The "Greenfish" returns and I have to make a shameful confession.

 Scratting about in the cupboard I found a box containing some old Warhammer figures from the first boxed set I bought nearly thirty years ago. It was the fifth edition starter set with the Bretonnians and their deadly enemies the Lizardmen. The Bretonnians see daylight quite regularly but the lizards have been buried for donkey's years mainly because I never had enough of them for much of a game. I only had the plastic lizardmen and skinks and couldn't afford the metal figures needed to make a decent force for Warhammer.

But SAGA is a different beast, looking in the box I reckoned that I could make a canny little warband with my wee collection. All those years ago when I painted the figures I put most effort into the Bretonnians and took a big short cut when I painted the lizards putting a black wash over the bare grey plastic, painting in some detail and putting a high gloss varnish over all.

Getting them ready for a game of SAGA was easy, I just painted out the Goblin Green base edges and tickled in a few highlights.

Here are some posed shots of the toys, note the Stegosaurus near the back.

The Stegosaurus is a whole 'nother story, a shameful confession has to be made.

Back in the late 1990's my mam had been round the charity shops and brought our little lad a few cheap toys, one of the toys was a bright green rubbery Stegosaurus. Wor little lad called it "Greenfish" and played with it and the other toys for a while, then I did did a bad thing.

After looking at the "Greenfish" with my wargamers eye and appreciating it's dimensions I wheedled it from my beloved son.

There!, I said it, I shamefully pursuaded the bairn to give me the "Greenfish". What a tw*t!.

Well, the "Greenfish" got painted and had a run out on the wargames table and then went in the box with the rest of the gang for years and years.

I am using the Lords of the Wild list and Battleboard for the lizardmen.

Lizard warriors.

Scaly little Skinks.

Charge.

"Don't you stick your tongue out at me!".

Warlords fight it out.

The Battleboard with some of my home made dice.

Well I had a cracking game with the Lizardmen winning bigly, the "Greenfish" did very well enduring a veritable storm of arrows and keeping the Bretonnians under pressure.