Massive Lizardmen collector\\\'
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Well, since you asked 
Yeah, bright skinks and muted saurus would be a good combination I think
Maybe a dark red, like my gecko Jarvis. Any opportunity to show him off In fact, these guys (Rhacodactylus ciliatus) come in all sorts of colours which might be good.
I like the idea of Dendrobates leucomelas, the yellow and black one. They have cool patterning, more visible on this photo:
Azureus and Tinctorius (blue one and yellow/blue/black one) would also be cool for skinks I think.
The chameleon you showed (Furcifer pardalis) comes in loads of great colours, too.
Yeah, bright skinks and muted saurus would be a good combination I think
Maybe a dark red, like my gecko Jarvis. Any opportunity to show him off
In fact, these guys (Rhacodactylus ciliatus) come in all sorts of colours which might be good.
I like the idea of Dendrobates leucomelas, the yellow and black one. They have cool patterning, more visible on this photo:
Azureus and Tinctorius (blue one and yellow/blue/black one) would also be cool for skinks I think.
The chameleon you showed (Furcifer pardalis) comes in loads of great colours, too.
Bigdennis52
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Wow, Thanks for the great imput guys.
This one definitely has possibilities as a skink hero. But to do a whole unit like that would take... FOREVER! lol
Well I am looking through to get overall color schemes to see what is going to work out well and what isn\'t. At this point I am not entirely sold on anything, but I do have strong opinions on certain schemes. I have a little under 400 skinks total to paint between troops, crew, riders, and hero\'s So a strong variety shouldnt make it look all that bad.
I was thinking about it, and with that many different troops. That can give me the following schemes
6 units of 24 - 6 color scheme choices ( 144 skinks )
16 units of 12 skinks - 12 color scheme choices (192 skinks)
~ 15 hero choices
so roughly 25-30 different color schemes shouldn\'t stand out all that bad. Now to be honest when I look through a lot of the various poison tree frog images I have downloaded, some of them just look plain goofy. I understand that they are natural coloring patterns of these creatures but, if i saw one I would kill it on sight because it looks so stupid.
Anyway back to my original thought. I like scheme of this image
And to be honest I don\'t think it would be all that hard to paint different units with this pattern. Begin with a basecoat of yellow, build it up a couple layers (Yellow in my opinion is annoying to paint) then make the black patterning with some thinned black paint. It doesn\'t seem to be that hard to do... (wait until you hear me complaining when I start doing it)
Then with going along the lines of that pattern, it would be easy to do a yellow unit, orange unit, red unit, green unit, blue unit, purple unit. so with one simple scheme I can get 6 different units out of it.
And then for the hero\'s or shamans it wouldnt be that hard to take more time (the models have more detail and should have more time taken on them) to go ahead and do the more complicated color schemes as an example I think a skink warchief wouldnt look bad in this color scheme
but I would not want to have to look at an entire unit painted like that, nor have to paint an entire unit like that.
Also Thanks Bill, I had a color pattern in my head that looks similar to Jarvis :idea: but I didn\'t think at looking at gecko color schemes and kind of limited myself in that area. Today I am spending time, looking at several various lizards, reptiles, snakes, etc color patterns to see different naturally occuring schemes. Again, some creatures of this world look too goofy to paint.
Also found some nice turtle shell patterns to help out with those saurus shields.
Thanks everyone for the advice and tips, my birthday is November 24th but I might get the camera at the end of this week, who knows... :bouncy:
This one definitely has possibilities as a skink hero. But to do a whole unit like that would take... FOREVER! lol
Well I am looking through to get overall color schemes to see what is going to work out well and what isn\'t. At this point I am not entirely sold on anything, but I do have strong opinions on certain schemes. I have a little under 400 skinks total to paint between troops, crew, riders, and hero\'s So a strong variety shouldnt make it look all that bad.
