I’ve had some Lizardman Temple Guard miniatures for ages, but they’re the old metals and I only had 11. That’s not really a useful sized bodyguard for a Slann mage priest, so I thought I needed some more.

I wasn’t keen on coughing up £29.50 (incl P&P) for ten plastics, which would have been more like £34 with the  old style round shields I wanted to use with them. So instead I’ve improvised:

  • 2x sprues of 4 regular plastic saurus (from Ebay) = £10
  • 10x Temple guard heads (from BitzBox) = £5.7
  • 8x old style lizardman shields (from Ebay) = £4.5

Total cost: £20.20

And here they are doing their thing: guarding the slann. Sort of highlights how badly I need to touch up the slann…
What it looks like to be on the wrong side of the Temple Guard
The first Temple Guards in this unit were painted about 15 years ago. I think that’s a new world record for slow painting of a unit.
The full unit of 19

I wanted the old shields so they’ve match my existing metal TG. This gives me a unit of 19, which is ok I reckon. A unit of 30 would look great, but could be a bit unwieldy once you have that big Slann in the front rank. Saurus are on 25mm bases anyway, so it’s easy to get a unit that’s too wide to be manoeuvrable.