Yo, dudes. I posted this on the “What are you painting now” thread, but it certainly has a place here, too.

I just finished my first units for my Lizardmen army. To keep me motivated to complete the entire army, I’m tracking my progress on several forums: this one; the Army Challenge on the WAMP forum; and I’m also tracking it on the Old Project Challenge on the Tabletop Gaming News Battle Challenge #4.

The next units will be Saurus on Cold One Cavalry, followed by Chameleons, followed by Skinks. The Cold One Cavalry and Chameleons are about 70% finished, but I’ve started the Skinks from scratch. The Skinks are now assembled and primed, and I’ll show proper WIPs when I paint their first base coat. Oh yeah, I have a Lizardman leader and a Skink Priest about 50% done, so I’ll show them along the way, too.

The ziggurat is a terrain piece by a German outfit, Ziterdes. The piece comes in the package just like you see it, ready to play. I plan to touch it up someday, but it looks great “as is”, so it will probably be on the low-priority list for quite a while. The trees are from the pet store.

The scheme looks very nice indeed. Those old saurus models take me back. Be sure to post pics of new stuff becouse I know they will be awsome to see.

great work, your such a perfectionest. these are more than table top ready. they are gold deamon quality like. good work loving this army. cant wait for more whats next

np man i am really into the hobby side of warhammer. i just wish i was as good as you
what do you have planed for colour for chameleons. just a idea. i seen a unit that is like different shades of the same colour which looked realy good. only i see you have the talent to do something real creative with them. not just the scaly green. but up to you.
i think what is the best part of your painting is that you do it all very fast and still keep a high standered of painting

My Slann will be a proxy, made from a Reaper Toad Demon. I’ll have to build the palanquin from scratch. I’ll also have to make sure that the Slann can fit on the Stegadon, and that I can trade everything out. Haven’t thought much beyond that.

Here are my Chameleons. The models depict the Chameleons strapping frogs all over themselves.

I presume the frogs are the brightly colored poisonous variety, for poisoning their blowdarts. Obviously, they’re not wearing vividly colored frogs for the sake of camouflage, despite the fact that the fiction describes the chameleons’ ability to blend into the jungle foliage. That’s a bit of a contradiction, so I had to pick one approach or the other. I opted for showcasing the colored frogs because I think it’s such a clever modeling idea.

However, painting a variety of brightly colored frogs presented quite a challenge for color theme. The unit risks being garish, but I’m comfortable with how it turned out. Another approach would have been to choose a desaturated color for the Chameleons themselves. However, they were actually the first unit I started on, and I had already painted their skin the emerald colors, as a test case for the Saurus. Each of the six Chameleons actually have a different base/wash combination, as I experimented to find the combo I liked best.

So, yeah, they’re bright, but I think they’ll work.

@khrystan: Thanks for the comment, khrystan. Yup, I agree that the special units should be a little more distinctive. For the reasons I mentioned above, the Chameleons ended up the same basic color. However, I think their kaleidoscopic effect will have them stand out anyway. Now that I’ve seen the end result, I’m tempted to go crazy on the Terradons and paint them like the flyers in Avatar! On the other hand, I was thinking of painting them a bright but more natural golden-yellow, with funky patterns. Now I’m totally undecided. In any case, I do plan to paint one of the Kroxigors and the Stegadon with slightly more realistic colors. We’ll see. I tend to change my mind sometimes, after I see the base coat.