| The Gray Ghost | 12 May 2008 11:50 a.m. PST |
What's some good colors other, than various shades of green? |
| Sumo Boy | 12 May 2008 12:00 p.m. PST |
Look up some pics of tropical frogs, salamanders, etc. You can come up with some very colorful schemes that way. Blues, oranges, black and yellow…. E.g.: link (poison dart frog / Wikipedia) |
| Pictors Studio | 12 May 2008 12:05 p.m. PST |
Copy from the coolest of all pets: link
Give the leaders the black beard.
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| La Long Carabine | 12 May 2008 12:22 p.m. PST |
I do my 20mm lizard men in blue. They are just old school GW Skinks with spears and upholstery tack shields rebased on washers. picture I'll take some more photos if you would like to see them closer, I just tossed them in with the cave kraken for scale. LLC aka Ron |
| Steve Hazuka | 12 May 2008 1:44 p.m. PST |
Those shields are the coolest idea! |
| La Long Carabine | 12 May 2008 2:10 p.m. PST |
Thanks tabletopwarrior. I am very happy with them as well. I bought them a while back and knew I would find the right models to put them on some day. I need to take some close up photos of them. I have some crude face like markings painted on them that people seem to like. It just seems to give the lizardmen this primitive feel I was trying to convey. LLC aka Ron |
| mweaver | 12 May 2008 3:20 p.m. PST |
I noticed the face on the one shield in the picture. Nice job. Gray Ghost, one of the few commercial "triads" that I use pretty much straight is composed of three Reaper Master Series paints: Troll Shadow, Gnoll Brown, and Half-Orc Highlight. I have used it for several saurus warriors and skinks – it makes a nice greeny brown lizard. Or browny green, I can't decide. But it looks good. |
| Patrick FL | 12 May 2008 3:29 p.m. PST |
Nice, Carbine. Of course, per the Osprey, they should be green… |
| jpattern2 | 12 May 2008 7:32 p.m. PST |
I use shades of brown, but mine are desert/savannah dwellers. |
| Allen57 | 12 May 2008 9:21 p.m. PST |
I used yellow with a grey drybrush and blueish wash. |
| Robin Bobcat | 13 May 2008 1:18 a.m. PST |
Glossy black is always a nifty look, especially if you add some 'racing stripes'. I've an old pot of Ral Partha 'Steel' that works well for that. It's a metallic black. Fire engine red, with lighter underbellies? Don't see very much *yellow* on the battlefield… The main problem with 'realistic' lizard coloration is that they look great up close and individually, but on the table, you have what looks like well-sculpted mud. |
| Norman D Landings | 13 May 2008 4:33 a.m. PST |
I did some for a friend a while back… I was sick of using green at the time (Lots of goblinoids and reptiles!) so I went for: Sand-brown skin… Grey-white underbelly & throat… Black stripes across the tails… and emerald green eyes. I was very pleased with the effect. |
| Mike at Work 2 | 13 May 2008 6:07 a.m. PST |
Last time I painted lizard men (who were meant to be lizing in a jungle/rain forest like the Amazon), I went to the library (this was pre-Google image search)and got a few books on reptiles. I leafed through, found some neat color schemes (in light greens) from Amazon jungle lizards (forget what type now) and painted my LMs with that. |
| Frankss | 13 May 2008 8:07 a.m. PST |
In regards to yellow I once saw one of the spitting salamander models painted yellow with red on the scale tips and it looked real sharp.
Don't Lizardmens colours vary by the spawn pool or something like that. So you could use any colour you fancy. I did one Saurus Spearmen unit when they had a sale in purple. |
makes use of mirrored surfaces in painting this Tiko Destroyer from 
