinks come out...IMAG0226.jpg
Should probably have stripped them if I was being a proper painter... but paint, wash, highlights gets enough of the detail and my hundred or so skinks don't call for too much fanciness so much as an assembly line of acceptable quality.
 
Love the painting line XD!!
It looks like they walk as they get painted :joyful:
 
Love the color scheme of those saurus, keep the good work!
 
Just a little update on my skinks they are mustering nicely. Nothing too fancy but still some decent work I think. Something different then what most people are up to anyway :pIMAG0238.jpg
 
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