In a vain hope of clearing some space on the painting desk, I've finally finished up some swarm bases for my Lizardmen army, most are snake bases, but I did manage to make up a complete lizard base as well.
I based the colours on the Cayman Lizard, just made the colours a bit bolder, here is a reference picture of the real one.
Below I've split the snake bases in to two pictures to better show them off.
AS you can see there are many different types of snake on there, and here is some of the reference pictures I based them off, I went for snakes that were indigenous to South America .
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You may notice cobra's on the bases and think aren't they from Asia and you'd be right, so to add variety I tried to find different colour schemes for them, below is the reference.
That's all for today, hopefully I can clear some more space on the desk, as long as I don't keep adding new projects, so until next time stay safe, and have fun !
Cheers Dave
Much like Doctor Jones himself, I frikken hate snakes. But these look good. From a distance.
ReplyDeleteThank you Dai, sorry for any discomfort caused, and at least these ones are a big distance away from you ! LOL By the way the TIE Interceptor you found arrived yesterday, many thanks for the search.
DeleteExcellent looking snake bases and always good to clear space on the desk!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thank you Iain, these took me a while because of all the different patterns required, now if I could just motivate myself on the LOTR models I'd get quite a bit of space ! LOL
DeleteThese are wonderful, I love how nature teaches us, you made a gorgeous work with all of them
ReplyDeleteThank you Suber, there are so many different colours in nature, that no one should run out of colour schemes ! LOL
DeleteI appreciate you sharing your reference photos with us. It helps see the inspiration and how well you painted all those creepy crawlers!
ReplyDeleteThank you Jeff, this was one of those posts that the reference was just as important as the painting for the relevance ! LOL
DeleteThese look great, and I love the way you've used real world creatures as inspiration.
ReplyDeleteMuch better than the dull standard green snake some folks (me included, but I'll be changing that) often paint.
Thank you misterc, as Lustria is in the relevant area to South America, I thought it would be good to have actual snakes from that region, now some of the sculpts are more fantasy than realistic, but doesn't mean we cant use real colour schemes ! LOL
DeleteThere is nothing wrong with green snakes, I have a ball python on the base of my Coatyl, which is mostly green, I think the biggest trick is getting the patterns close, which gives them a more natural look.
Serious looking reptiles! The variety is really neat.
ReplyDeleteThank you DAM, even though most of them were sculpted as rattlesnakes, I chose to add as much variety as possible, so each base had a unique look to it.
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