Fred's 2014 Painting Diary

[fred.]

Glad you spotted the look I was going for 


Lizardmen on surf boards sounds good though...

[fred.]

More progress on the lizard riders - in-roads into the sea of blue.


A blue wash to the bodies, light blue and white highlights to the 'fur'. Riders painted green, and skulls on top of spears painted.

Don't know about adding a highlight to the blue lizards? Need to add yellow to the backs of the riders, and paint the spear shafts. Then getting near.

Done a bit of counting up:

22 stands of skinks (mostly painted!!!)
24 stands of saurus warriors (totally unpainted, but sorted into mixed groups of 30 for painting)
12 stands of kroxigor (base coated)
7 stands of cold one riders (+ some raptor riders 3 or 4 stands )
5 terradon riders (flyers)
2 stegadon dinosaurs
2 other dinosaurs

[jchaos79]

Impressive.
Good looking army

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Well done sir! 

[Techno]

Looking really fine, Fred !
Cheeers - Phil

[fred.]

Thank you, kind Generals.

Jchaos - I hope it will be an army soon!

[fred.]

Pretty much finished the painting on the lizard riders - but no photos, as I was taking advantage of the daylight in the conservatory this afternoon, and I have left them in there, and its too cold and dark to go and find them!!

Also made a decent start on the Big Lizards


Gone for a darker green on these (GW Scaly Green) with orange tail and head colours.

A lot of the figures have what look like obsidian swords - I'm not sure how to paint these, on a test stand I went for a pale wood and a fairly bright green. But this doesn't show up too well, either on the photo or in real life

Any thoughts on these - I'm tempted to just paint them as metal, partly so they stand out, and also because some of the figures are wearing mail, and the swords have metal hilts, so doing them as obsidian edge wooden swords feels a bit odd.

[Ithoriel]

Maybe bronze or copper if you want a more antique feel?

Obsidian itself is basically black with purplish hints, at least in my, admittedly limited, experience.

Green would be jade which is more suited for use in maces rather than blades.

[fred.]

Obsidian itself is basically black with purplish hints, at least in my, admittedly limited, experience.

Ah. That would probably explain why when I googled images earlier they were all very dark for the stones on the edges. Not sure why I had green in my head.

But I suspect a dark blackish purple isn't going to show up very well either.

A copper/bronze colour may work better.

[jchaos79]

I think Copper/bronze is a good idea. Very nice vegetation

[Techno]

I agree with the copper/bronze idea !
Cheers - Phil

[Matt J]

like these Fred.

I'd go bronze as well

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Bronze, definitely bronze.

Love the basing Fred.

[fred.]

Bronze. It is then.

Glad you like the basing, I've got a big pile of aquarium plants to cut up and stick into the bases, a bit fiddly but looks good.

[fred.]

Got the Kroxigors based up (and swords painted brass), loitering in the background are some WM knights, who were painted the other week but got based up as well today


I think these guys need some highlights adding, they look a bit dark and mono-chrome.


Also based up the lizard riders



Next step is to junglify the bases...