Attempt 2

Here is another attempt at putting up photos, they can be seen on LO as well as photo bucket and my album is under the username "timbuk2steps".

Have painted another 5 Saurus today, hope to finishe them off tomorrow and get going on the other 22 skinks.

Laterz

Photos

Here we go, my first 200 points (well 180 actually but who cares).

Im not sure if the photos will work, we will see.

Ive come to report some progress

Right, I finished painting my 10 skinks and Ive learnt something. I suck at painting. Apart from that things are going well. For the skinks I undercoated the weapons with black before going over them with bleached bone. This wasnt a good idea and Ive learnt my lesson as for the Saurus Im painting the bone straight on the white undercoat. The Saurus are going really well as Ive done 5 or 6 of them and half way through another 4/5. Im painting Blazing Orange everywhere and then doing Chaos Black scales and drybrushing with Fortress Grey. Im having such little paint on the brush it looks like Im highlighting!! If you put too much paint on you just end up painting them Fortress Grey which I have now learnt is the colour of unpainted plastic.

I tried taking some photos on my mum's camera but it has short sightedness and cant properly focus on the models and so my phine has actually become a better camera :S

The thing is that the CD to install my phone onto my laptop is in southampton so I cant upload photos. This means I have to take all my models to soton which could be risky but it has to be done. By the end of tomorrow I should have 10 Saurus and 10 skinks, which technically comes to 180 points which is enough to get by in Tale of Painters. I just hope I can keep up.

Oh and i tried basing with the lava idea but I need some sand otherwise it looks like I just painted some lines on a plain base.

Im gonna start up a Tale of Painters thread on www.librariumonline.com so go check it out soon.

Laterz

The Paints Came!!!

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Right Im probably about halfway through 10 skinks after a couple of hours of painting today, Ive done the skin, the crest and the equpiment I just need to touch them up and do the bases.

Ive signed up for Tale of Painters on LO. This could be interesting as I only have my mum's camera (apart from my phone) and I dont think that is linked up to the computer. I will try to do that tomorrow (hopefully when all my skinks are done).

My paint scheme looks ok so far, the only problem is that the old skink models are very closed in posture-wise, meaning it's quite hard for a shit painter like me to do much. Also the sculpt is pretty rubbish as there are just squares on the model that I have no idea what they are, so I paint them bone.

They look ok but if the bases come out how I want them too then that would make the army look pretty sweet.

Ill post up my "painting plan" for 200 points each month for Tale of Painters (first deadline is 1st May).

Wish me luck!

1500 Points

Right, here is my 1500 point army list. It builds on the 1000 point list and the whole point of this is to make sure I dont have to buy too much stuff I wont use (like when I played Dark Angels when I was 14 and bought a chaplain, a librarian and a commander...).

Scar Veteran - 139
Scimitar of Sun Resplendent
Light Armour
Shield

Skink Priest - 100
Diadem of Power

Scar Veteran - 113
Great Weapon
Light Armour
Shield
Charm of the Jaguar Warrior

20 Saurus - 270
Full Command

15 Saurus - 210
Full Command

10 Skinks - 60
Javelins and Shields

10 Skinks - 60
Javelins and Shields

10 Skinks - 60
Blowpipes

10 Skinks - 60
Blowpipes

4 Kroxigor - 232
Great Weapons

3 Salamander Hunting Packs - 195
9 Skinks Handlers

Total - 1499 points
Models - 94 models
PD - 3 (up to 5)
DD - 3 (up to 5)

Pretty similar tactics to 1000 points. JSOD in smaller saurus unit to begin with before leaping out. General in other saurus unit. Krox and Salamanders on each flank. Skinks screening, flanking, marchblocking etc. Skink Priest will almost definitely have to use the Diadem defensively so he will stay at he back and not die.

