Arli's Painting Log

[Arli]

I decided to start a painting log for my army(ies). What I am doing first is listing what needs to be painted/repaired. Once I get that done, I will begin the repairs. I am going to start with Lizardmen as it was my first army. I will follow that up with Ogres, Vampire Counts, and Orc & Goblins (in that order). I have not decided yet fully on the timeframe. I may do a unit from each army in order to keep from getting burned out.

Anyway, here is the start:

Lizardmen (to be painted/repaired)

77 Skinks Primed white-ish (some have red under the white). My skinks are all white. heroes and Lords are red.

20 chameleons (19 plus Oxytyl, 7 primed white, 13 washed green)

18 Saurus (primed white) These will be red.

4 Temple guard (converted from saurus, primed white) these will be Purple.

2 razordons with 6 handlers painted in a way that I can proxy them as either razordons or salamanders.

6 Cold One Cavalry (Primed white)

3 Cold Ones (No rider)

4 Terradons (2 for repair and 2 primed white for painting)

1 Kroxigor (6th edition need head of axe repaired)

2 Stegadons Paint/repair

Kroak (needs repaint and some repair/paint on paliquin)

9 skink heroes (2 with cloak of feathers, cheif with warspear, EOTG priest, 2 staff priests, one old shaman, one old Tehehuin)

1 new Tehehuin (partially painted)

1 Saurus old blood

Models that I need to purchase:

Scar-vet BSB
Scar-vet on Cold One
Chakax
Lizardmen Saurus Oldblood with Hand Weapon & Shield 1

 

[Arli]

Going through some of my paints, I have found that I need to replace almost all of my GW washes. Anyway, 1st up will be the skinks! Here is a top view and a side view as they are now:

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[Old Mossy]

I'll be interested to see how long it takes you. I'm just finishing up doing 50 skinks, and I'm curious to see just how slow of a painter I am.

 

[Maazie]

I'm in the process of painting about 36 Skinks for my Skrox Unit. SOOOO Many skinks, but they will be fun once done.

 

[Arli]

I have already painted about 90 skinks. I did most of those in a sort of assembly line. Go down the line and do each color on all of them. I do not remember how long it took. I know that I based those in about 3 hours or so though.

 

[Arli]

77 washed skinks! This took about 2 hours and almost a full pot of devlin mud wash. Next up, dry brushing some white onto the scales on their backs and fins.

Top view washed:


Side view washed:


Front view washed:

 

[Lord Tsunami]

looking cool so far

 

[Arli]

Here is a small update. I have applied a white heavy dry brushing to the skinks. I also have applied foundation yellow to the shields, hand weapons, and anything that will be gold. Here is a pic of two fo them. They are still in need of touch up work, so bear with me.



I also realize that I need another light source. I took three pictures of these two skinks. 2 of them were tinted with yellow light and the last is the one above.

Next up, painting all the wooden surfaces (javelins, blowpipes, dart, etc.).

 

[FavoredoftheOldOnes]

Damn, thats a lot of skinks! Good luck! I will keeping an eye on this thread.

 

[T`hinker`er]

I've got 50 skinks at home that need to get beyond mere base coat. Hoping this will inspire me too. Keep up the good work, you machine you!

 

[Arli]

It took about 90 minutes to do just the base yellow last night. Then, the first two models that I picked out to take pictures of had missing details! DOH! By then, my wet pallet was empty and I was needing a break. So, I will hit those up tonight.

My overall plan is to do something to the lot of them each day. I am hopping to get a rhythm going and power through. I do not feel like working on them every night, but I am going to try.