Blog William's 5th edition lizardmen painting journey

Glad you were able to get a game in, the army is really coming along great!

Great looking unit, love how you painted the helmets!

 

Gave them all a good flocking, but something went wrong. I stacked on the flock thick but not much of it stuck to the base and looks a little bare and shiny, will have to re-do it.. ugh :/





So, now I am on to SKINKS, they all took a lot longer than I thought they would, lots of tiny details and things where I wasn't quite sure what it was meant to be due to the sculpt. I had a lot of trouble with green and couldn't quite get a good shade for a long time. The paint layer is probably too thick, considering I didn't strip and just painted on top, but I am now reasonably happy with the result, especially with the final layer of bright green and yellow mixed.

The before



And the now.. basically a lot more luminous!

 

There updated and bright colors look good, big improvement!

 

I played a game with them the other week. Dragon Rampant! My poor lizards were soundly defeated... probably because I haven't fully painted all the skinks yet.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/1xL1Hf8q71Qee4aU8

 

Nice looking photos!

While the minis themselves do look fantastic of course, I can't help but wonder if the units got light or heavy cover from hiding behind those haystacks

 

Haha, neither! They were objectives that had to destroyed.

I am currently working on these flyers, mostly just painting ontop of ancient paintwork.. should be OK, though I am not quite sure how to make the wings look good without any kind of green ink.

 

Some ink or a wash should help? They seem to have a lot of texture.

 

Calling it done with these terradons

 

Lovely!

 

Very nice terradons! What kind of bases are they getting?

 

Here we go, they are flying on the standard GW flying base. I inserted some greenstuff within the hole on the model, which helps a lot in terms of keeping it stable.

 

Wow they look fantastic! Great to see the flock all finished and swooping around next to your terrain