Ogre Raiding Force

Welcome to my gnoblog. With Warseer down I decided to stop lurking and sign up here. I'm working my way through my OK army. I've been playing with them for quite a while and this army has been a long time in construction phases but I'm getting there.

This was always intended as both a showcase and yet rock hard tournament army.

My Ironguts have been based off the new minotaurs to give them some real bulk. This turned out to be a horrendous job to "ogrefy" the bodies and I ended up basically sculpting everything but the arms and heads.







And the above all ranked up:



My slaughtermaster



BSB (in progress)



Tyrant (in progress)



And finally something actually painted:



More painted stuff to follow shortly.

Awesome work with the Green Stuff.  I really like how that belt came out on the butcher.

they look awesome i love the green stuff work well done in making them bigger i always thought they could do with being a bit beefier 

Hello and welcome to the Stronghold!

Thanks for jumping in with your Ogre army and sharing with us.

First impression of the mino body Ogres you've created was... "I dunno.." but the poses and the painted one have won me over. They look ready to smash and eat someone or something! Great work!

Amazing work mate incredible.

awesome putty work you got there... makes the ogres look more mascular.. than fat.

Thanks for the comments! Yeah, they're big lads, they actually do have quite a bit of fat added compared with the minos they were based on, it just doesn't look that chubby since they're so big.

Time for an update!

I've painted a couple more rank and file ironguts (below)





I'm a bit annoyed with how similar these guys look. I just didn't put that much thought into assembling these guys and it was an accident that they ended up with the same arm pose, torso and helmet. By the time I noticed I couldn't be bothered to cut them up again so these guys will just have to look like twins. It's not so bad in the unit (I just painted them together to do both furs at once.)

Since I've got a third of the unit painted, I decided to do a character model, my Slaughtermaster:







Incidentally, the bases were done quickly - I basecoated these guys quickly to get them 3-colours ready for a tournament and I'm now going back to paint the whole army properly. I'll come back and redo the bases eventually, when I get around to making a display base for them.

i love the slaughter master it looks amazing thats some realy nice work you have done there

That back is really gross!!

So the Ironguts are done, just about (still need to do the bases but I'm going to wait and do the whole army at once)









Next up, BSB I think.

Those look really awesome gutlord! 

I can imagine the pain of working with GS alot, I'm still hoping I'll manage what I'm going to do with my army.
I wasn't that impressed by the first looks, but dear lord they look nice now. Not a great fan of the slaughtermaster's back, but once again job well done, since it literally had me shivering in disgust.
 
So, any nice background story? 
-Birdhunter

Looks great! Don't stop now... I want to see more of these burly Ogre beasts!!

Perhaps a tutorial for converting the mino body to an Ogre is in order?

These are looking fandabbydozy, good work!

So, any nice background story? 
-Birdhunter

Ha, I've got this cool background about how all the characters go in the Irongut unit with the Rune Maw 

Naw, I don't really have much of a background story but in the long run I want to build a display board and build every unit around an ogre raiding force attacking a caravan. I want to make each unit a little mini-diorama, with either extra elements or via unit fillers. Long ways to go yet!

Looks great! Don't stop now... I want to see more of these burly Ogre beasts!!

Perhaps a tutorial for converting the mino body to an Ogre is in order?

Well, the rest of my army is going to be "normal" ogre sized, I was only ever planning to make the Ironguts and heroes super-sized.

As for a tutorial, since these guys ended up being entirely greenstuff apart from the arms, weapons and heads, it'd end up being largely a greenstuff tutorial, but it's possible I suppose. I wasn't planning to make more until the new book comes out.

That said, I do have a thread I was working on when I started my Tyrant over on Warseer:
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=287129

And a bit more detail in the blog I started over there on the structure of the ironguts:
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=296897

These are looking fandabbydozy, good work!

Heh, cheers. That's right, they're fandabbydozy 12-foot killing machines... 

Wowzer!  And I thought my Tyrant mino conversion was good, its average in comparison.  Excellent work, and great painting to boot.  Can't wait to see more.

Realy good models Gutlord! The irongut with the 2handed club and fur coat is out of this world good!

WOW!!!
It looks GREAT!

Damn those are nice!!

Cant wait to see more

Cheers, but the painting on your blog, Darkritual, has put mine to shame - I'm going to have to go back and do some extra work on my ogres!

Thx!

Are u ok if ill do my chars the same way u did your ironguts ? 

It's been a while since I updated this blog. I've pretty much finished this army so I'll try to update with the rest of the army.

The most recent model I've been working on is a maneater I've made from scratch. I've cast this guy so I plan to make a whole unit of samurai as my maneaters (although many have commented that they might be better as leadbelchers).

Casted hey.... Planning on selling?

This blog has escaped me up until now.

The iron guts look fantastic. Really bulky and imposing as they should do. Fantastic sculpting on there too. Like the commitment for the samurai too, bet that was one heck of a job!

The only thing I'm not too sure about is your tyrant! It is of course only WIP so I will reserve judgement but the mouth looks a little off (plus surely he will look tiny next to your iron guts!?

Casted hey.... Planning on selling?

It has occurred to me, but I don't have a vacuum chamber yet so I have more bubbles than finecast. 

How much interest would there be if I did sell them?

Like the commitment for the samurai too, bet that was one heck of a job!

It took a while!

The only thing I'm not too sure about is your tyrant! It is of course only WIP so I will reserve judgement but the mouth looks a little off (plus surely he will look tiny next to your iron guts!?

I'll post a finished and painted picture. Although he's far from tiny! He's bigger than the iron guts. He's about twice the height of a normal GW bull.

Having had the opportunity to play against this army last weekend, I have to tell you:  It is one of the most awesomely modeled and painted armies out there.  Every model is converted just right to be interesting and full of character - and all models have a superb paint job.  The shooting ironblaster, the comet of Casandora token, the mournfang cavaly ... every aspect of the army is well done (so post lots of pictures and show them off!)

In a field of 68 competitors for Fantasy at Brawler Bash VI - this army won best painted.  It was well deserved.  (Gutlord Inquisitor also won best overall - also well deserved).

I really enjoyed our game, and I hope we get to play another at Southern Assault, next year's Brawler Bash, etc.

-Snark

Thanks, appreciated. I think your tyrant needs the big name "Tyrantslayer" after he took down my tyrant in personal combat!

I will post a batrep of my games, including ours at some point.

My Ironblaster:



Tyrant





And a size comparison shot:

Loving the Tyrant! Particularly liking the tattoo and the marble affect on the hammer.  Nice work! 

These look great! Keep 'em coming!


HG

Well that explains the tyrant model! Looking fantastic! 

Been working on a samuari head for my samurai maneaters:





Quite happy with it visually but sadly I don't think it's going to work, I've got the scale out a little bit (again) so it's a bit too big, even for my massive samurai's body. I'll stick it on a body and see if it looks okay but I think it's just going in the bits box.

Excellent paint job on the iron blaster - nice details and brush work.

The tyrant model almost looks too clean/smooth - but it gives it an kinda rockin' old school look.

Keep it up!

That Tyrant is really something.