I was thinking about it, and with that many different troops. That can give me the following schemes
6 units of 24 - 6 color scheme choices ( 144 skinks )
16 units of 12 skinks - 12 color scheme choices (192 skinks)
~ 15 hero choices
so roughly 25-30 different color schemes shouldn\'t stand out all that bad. Now to be honest when I look through a lot of the various poison tree frog images I have downloaded, some of them just look plain goofy. I understand that they are natural coloring patterns of these creatures but, if i saw one I would kill it on sight because it looks so stupid.
Anyway back to my original thought. I like scheme of this image
And to be honest I don\'t think it would be all that hard to paint different units with this pattern. Begin with a basecoat of yellow, build it up a couple layers (Yellow in my opinion is annoying to paint) then make the black patterning with some thinned black paint. It doesn\'t seem to be that hard to do... (wait until you hear me complaining when I start doing it)
Then with going along the lines of that pattern, it would be easy to do a yellow unit, orange unit, red unit, green unit, blue unit, purple unit. so with one simple scheme I can get 6 different units out of it.
And then for the hero\'s or shamans it wouldnt be that hard to take more time (the models have more detail and should have more time taken on them) to go ahead and do the more complicated color schemes as an example I think a skink warchief wouldnt look bad in this color scheme
but I would not want to have to look at an entire unit painted like that, nor have to paint an entire unit like that.
Also Thanks Bill, I had a color pattern in my head that looks similar to Jarvis :idea: but I didn\'t think at looking at gecko color schemes and kind of limited myself in that area. Today I am spending time, looking at several various lizards, reptiles, snakes, etc color patterns to see different naturally occuring schemes. Again, some creatures of this world look too goofy to paint.
Also found some nice turtle shell patterns to help out with those saurus shields.
Thanks everyone for the advice and tips, my birthday is November 24th but I might get the camera at the end of this week, who knows... :bouncy:
Bigdennis52
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As previously mentioned I pride myself more of a collector of the lizardmen army models that citadel has created over the years. Today I popped on ebay (my favorite source of mini\'s) and found a couple more items that I havent got yet.
I picked up this version of a skink priest
I didn\'t have that version yet, i dont really like him that much... I might just chop his staff top off and cast a couple of them that is probabily the only cool part of the mini.... lol
Also I picked up the Dogs of War guys Tichi Huichi and his Cold One Riders
I got both pretty cheap compared to the games workshop prices. The skink cold one riders were about 18 dollars and the skink priest was 4$ so for 22$ I got pretty much 60$ worth of mini\'s... yay :duh:
There are still a couple more guys I am missing...
Lord Kroq-gar on a carnosaur
Saurus oldblood on a cold one
Tenehuini sotek prophet
I picked up this version of a skink priest
I didn\'t have that version yet, i dont really like him that much... I might just chop his staff top off and cast a couple of them that is probabily the only cool part of the mini.... lol
Also I picked up the Dogs of War guys Tichi Huichi and his Cold One Riders
I got both pretty cheap compared to the games workshop prices. The skink cold one riders were about 18 dollars and the skink priest was 4$ so for 22$ I got pretty much 60$ worth of mini\'s... yay :duh:
There are still a couple more guys I am missing...
Lord Kroq-gar on a carnosaur
Saurus oldblood on a cold one
Tenehuini sotek prophet
Bigdennis52
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Good news, I have finally picked out a camera to go with, well pending the experts on here say go for it... lol
This is a link to the camera
kodiak camera
This is a link to the camera
kodiak camera
prominentdementia
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I\'m no expert with cameras when it comes to miniature shooting because I kinda suck at it, but I do have experience with Kodak, Sony and Canon! Kodak hasn\'t been my most favorite experience but you do get a good deal for the price. I had the m1033 10 mp camera seen Here . It has a fast startup but its slow at processing images and it seems like every shot was a hit or miss but it was relatively reliable. Here are 2 pictures I took with it, the first one is the untouched version, and the second one was using the cameras onboard photo fixer.
