MOMUS has jungle fever!

[MOMUS]

Welcome to my Lizardmen army plog!

I have always loved lizardmen since when they first appeared (reworked) way back in an old WD. I read every bit of fluff i could find and ever since have always kept up to date with each race as the editions rolled by, even though only usually playing 40k.
With 8th im hooked all over again, several members of my local club have started fantasy armies and ive decided to join them by creating a southlands list.

Heres a plog that inspires me to paint better
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=208236

This lot cost me ~£40 +postage on ebay.

From left to right
Three unopened boxes of 10 oop skinks, bag of shields, 5 camo skinks, 37 oop skinks, 2 skink baves, 1 kroxigor, 1 slann (no palanquin), 1 priest, box containing 20 oop skinks, 6 skink standard bearers, 20 oop skinks, jungle swarms, 3 terradons with riders, 1 skink chief, 5 skinks drummers, 3 horned ones with riders. Phew!

Some close ups

The horned ones will be counts as salamanders, the terradons need a bit of stripping.


Standard bearers and drummers


Krox, slann and swarms. I am going to make a primitive palaquin using a rock for the slann, he is missing an arm which may mean i do some green stuff to him.


Camo skinks, priest, braves and my chief. He is hands down my favourite model in the army so far.


Lots of skinks all ranked up, bless their cuteness.

Death to the dryskins!

[thesheriff]

Bargain. if i do say so myself. Looking forward to this log.

thesheriff

[Stempe]

So do I! *subscribed*

[N810]

Looks like a nice 5th edition army you got there.

[MOMUS]

High praise indeed! Cheers guys

Test mini PIP

Im going to be painting about 100 of these guys, to mark different units i will give the crest colour variation.

As most of my army is from the classic range, i thought i might aswel do a classico paint scheme. Im thinking of a badab wash, although this mini is without the white undercoat so will probably come out a little too dark. I will do both to see which looks better.

[castellanash]

Suppose I'll follow this one too mate Nice test scheme If you think 100 is a lot though don't look at my Skaven army... haha, as to wash why not use Asurmen Blue? It'll give a nice blue tinge to the crest too

[drear]

id be tempted to use a purple wash over it, but then i think purple wash looks great on anything..except purple!

[castellanash]

id be tempted to use a purple wash Devlan Mud over it, but then i think purple wash Devlan Mud looks great on anything.. except purple!

Much better :P Everyone knows that Devlan Mud is the universal wash... But Asurmen/Purple could work depending on how deep you want the blue to go

[thesheriff]

Much better :P Everyone knows that Devlan Mud is the universal wash... But Asurmen/Purple could work depending on how deep you want the blue to go

I'm gonna say strongly - hell no!

Delvan mud is great. It ties in highlights, gives definition and give a lovely earthy look.

A bright blue skink does bot need an earthy wash.

It needs something eye-catching, something interesting but not too different.

I reckon purple wash would be great on the blue skin and on the white frill.

Save Devlan mud for metal, wood and bone. You need something really stand out on the skin.

[Brother Alexos]

MOMUS has jungle fever!

At least it isn't yellow fever. This would be a whole different thread, otherwise.

I like your lizardmen. Especially the fact they're the older versions. I always like old models.

[Complicity]

I'm gonna say strongly - hell no!

Delvan mud is great. It ties in highlights, gives definition and give a lovely earthy look.

A bright blue skink does bot need an earthy wash.

It needs something eye-catching, something interesting but not too different.

I reckon purple wash would be great on the blue skin and on the white frill.

Save Devlan mud for metal, wood and bone. You need something really stand out on the skin.

I have to agree, although i will say that I think they'd look great with brown and green washes on their feet and legs to make them look as though they had just emerged from a swamp, but otherwise vividly coloured. Who says you have to do them all the same colour though? how about use different washes for some variation, maybe apply them to different areas of the units too? Uniformity of colour is nice but I imagine a bunch of skinks would have a reasonable amount of variation.

[azhagmorglum]

You know, I love those old skinks, in fact I prefer them from the new ones. I like the paint scheme you chose for them, and I can't wait to see more of your work

[MOMUS]

Thanks for the feedback everyone! Here was me thinking nobody liked lizardmen

I will be off down the shop to pick up Delvan mud, Asurmen blue, Snakebite leather and i already have Leviathan purple. Any other colour recommendations?

[IGoblinego]

For your jungle fever, I advice more cowbell

For thread, I wish you good luck and awesome painting!

[N810]

I find Griffin tone Sepia almost as useful ad Delvin mud....

[MOMUS]

Hey all
I havent managed to get to the shop yet, but did get some paint on. Im still just focusing on the skin tone as i want to get it just right.

So far i have painted 8 skinks, four with white undercoat and four without. Below i have washed two of each with Leviathan purple, the other two will get Asurmen blue to see which is better. The light isnt good here at the moment so these pictures are a bit dark.





Without undercoat:


With white undercoat:

[MOMUS]

Bit more sun in these pics, probably the best i will get today.

With undercoat:




Without undercoat:

[MOMUS]

On the painting 'table' at the moment

[MOMUS]

So real life as been pretty busy in the last few weeks of term, now its the summer holidays i got to sort out some lizardmen stuff.

I got these bases from ebay:



The rocky bases will be used for kroxigor and terradons and the temple bases will be used for the more sacred beasts in my army such as the salamanders and slann. Speaking of the slann, he needs alot of work. I need to greenstuff feet, an arm and find a suitable rock for him to sit on (which will float above his base).



I used my small power drill to make a hole in the base, im not sure what kind of resin this is but seemed really sturdy when i drilled it.



And the salamanders on the temple bases. Thinking of a (bright) yellow colour scheme for these guys with black scales.

C&C welcome.

[Elfboy]

Good start, can't see too much difference between undercoated skinks and non-undercoated skinks. Love the models you have used for the salamanders. Think they're better than the plastic cold ones for lizardmen atm.