'Oldhammer' - Lizardmen Army - WIP - Part Three

Unfortunately my points tally for the first month of the ‘Oldhammer’ challenge “A Tale of Several Gamers” is going to be disappointingly low, despite trying to have something of a painting frenzy over the past few days. Sadly I’ve not managed to complete a single figure but am now hopefully well on the way to finishing not only last month’s Challenge target but also finish December’s (substantially smaller) goal as well.

For starters a couple of days spent pottering over my albino skink Champion model has meant that my warband’s leader is now close to completion. I’ve really just got a dozen teeth, his yellow eyes and forehead horn to complete before trying to apply a wash over his white flesh. With hindsight I really should have left ‘Gluckle the Greedy’ last as I’m convinced the sheer amount of time I’ve spent on this one model would have allowed me to have completely painted a fair proportion of his blue-skinned skink brethren. Certainly I don’t want to have to paint so beautifully detailed a miniature again for a while.

One thing I did forget to do whilst painting my Champion was apply a brown undercoat to all the areas I eventually wanted to paint bronze. This was something of a hasty mistake which I invariably paid for later when I tried to get the metallic paint to completely layer over black with just a single application. As a result I’ve not only painted all the spear shafts and leathers on my skink warriors with brown paint, but all the ultimately bronze areas as well. I have also started to ‘pick out’ some of the red areas such the leg feathers the Lizardmen wear.

As a break I’ve also started to prepare the Cold One rider I want to complete this month. Hardly a unit I know, and I certainly hope to add to it in the future, but for now I just want to get ‘back on track’ with some simple ‘soft’ painting targets. Interestingly I was warned by the person selling it, that the model was difficult to put together, and they weren’t joking. I am convinced I am going to have to pin the tail on as ‘green stuff’ simply is not doing the job. The model is also badly weighted to one side, as it only stands upon one leg. As a result I’ve tried to make it more stable by placing an object beneath its other claw and could think of nothing more appropriate than one of the newer "Games Workshop" plastic skink heads. This is an ‘Oldhammer’ project after all…

Space Cow Smith has created a blog called “A Tale Of Several Gamers” for us to all post our ‘Oldhammer’ themed posts on so if you’re interested or want to take part then I’d recommend you give it a visit at:
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