Ive come up with some slightly different schemes for the Krox and Salamanders. The Saurus and Skinks are Orange with Black scales, the Salamanders will be yellow with black scales and the Krox can be red. Kinda sticking with the same Lava theme but they are different species so they should be different colours. In my opinion of course.

Laterz

1000 Points

Ok this is a 1000 point force that I can hopefully make pretty quick (if I ever get my paints).

Anyone who is reading these (all 1 of you) then please Comment and Criticise.

Scar Veteran - 139
Scimitar of Sun Resplendent
Light Armour
Shield

Skink Priest - 100
Level 1
Diadem of Power

20 Saurus - 264
Champion, Standard Bearer

15 Saurus - 180
Hand Weapons and Shields

10 Skinks - 60
Javelins and Shields

10 Skinks - 60
Blowpipes

3 Salamander Hunting Packs - 195
9 Skink Handlers

Total - 998 Points
Models - 69 Models
PD - 3 (up to 5)
DD - 3 (up to 5)

My general idea of tactics is to put the ScarVet in the big Saurus Unit and put that in the middle of my army. On each side of that would be the other saurus unit and the salamanders. The skinks will screen and generally be a nuisance. The Skink Priest will stay back (hopefully on a hill) depending on what spell he gets (if he gets Portent of Far he will go near the battle line). If he has to use the diadem defensively most of the time then he will just hide at the back and try not to die.

Now I have just under 2 weeks until my holiday is over, should I order the Salamanders now hoping they arrive in time and I cant undercoat them? Or get them sent to my uni address? Or just accept that I cant do them before the summer (which would suck)

I hate the post office

Im still waiting for my paints, they were shipped out by giftsforgeeks.org.uk on thursday grrrr.

Now I know for next time to pay extra for the 1st class post.

Im in a bit of a dilemma with my 2000 Point list. The Skink Chief is there to kill wizards, but for 20 more points I could have a JSOD (jaguar saurus of death) who can move 18" rather than 20 and be a MUCH harder hitter.

Also someone said that 9 Chameleon skinks are just too big a unit, I kinda see your logic now as they may even be too big to fit in a forest. Im also thinking about dropping the Sun Standard of Chotec (though I want to play a game with it first). A Skink Priest with a diadem of Power will also be good as I can stick him on a hill and use telepathy to get LOS on everything, the Diadem also gives me tremendous flexibility. The priest costs 100 points (Level 1 with Diadem) which is 7 points more than the chief. I would drop the chameleon skinks down to 7 and use the 23 odd points on more skinks.

I just dont know what to do! Apart from wait for paint of course...

Slight Change of Plan

OK I have made a very slight change of plan, one of my saurus units will be 16 strong rather than 20, this is because I have 20 Saurus and the box is 16. Thus meaning I dont have to buy another box for 4 saurus. I have made up the cost by adding 3 more chameleon skinks, bringing that unit up to 9.

Im still waiting for the paints but they have been shipped so Its all up to the Post Office now...

I will write up army lists for 1000 and 1500 points tomorrow and post them up, they will be similar and gradually build up to my 2000 point force.

Oh and by the way, the 2nd Gen Slann gets a free power dice tfor every spell, just to clear that up.

Laterz

Planned order of doing things and stuff like that

Right
This is my planned order of doing things, my mum has a digital camera and Ill take pics and hopefully be able to put them on the computer.

1. Assemble Skinks
2. Assemble Saurus
3. Basecoat Skinks/Saurus with Skull White spray
4. Paint up skinks
5. Paint up saurus
6. Buy skink box
7. Assemble skink box
8. Basecoat skinks
9. Paint skinks
10. Try to create/convert chamo skinks from skink box set
11. Paint up chamo skinks in a funky/different way
12. Buy another 2 boxes of Saurus
13. Assemble/basecoat/paint saurus
14. Create/convert a cool looking Saurus champ that I can use as a Scar-vet for the time being.
15. By 4 Kroxigor
16. Assemble/basecoat/paint Kroxigor
17. By 3 Salamanders
18. Assemble/basecoat/paint Salamanders
19. Buy skink chief with stegadon helm
20. Assemble/basecoat/paint Skink chief
21. Buy Slann mage priest
22. Convert Slann so it looks like he is throwing round bits of volcanic rock (see if I can get some cork board)
23. Assemble/basecoat/paint Slann

oh and

24. Find someone to play with :)

Just a few things then...

