hi this is my first post. so my army i wanted to have my lizards all very natural looking so a palette of greens browns and other lizard colourations were in order. my friends and i seem to talk a long time to paint our minis but i think im starting to fall out of that rut. so here i have my slann and my temple guard champ neither are totally done and i am looking for a bit of help and comments. for the champ i have tried to make him lighter than the saurus in my army to show their age and what not as with this i feel the colour is starting to become to close to the skull on his head and maybe not enough variation in colour on his back. tell me what you guys think it will be appreciated it says when i try to upload my pics from photobucket that my pics cant be wider than a pixel can anyone help thanx Deathguard
Well, welcome to the site, first of all. I suggest you post some pictures, so we can see what you've come up with so far, and then we'll be able to tell you how you might be able to achieve the look you're going for. Generally speaking, if you want a model to be lighter colored, you use lighter paints. For example, if you normally use Knarloc Green as your main color, then perhaps switch to Gretchin Green instead for the older Saurus.
i did try posting as i said in the first post it tells me i can only upload pic with a width of a pixel which doesnt make sense
this is the best i could get if any one can help to display the pic right on the forum that would be helpful. ive posted pics on forums befor but it is not working the same way.
What a lovely slann. The turquoise really works well against the gold and muted natural stone and flesh.
Their is a annouments called "posting images" in the lizardmen conversions section. This help me understand how to post my pics in step by step form. Hope this helps.
Edit or quote your post and have a look at the tags I used, that is what you need to do to post pics. They look good, I really like the Slann. He has a very natural feel to him, great work.
The only thing I'm not sure on is the gold on the temple guard model and the bases, so many people don't seem to put much work on the bases on this site. Other than that they look great.
Give the metal a wash or two of devlan mud, then highlight it with a mix of whatever gold you used mixed with a bit of mithril silver.
hmm thats exactly what i did plus a wash of green for the oxydization i think it might just be the pics.