Original
Photo Fix
The camera was alright but it didn\'t have all the features I wanted. After awhile though my camera got stolen so I had to go search for a new one, and I got the Sony DSC-W150 Here
This one is pretty damn good lol. The start up is fast but sometimes on custom settings the processing can be lengthy. The picture taking became pretty controlled and the majority of shots turned out how I wanted, it still lacks some settings but I won\'t get everything I want in a point and shoot. It has good onboard editing options and you can do some cool effects and resizing and trimming within limits. I really like this one. Here are 2 untouched pictures I took with it. I just noticed the file sizes with this camera are larger than with the Kodak.
#1
#2
The last camera I\'ve had experience with was my friend\'s Canon. It was a Canon PowerShot SD1000. You could get quality shots with no knowledge through automatic settings and it had really good custom settings, it had a medium/fast speed all throughout through startup and processing. I\'ll link you to the newer model of the camera though Canon Powershot SD1100IS. Soo about this camera it has a lot of color settings thats why I liked using it, color contrasts and replacement was a cool feature. Clicking and shooting anything was quick and easy. I don\'t have any of my originals that I took with that camera but here is a picture I photoshopped, it has quite a load of detail for it being an old model that was a 7.1 megapixel and the newer model I linked you is 8.0 megapixels.
Photoshopped Pic
I\'m sorry I don\'t have any experience with the Kodak model you linked me but maybe I thought this would help. So here\'s an overview.
Kodak M1033 $200 - 10 megapixel, fast start up, slower processing, hit and miss picture taking, it seemed almost random and the flash felt too powerful in most situations and didn\'t work so well indoors because of this, but has quite a bit of automatic settings to choose from with panoramic, etc..
Sony DSC-W150 $229.99 - 8.1 megapixels, fast start up and custom settings can cause processing to be lengthy, felt more controlled when you get familiar with the settings, different modes allow you to change the flash settings, with the right settings indoor shots have a good quality you just need to mess around a bit to understand it.
Canon SD1100-IS $200 - 8.1 megapixels with a fast startup and pretty good processing times. The custom settings are easy to use with a little bit of color gimmicks that are fun to play around with. All types of shots are pretty easy to do but the automatic settings for it are pretty general.
Sorry for this lengthy post lol, but your best bet is to go down to Bestbuy or Sears and use the display cameras to make your decision, each camera feels different.
I really like my Sony over my Kodak.
I\'d rank it Sony as first, Canon, then Kodak.
But Canon makes very good cameras you get most bang for your buck imo, Sony is good but a bit more costly and you need to get the SD Pro Duo card for it which cost more than an SD card Kodak and Canon\'s use. Which I could do a whole new review on for memory cards! But I won\'t lol, but I will warn you that I don\'t think its worth it buying an SD High Capacity card for your camera because of the class speeds during file transfer it can be sluggish and you need a special memory card reader if yours is outdated. I highly suggest you go into Best buy or Circuit City to try out the cameras I listed, maybe even bring in a miniature and try to take a pic under their horrible lighting. Lol, good luck!
Original
Photo Fix
The camera was alright but it didn\'t have all the features I wanted. After awhile though my camera got stolen so I had to go search for a new one, and I got the Sony DSC-W150 Here
This one is pretty damn good lol. The start up is fast but sometimes on custom settings the processing can be lengthy. The picture taking became pretty controlled and the majority of shots turned out how I wanted, it still lacks some settings but I won\'t get everything I want in a point and shoot. It has good onboard editing options and you can do some cool effects and resizing and trimming within limits. I really like this one. Here are 2 untouched pictures I took with it. I just noticed the file sizes with this camera are larger than with the Kodak.