And we're off...

Right, of the 2000 point army this is what I currently own.

20 Saurus (no command)
32 Skinks (with shortbows)
Lizardman Army Book
6th Edition Rulebook

SO once I get some paints (should get 6 paints from www.giftsforgeeks.com soon) and some brushes I can paint these up.

The reason I even have these models is due to the fact I own the 5th edition (yeah you read that right) starter set. This is one of the reasons I chose Lizardmen as I have some models (and they are a lot easier to paint/put together/carry around) than Bretonnian Knights.

I have some paint brushes but they are probably pretty mangled so I might get some new ones if/when I go into kingston. I would quite like to go this week as the Easter Holidays havent hit schools yet so I can go into the arts store and maybe even GW without being hideously judged as a geek or a paedophile.

I do have some pots of paints but they have all run dry or stuck themselves shut as they havent been opened since about 2001.

The paints I ordered were: Blazing Orange, Chaos Black, Fortress Grey, Bleached Bone, Sunburst Yellow, Blood Red.

My paint scheme is going to be Blazing Orange skin (maybe highlighted with sunburst yellow) and Chaos Black scales (highlighted with fortress grey). The weapons and shields will all be basecoated with chaos black and painted with bleach bone. The cloth/eyes will be blood red.

The theme for my lizardmen army is gonna be lava/volcanoes. This means my bases will be black but have little streams of lava being red with orange with yellow. This will look cool and the bone weapons will also look pretty cool in my opinion.

The good thing about having so many skinks is that I can buy a box of 24 and have loads spare. My plan is to do 14 Blowpipes 10 javelins. This means that I can just put 5 javelin skinks in a squad and the opponent knows they have javelins (even if half of them have bows), same iwth blowpipes. The reason that Im doing more blowpipes is that Im going to use the blowpipe skinks as Chameleon Skinks. This means that I dont have to buy any and make up for the surplus of skinks that I will have. I will probably paint these up similar to the other skinks but put black camo on their bodies and maybe even just have the fin appearing in a river of lava, that'd be pretty cool.

Laterz

My 2000 Point Lizardmen Target

Ok this is the 2000 Point Lizardmen force I will aim for:

Slann Mage Priest - 590
2nd Generation
Plaque of Protection
Plaque of Tepok
Battle Standard Bearer
Sun Standard of Chotec

Skink Chief - 93
Extra Hand Weapon
Light Armour
Shield
Cloak of Feathers

20 Saurus - 270
Full Command

10 Skinks - 60
Javelin and shields

10 Skinks - 60
Javelin and shields

10 Skinks - 60
Blowpipes

10 Skinks - 60
Blowpipes

20 Saurus - 290
Full Command
Sacred Spawning of Tlatzcotl

4 Kroxigor - 232
Great Weapons

6 Chameleon Skinks - 90
Blowpipes

3 Salamander Hunting Packs - 195
9 Skink handlers

Total: 2000 Points
Models:104 Models
Power: 6 Dice (up to 12)
Dispell: 4 Dice

This is my target, I might even join up to the next Tale of Painters (if there is one) on LO to get my army done quite quickish (even after I inevitably drop out). Having 600 points in one model will make this one handy as I can do 3 months work in one and have more time for jokering and whatnot.

Laterz

My first blog

Right, I am going to use this blog to say how my Lizardmen army is coming along.

Once (if ever) that is done I will hten go onto other projects that are warhammer/40k related.

I highly doubt I will get any readers but I will put up a link on my Librarium Online (LO) signature.

Will blog soon

Laterz