Lizardmen Cold One Cavalry (Complete)

Lemmings to the cliff.

Well it took a while, and the photo is (as usual) incredibly bad, but they're finally done. Nothing particularly special about the riders that hasn't been covered before, with the possible exception of the "banner". Decided that a pure gold banner would look too much, and be considered too heavy to hold aloft going into battle. Instead, it's mostly Dryad Bark with some gold edging in places to make it look fancy. Also decided that it was a fire snake of some kind, and the leaves would be dyed to reflect that, so they've been given a fire type look.

The bases are not the originals, but instead the Shattered Dominion oval bases done up to look like a swap overtaking some ancient ruins. Fairly easy in the end, and gave some opportunity to test out the airbrush a little (hint: if you have an airbrush and are using the Citadel Air range, get some squeeze bottles to put the paint into!).

• Black (air)
• Terminatus Stone (air)
• Lustrian Undergrowth (technical)
• Elysian Green (layer) (just on some plants)
• Niblet Green (dry)
• Hexos Palesun (dry)
• Dawnstone (dry) (just on the stone areas, funnily enough)
• Agrax Earthshade (shade)

The cracks in the bases were made to look like little streams running through the undergrowth, just by painting them a dark blue/green. This ended up being:

• Macragge Blue (base, watered down to shade consistency)
• Drakenhof Nightshade (shade)
• Colia Greenshade (shade)

 That's about it really. I'm not a huge fan of the detail (or lack thereof) with the Shattered Dominion bases, but they give something to work with at least. Just be nice for a bit more detail in them.

The airbrush adventures deserve their own post, but I'm still learning with that. The idea is to make the base colour and initial highlight steps much faster - something I can only really play with more on the next set of models.

-- silly painter.