#1
#2
The last camera I\'ve had experience with was my friend\'s Canon. It was a Canon PowerShot SD1000. You could get quality shots with no knowledge through automatic settings and it had really good custom settings, it had a medium/fast speed all throughout through startup and processing. I\'ll link you to the newer model of the camera though Canon Powershot SD1100IS. Soo about this camera it has a lot of color settings thats why I liked using it, color contrasts and replacement was a cool feature. Clicking and shooting anything was quick and easy. I don\'t have any of my originals that I took with that camera but here is a picture I photoshopped, it has quite a load of detail for it being an old model that was a 7.1 megapixel and the newer model I linked you is 8.0 megapixels.
Photoshopped Pic
I\'m sorry I don\'t have any experience with the Kodak model you linked me but maybe I thought this would help. So here\'s an overview.
Kodak M1033 $200 - 10 megapixel, fast start up, slower processing, hit and miss picture taking, it seemed almost random and the flash felt too powerful in most situations and didn\'t work so well indoors because of this, but has quite a bit of automatic settings to choose from with panoramic, etc..
Sony DSC-W150 $229.99 - 8.1 megapixels, fast start up and custom settings can cause processing to be lengthy, felt more controlled when you get familiar with the settings, different modes allow you to change the flash settings, with the right settings indoor shots have a good quality you just need to mess around a bit to understand it.
Canon SD1100-IS $200 - 8.1 megapixels with a fast startup and pretty good processing times. The custom settings are easy to use with a little bit of color gimmicks that are fun to play around with. All types of shots are pretty easy to do but the automatic settings for it are pretty general.
Sorry for this lengthy post lol, but your best bet is to go down to Bestbuy or Sears and use the display cameras to make your decision, each camera feels different.
I really like my Sony over my Kodak.
I\'d rank it Sony as first, Canon, then Kodak.
But Canon makes very good cameras you get most bang for your buck imo, Sony is good but a bit more costly and you need to get the SD Pro Duo card for it which cost more than an SD card Kodak and Canon\'s use. Which I could do a whole new review on for memory cards! But I won\'t lol, but I will warn you that I don\'t think its worth it buying an SD High Capacity card for your camera because of the class speeds during file transfer it can be sluggish and you need a special memory card reader if yours is outdated. I highly suggest you go into Best buy or Circuit City to try out the cameras I listed, maybe even bring in a miniature and try to take a pic under their horrible lighting. Lol, good luck!
Bigdennis52
New member
Thank you for the lengthy post, the info was great.
Today, I did go to the local stores, actually in my small town area we had cameras around the 300-400$ range at best buy, then others were low end (under 100$) and then I stopped into sears and tried out this kodiak model and it kind of blew away the pictures that the best buy cameras were taking, I really did not want to spend 400$ on a camera however the 129$ one at best buy did not give me the options that this model did
I am new into cameras and I kind of liked the various options this kodiak camera offered, the 12x zoom really took me into my mini. Unfortunately for me the area I live in does not supply all too many high end electronics and I do not really feel comfortable buying an item like this through the web in case something goes wrong I cannot return it. Actually at my local sears store this was the top of the line camera they offered. I tested it out... along with the dumbass kid that works there (a rant for another day) and we zoomed in on a darkelf assassin I brought with me to take pics of.... he really got a closeup of his face that I thought kind of sold me on the camera
I may or may not like it after I start shooting with it, but I think I might get it this weekend anyway to try... I guess if I dont like it I will bring it back But I really want to start throwing some pictures up on the web so I can explain my WIP better
Again thank you for the review of the cameras it was greatly appreciated.
