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