Converting Lizardmen

Well Im not very experienced on painting and I have only done some minor conversions. So the problem is this: I would want to make more unique looking lizardmen and thought I could try converting them. Any ideas/tips for this?

 

Don't have any pictures but what I did with my Saurus is take bits from the Standards - feathers, spikes, etc - as well as the shoulder pads. I made sure each one had a shoulder pad on their shield arm, and then everyone had either feathers or spikes - or some skulls which I had handy - on their heads as decoration.

 

cut the crests of the saurus like i did (check signature for pics)

 

hear hear ^^

 

I've been cutting crests off too, and I'm also thinking about taking some of the spikes off. Looking around at all of the different threads in this forum will give you a ton of examples and ideas. You could go for really unique basing and not have to worry about possibly messing up the actual model, or start with new a new pose by bending legs arms or tails, and making joins with green stuff. Or come up with some sort of armor clothing or accessories that would go along with a theme.

 

On my Saurus I'm doing some minor pose changes (move and arm here and a leg there), using basing to change the pose on some (putting rocks on some bases to make the model look like its taking cover), but mostly I'm adding necks. A tiny wad of green stuff, shape, and put some grooves in it to match the belly and that really changes the look of the Saurus in a subtle way. My whole theme is moving the army from a "dino" look to a more dragon-esque look. I've even added larger horns (from Beastman sprues I have) to the heroes to set them apart, and I'm experimenting with a kit bashed Slann.



Pyre

 

It's nothing huge, but what I've done for my Saurus Warrior Champion, is use a Temple Gaurd head, for the skull helmet.
It's a slight difference, but he looks pretty decent from the other rank and file.