From MartinC Lizardmen on the Move (110 Points)

Good morning all, hope you are settling in to the challenge. This year will be something of a departure for me, yes I will still paint loads as be somewhere near the top of the table until Miles drops an epic paint bomb with 45 seconds to go on the last day, but I have decided to paint 2 entirely different types of figures than my usual historical armies. 

There is one main reason for this, I'm running out of periods to paint, literally I am down to Napoleonics and despite loads of pressure from a gaming mate to do them in 28mm I am resisting (for now).

So I have decided to paint my 1st fantasy army since the 1980s. I have always fancied a Lizardman army and spotted some 3D printed figures from Sundered Studios . They were amazing and reasonably priced, unless you buy loads. So I bought loads.

1st up 14 blue skinks with blowpipes (there are 16 but I'd practiced on a few before)

The detail is amazing, these are the simplest figures I have - the others are spectacularly good

And I really love the 2 tone blue of these guys.

Always being interested in new and alternative suppliers I bought a box of Wargames Atlantic Lizardmen. These were disappointing, the sculpts are fine and they go together well but but is the 1st time I bought a plastic kit of figures with insufficient arms. They are mainly armed with firearms (and bolters) with only just enough spears and swords to do the 24 figures. Very boring and repetitive. Luckily other manufacturers have loads of spares and I raided the bits box and found 8 bare human arms with bows that worked perfectly.

Classical green jobs

Again 2 tone painting - you will see a lot of this - think it's one of the reasons I like Lizardmen

So that is 22 x 28mm figures at 5pts each, giving me 110pts and a sensible start.

I hope that you all have a good Christmas and happy new year.

Io Saturnalia

Martin

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First, welcome back to the Challenge, Martin!

It seems fitting that our first paint bomb comes from you, well done! And individually based Lizardmen? How cool and Old Skool is this? I would have never guessed. I really like those vibrant blue Skinks. Who knew that 3D printing would change the hobby so quickly - it's astonishing really. (BTW, I'm going to add a few more points for the banners.) 

What rules are you building this force for?  I hear that they are bringing back The Old World, but at the rate you paint, and the speed of GW's R&D, you'd have all the armies done and still be tapping your foot for the rules to arrive.

Terrific stuff, mate.

-Curt