Kharn's lizardmen

[Kharn The Betrayer]

I really want to do orange lizards, but am having trouble deciding scale and crest color. Any suggestions?

 

[totzro]

Orange, great color choice! ^^

I painted my scales blue/turqouise and the crests( skink ones) red, as can be seen here:


I suggest you visit this site: Color Scheme Designer. Where you can choose your primary color and see what match. Maybe this could be a good look?

 

[Kharn The Betrayer]

Hmmmm perhaps blazing orange, scab red, and golden yellow, or blazing orange, black, and scab red. (I'd like to see how black crests look). I'll have a model posted in a few days, since I will be on vacation for a few more days

 

[DanBot]

Mine are orange. The color of a dart frog. (orange with blue legs) See avatar and link below. I kept the crests blue due to lore. The fact that they said skinks have blue crests and red crests for important ones. I felt it was important to keep that.

 

[Kharn The Betrayer]

If you don't mind me asking, what color blue did you use totzro?

 

[totzro]

You know black goes very well with orange I would give that a try.

My recipe for blue is as follow:

(I prime my models white, makes the color brighter and stands out more imo)

-Basecoat of Enchanted Blue
-Heavy wash of Asurmen Blue
-Highlighting/Drybrushing with Hawk Turqoise
-Highlight/Dtybrushing with Ice Blue
-Final Highlights with Skull White (very fine)
-Sometimes a final glaze of Gulliman Blue

And in new colors that would be:

Regal Blue = Kantor Blue
Asurmen Blue = Drakenhof Nightshade (how am I suposed to tell that that's blue?)
Hawk Turqoise = Sotek Green (hmm shouldn't sotek have a, hmm maybe, a RED color...)
Ice Blue = Lothern Blue
Skulle White = White Scar

Bear in mind though that I've no experience with the new colors and the result may differ.

Hope I've been to some help

 

[Kharn The Betrayer]

You have thanks I'll paint up a handful of test models

 

[jamesjenks92]

Hi, can i ask how you did your orange. It looks really bright and would like to try something similar on Bretonnian Lord