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8th Ed. How To Paint: Lizardmen

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Does anyone have it & is it any good?

I can't get it as I don't have an IOS device and it's not available as PDF.

Does anyone know a way of getting it on a non-IOS format?
 
I bought it, and yes I think it is very good, I'm currently painting my carnosaur using the paint scheme

Here is a list of the schemes it contains

Skinks: studio blue with yellow war paint
Saurus: studio blue with black shields
Temple Guard: a darker version of the Saurus scheme
Kroxigor: studio blue with yellow war paint to match the skinks
Salamanders: bright orange/yellow
Terradons: swampy green
Bastiladon: solar engine variant, orange body with black carapace & 'sound wave' pattern
Stegadon: bolt thrower varient, green body with bright orange trim
Slann: green body with white underbelly, yellow stone palanquin
Carnosaur: purple scales, white underside and blue back ridges
Troglodon: pale aquamarine scheme

There are also mini guides at the end of each section which show 2-3 different varient colour schemes of the model they have just described with a list of colours that were used for that varient scheme.
 
You mean they're SELLING articles that used to be free PDFs on their website??
 
PlasmaDavid said:
You mean they're SELLING articles that used to be free PDFs on their website??
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I'm not sure I remember such a comprehensive painting guide for an entire army being made available for free, and the guides do make good use of the iOS platform, with full screen pictures of the models at every stage of the process and 360 spinning views of the finished model.

The lt time I remember GW making painting guides of this quality was the master class articles that used to feature in white dwarf years ago, and while WD wasn't as expensive back then as it is now it wasn't free by any means.

The guide was also relatively cheap, and I didn't mind paying it and considered it good value, I think expecting this kind of thing for free is wildly unrealistic, GW is not the friendly by-gamers-for-gamers company it was ten years ago.
 
The only reason I got the white dwarf was for the colour schemes. Ditto for tau. While the physical quality of WD has improved (paper, colours, better photos) pretty much all of it is on their website.

The guide sounds good, it's a pity I will never be able to buy it! =(
 
I remember they used to put entire color schemes and step-by-step tutorials on the GW website for some core models (they had several for my Ogre Kingdoms army). I was very frustrated when they took those down (suddenly) while I was still painting my army (novice painter here), I even e-mailed GW several times trying to get a pdf of those 2 articles (to no avail). Yes, they used to put of articles and leave them up for years for people to use. They still should.

A company that is charging an arm and a leg for their models should be helping every prospective hobbyist. If you want more customers that buy big armies, then help them out when they're getting started so they become invested in the hobby. If I were in charge of marketing of GW, I'd do things very different, and I wouldn't have to lower the prices of anything to help build the brand.
 
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