Today, I did go to the local stores, actually in my small town area we had cameras around the 300-400$ range at best buy, then others were low end (under 100$) and then I stopped into sears and tried out this kodiak model and it kind of blew away the pictures that the best buy cameras were taking, I really did not want to spend 400$ on a camera however the 129$ one at best buy did not give me the options that this model did
I am new into cameras and I kind of liked the various options this kodiak camera offered, the 12x zoom really took me into my mini. Unfortunately for me the area I live in does not supply all too many high end electronics and I do not really feel comfortable buying an item like this through the web in case something goes wrong I cannot return it. Actually at my local sears store this was the top of the line camera they offered. I tested it out... along with the dumbass kid that works there (a rant for another day) and we zoomed in on a darkelf assassin I brought with me to take pics of.... he really got a closeup of his face that I thought kind of sold me on the camera
I may or may not like it after I start shooting with it, but I think I might get it this weekend anyway to try... I guess if I dont like it I will bring it back But I really want to start throwing some pictures up on the web so I can explain my WIP better
Again thank you for the review of the cameras it was greatly appreciated.
prominentdementia
New member
Lol Np. I know buying cameras is crazy there are so many different kinds and a zoom camera might be for you! Good luck with it And lets see some minis!
And lets see some minis!Bigdennis52
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Oh ya, I got the camera today, and well... I suck at taking pictures but here is some stuff that I did
... Don\'t laugh!
This is the unit of classic saurus warriors that I converted into spearmen using the new lizardmen sprue\'s
front view 1
front view 2
side view
top view
Individual Saurus
Side View Individual Saurus
Well that is the unit of saurus warriors I Converted into spearmen, I hope it gives you an Idea of what I was doing
Just have to finish them up
... Don\'t laugh!
This is the unit of classic saurus warriors that I converted into spearmen using the new lizardmen sprue\'s
front view 1
front view 2
side view
top view
Individual Saurus
Side View Individual Saurus
Well that is the unit of saurus warriors I Converted into spearmen, I hope it gives you an Idea of what I was doing
Just have to finish them up
Bigdennis52
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Here are a couple pictures of about half of the lizardmen models I have to work on duing this WIP
Oh god...
Here is a wide view of the entire dresser...
Here is the right side:
Here is the left side:
Oh god...
Here is a wide view of the entire dresser...
Here is the right side:
Here is the left side:
Monkeysplitters
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well ill admit i was a bit skeptical on how the old saurus\' and the new arms would mesh, but once you toss the shields on no one would even know.
And damn thats alot of mini\'s, good luck. Id lose heart after just imagining painting all those and ive got alot of respect for anyone who can stick it out.
And damn thats alot of mini\'s, good luck. Id lose heart after just imagining painting all those and ive got alot of respect for anyone who can stick it out.
Bigdennis52
New member
Yeah I am waiting on my milliput shipment to cast some new shields for the generic saurus warriors. Actually, does anyone know if saurus warriors with spears can even have shields?
Anyway, here are a couple of other things I fooled around today making
Some plants on round bases, I dunno what I wanna do with them yet, I was just experimenting
I have to admit some of them didnt turn out as I expected, I can always clip them back off and redo it but I have so many different bins of material I think I will keep these at the moment
Anyway, here are a couple of other things I fooled around today making
Some plants on round bases, I dunno what I wanna do with them yet, I was just experimenting
I have to admit some of them didnt turn out as I expected, I can always clip them back off and redo it but I have so many different bins of material I think I will keep these at the moment
Bigdennis52
New member
Well I posted this same thing in the photography one But I want it here too so ... :moon:
Hi all,
I just downloaded this GIMP program everyone is talking about, I never used anything like this before, and I couldnt figure out where to start so I went to my favorite source of information ... Youtube.com ... lol
And after watching a couple demo video\'s this is what I came up with...
let me know what you think?
I actually got this model through a large ebay auction of lizardmen stuff I won, he came to me painted. I have so many things to do right now I was going to leave him and maybe brighten him up if I want to change him. I got plenty of other slann mages to paint up right now I can leave him as he is...
Hi all,
I just downloaded this GIMP program everyone is talking about, I never used anything like this before, and I couldnt figure out where to start so I went to my favorite source of information ... Youtube.com ... lol
And after watching a couple demo video\'s this is what I came up with...
let me know what you think?
