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It's from the 'hairy head' sprue, as popularised by mordheim and the empire knight kit.

I hate fielding my old Tact squads and scouts. Not only are they in deep disrepair, but they also are on smaller bases.
I have gotten really good at painting, so I want to repaint them. But my project wall keeps building, why they keeo failing. Problem is I HATE having my models on mixed bases, it pisses me off to no end.

Original Nagash mini. It remains unpainted because I just don't know where to start, it's not going to look good no matter what I do, and so it never makes the table.
I do love it though. Awful old Nagash.

I use to have a IG squad that was lizard men warriors with catachan arms. Sadly I lost them during a move and no pics. No idea what I was thinking lol

 Lockark wrote:
I use to have a IG squad that was lizard men warriors with catachan arms. Sadly I lost them during a move and no pics. No idea what I was thinking lol

Why did you change the arms? I used to have (and fielded at several GW US GTs) a complete IG army converted from the old plastic Lizardmen, the ones from the old Lizardmen/Bretonnian starter box. Sentinels painted as poison arrow frogs with Skink drivers, a Basilisk cannon mounted on the old metal Stegadon (again, Skink crew), real turtle shells converted into Chimeras, Hellhounds and Griffons. Even had a Lizardman inquisitor and a Skink Callidus assassin...

Joyboozer wrote:
Original Nagash mini. It remains unpainted because I just don't know where to start, it's not going to look good no matter what I do, and so it never makes the table.
I do love it though. Awful old Nagash.

On my list of projects that are never going to happen is to rebase my old Nagash. Figure out how big it needs to be, and how tall I need to make him to roughly equate with his modern sculpt. I figure I can use some of my old ghost minis (from when they were bought pre-model and ranked up) to represent his swirling spirit hosts

But I would feel no shame for putting him down. Fear the clown hat.

 don_mondo wrote:

 Lockark wrote:
I use to have a IG squad that was lizard men warriors with catachan arms. Sadly I lost them during a move and no pics. No idea what I was thinking lol

Why did you change the arms? I used to have (and fielded at several GW US GTs) a complete IG army converted from the old plastic Lizardmen, the ones from the old Lizardmen/Bretonnian starter box. Sentinels painted as poison arrow frogs with Skink drivers, a Basilisk cannon mounted on the old metal Stegadon (again, Skink crew), real turtle shells converted into Chimeras, Hellhounds and Griffons. Even had a Lizardman inquisitor and a Skink Callidus assassin...

I used the Lizardmen from that kit to make a Feral Ork warband when they were a White Dwarf list. They worked great.

Wait...green bases are a cause for shame these days? Feh I say! FEH! Granted, back in my day before you damn kids and your cell phones and hip-hoppinal music, we all painted the bases green and it was good enough for us! Spoiled brats and their bases that take as long to paint as the models...get the hell off my lawn!

Cane-waving aside, I'm not sure I'm particularly embarrassed by the paint jobs on any of my models (save a few where the paint is chipping/flaking off and you see bare grey). I'm a below-average painter and I accept this. I also tend to want to keep an army's look consistent, so having squads painted wildly better is just going to annoy me and my backlog is already measured in decades so fixing painted models can't be seen on the list even using the Hobby Hubble Telescope. As someone else put it, even a mediocre paint job with a green base trumps bare plastic.

I do need to get better at painting skin though; I usually favor armies with lots of helmets where the skin isn't visible or is present in such mass quantities (e.g. - Guard footsloggers or big blocks of WHFB infantry) that it doesn't jar the eye too much that the skin painting is terrible. Still haven't hit on a technique that I have the patience/ability for that looks nice though. So I suppose any small-scale force I had with lots of exposed heads I would be embarrassed to put on the field, which is probably why I have none of those.

Joyboozer wrote:
Original Nagash mini. It remains unpainted because I just don't know where to start, it's not going to look good no matter what I do, and so it never makes the table.
I do love it though. Awful old Nagash.

Assemble it without head. Ignoring the magical scabbard of sword shrinking it isn't that bad a miniature. Paint it with no head. I'm not sure what to do after this stage though!