First Lizard - test model

[Rebel]

Hey guys my first post!

Here is my first Lizardman model for my army. I'm just testing out colour schemes right now so my apologies if the painting is less-than-acceptable. I used the standard GW saurus scheme, but changed the scales to purple instead of blue because blue skin with blue scales in my opinion is a bit boring

So without further ado here are the pics







Comments and Criticism welcome and also, can anyone tell me how to highlight metallics? For the gold I just painted shining gold, the a wash of ogryn flesh, then painted the raised areas shining gold again, but it doesn't really look very good. Thanks in advance

Rebel

 

[Chamen]

Would propably be worth a try to paint that whatever area those spikes come out from on that sword with black, would propably get a nice look with black and grey spikes, up to you tho..

 

[Nakai]

I really like the grey on the weapon maybe just a light wash with something to bring out the detail in it a bit though? still looks great keep'em comin

 

[asrodrig]

I usually paint gold by first painting it with Shining Gold, then a wash of Devlan Mud, then a highlight with Burnished Gold and a final highlight of a 1:1 mix of Burnished Gold and Mithril Silver.
I agree with Nakai - if you give the gray areas on the sword a wash of Badab Black, it'll look a lot better.
Other than that, it's a really good model! Keep up the great work!

 

[Guardian of Hexoatl]

Looks great so far. Just take the advice everyone else has given to you and it'll look amazing

 

[Eagleblaze]

For mine it's Chainmail/Highlight Mithril Silver/Wash Gryphonne Sepia x2 (or even x3) - For the stone I do an Adeptusbattlegrey coat followed by fortress grey drybrush and badab black wash.

 

[Skink priest of Lore]

Nice. i will put mithril silver on the spickes and will paint the other shining gold and chaos black