Morale boost whilst painting a long term army project - How my Slann/Lizardman army has grown

Hi All, long time no post, particularly as far as this project has progressed. My original Slann/lizardman army post was back in June 2019, just before BOYL and whilst it's been slow progress over the intervening period, those of you who are members of the various oldhammer fce book groups will know I've been busy of the last three months spreading a considerable amount of paint over my C series Slann, lizardmen and adding a few newer figures to my collection to bring them to some form of near completion(Who ever finishes an army?). So in an effort to keep up the pace, here's a video and a few pictures of the 'new' stuff mixed in with the old.

 Here's the mage priest surrounded by his guard, matching in the newly painted figures was trick given the original paint work is a few years old.

Next up are the original Palace guard, no new figures here, but the picture shows them off a treat.

Here are the Lizardmen for regiments, lots of new additions to these units.

Now for one of my fravorite units Lizardmen coldone riders, I've learnt with this unit that broken figures are an opportunity to add a little extra to the original mono-pose figures.

Next up are the slaves all I've added here are a couple of Slann officers to lead (I've still to paint the slave handlers).

Here are the specialists - those new  figures I've added to play later editions of Warhammer.

Almost there, heres the Slann coldone riders, no new stuff here, but to complete the post here they are.

Last, but by no means least the Slann skirmishers

Hope you like what you've seen, hopefully, more to follow soon.

Another daubing of paint! ( A steady progression towards a New painted army)

OK, I've kicked off with daubing basic colours to the first twenty to thirty miniatures of  my new Thunderbolt Mountain, Wood Elf Army, which is all well and good, but it's not really going to cut it when it comes to the detail of these excellent figures, as it'll be soul destroying to not see any significant progress over time.

So, I've broken them down into smaller groups, based upon the poses and started high-lighting and adding base colours for the detail.

I know my camera skills do neither my painting or these miniatures any favours, but here's a couple of 'close-ups' to give an indication of how things are progressing.

Hope you enjoy the journey.

Paul / Golgfag1

First coats of many colours

Well obviously, I wasn't going to wait until Christmas to start painting the Wood Elves, so here's their initial preparation, priming (as I'm going to try something different with these miniatures - washers) with white Halfords white primer spray paint.

I've then done a general wash of MP miniature Paint, ration of one paint to two water to get into all crevices  and to 'lift all the fine pieces of detail to a level where I might actually see it! Also, there's nothing worse than painting a figure and spotting a small fleck of white which you can do nothing about without touching the surrounding area (I normally use black matt or satin spray paint).

The rank and file

As ever my pictures do me or miniatures any credit

  I know they look like nothing but let me assure you their coming along just fine.

Initial coats of colour

My intention is to use a broad range of greens & browns, given that there's only three main poses, apply those colours to different parts of the miniature so that there's no uniformity in the way their painted, apart from the colours used.

Hope you enjoy the journey half as much, as I am.

Paul/ Golgfag1