I actually got this model through a large ebay auction of lizardmen stuff I won, he came to me painted. I have so many things to do right now I was going to leave him and maybe brighten him up if I want to change him. I got plenty of other slann mages to paint up right now I can leave him as he is...
Bigdennis52
New member
Ahhh... I hate the fact I can\'t resist a \"deal\"
Last night I was surfing around ebay and boom, I saw some last minute deals, well I didn\'t really need these things but I figured what the hell why not. So I bought up 97 20mm bases, about 30 new lizardmen saurus warrior shields (I love these things) another 30 skink warriors, and 20 saurus warriors (5th ed) I love the old style saurus warriors, and a couple more bits auctions
I know I know I dont need this stuff but I cant resist... Just add more to the pile
THEN.... today I get home for lunch and I got my tichi riders DOW box set... Weeee! Also my Milliput arrived, so I can cast up some of those classic temple guard halberds and some more lizardmen saurus shields
Ok thats all for now. I will update later. Tonight the woman is making me clean up my mess ... lol or as I like to call it ... my work area :cussing:
Last night I was surfing around ebay and boom, I saw some last minute deals, well I didn\'t really need these things but I figured what the hell why not. So I bought up 97 20mm bases, about 30 new lizardmen saurus warrior shields (I love these things) another 30 skink warriors, and 20 saurus warriors (5th ed) I love the old style saurus warriors, and a couple more bits auctions
I know I know I dont need this stuff but I cant resist... Just add more to the pile
THEN.... today I get home for lunch and I got my tichi riders DOW box set... Weeee! Also my Milliput arrived, so I can cast up some of those classic temple guard halberds and some more lizardmen saurus shields
Ok thats all for now. I will update later. Tonight the woman is making me clean up my mess ... lol or as I like to call it ... my work area :cussing:
boristfrog
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That\'s a lot of lizards!
Btw - this frog was the inspiration behind my tyranid colour scheme.
best of luck with all your models.
Btw - this frog was the inspiration behind my tyranid colour scheme.
best of luck with all your models.
Bigdennis52
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ooo, got pics of the tyranids?
boristfrog
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No decent ones really. Some of my earlier works - I need to get the painted ones out for a game on Sat, I think it\'s going to be embarrassing!
Anyway, here\'s my flickr set for my broodlord
The frog was the basis of my idea - then I added some purple and some green in areas. I wanted them to be jungle \'nids - so fairly bright colours on the smaller ones. The plan is for the bigger nids to have the darker spots on their carapace.
Can\'t seem to find any pics of my termies
This one doesn\'t have much better pics - but I was referencing sea creatures - mostly crabs for this one. Then a couple mix lead to something very different.
Flickr set for my fex
Anyway, here\'s my flickr set for my broodlord
The frog was the basis of my idea - then I added some purple and some green in areas. I wanted them to be jungle \'nids - so fairly bright colours on the smaller ones. The plan is for the bigger nids to have the darker spots on their carapace.
Can\'t seem to find any pics of my termies
This one doesn\'t have much better pics - but I was referencing sea creatures - mostly crabs for this one. Then a couple mix lead to something very different.
Flickr set for my fex
Bigdennis52
New member
nice work, also nice bunnies!
prominentdementia
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Nice work on taking a picture of Slann! Looks like your getting a hang of miniature photography I\'d recommend printing out a light blue-white gradient that fills up a piece of paper. I think that would brighten up the overall tone of the miniature, or it just might be the painting as a whole. Looking forward to seeing some stuff you\'ve been painting! Lots to look forward to...lots and lots...
Bigdennis52
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and lots and lots. I have 200 skinks currently soaking in simple green I am going to leave them in a couple days
Then those will be some of my projects. I might put some characters in there once and a while to break it up but I have a nice project here going
Keep checking for updates
Then those will be some of my projects. I might put some characters in there once and a while to break it up but I have a nice project here going
Keep checking for updates
