Reaper Miniatures Lizardmen

More on these individual models in separate posts - just completed 27 Bones lizardman in five different poses which came out of Bones I, II, and III Kickstarters.  This was an experiment in "fast good" which is looking at batches of Bones and making them look good enough for the tabletop knowing that my players are going to obliterate them within a few rounds of combat.

• bases - I started to cut away on a couple of the bases and glue them into the round base - it ended being a lot of work which was really unnecessary as these lizardmen (with the exception of the single champion) had really big and thick bases which stood up well on their own - so for the sake of "fast good" I nixed the effort it would take to cut lots of pvc plastic, glue, and fill.
• colors - by reviewing a large number of the various pre-painted model lines by Wizards, Paizo, and Reaper; I came up with blocks of colors which would generate contrast - I tried to minimize too many layers and used a scheme which is the same on all poses.
• learning to say no more or it's done - I started on putting a green stripe with highlight on the backside scales/tail to give it more interest in back as there's a lot of blue - however, I convinced myself after doing a couple - one with highlighting which is on the far left of the above picture - that the effort wasn't worth the gain for the tabletop.  Must learn that "fast good" painting uses high contrast and clean, within the lines painting - then call it done.

Painting instructions for lizardmen:

Step 1: Use Imperial Blue on entire model

Step 2: Heavy drybrush Magic Blue on entire model

Step 3: Use Besty Brown on entire club, spear, arrows, and bows

Step 4: Use Leather Brown on all leather bits

Step 5: Use Bronze Flesh on belly

Step 6: Use Sick Green on loincloth

Step 7: Drybrush Sick Green on shield

Step 8: Drybrush Escorpena Green on shield

Step 9: Use Bonewhite on spikes, bones, claws

Step 10: Use Black on base

Step 11: Drybrush Cold Grey on base

Step 12: Drybrush Stonewall Grey on base

Step 13: Drybrush Skull White on base

Step 14: Use Black on sides of base to cleanup

Step 15: on the one model - used Sick Green on scales/tail and then highlighted with Escorpena Green