Two headed ogres

I am planning on making my ogres a bit of a Tzeentch theme to them and want to make my butchers have 2 heads. Has anyone done a conversion using the ogre kingdoms? or does anyone know of someone doing this and have pictures? I am trying to base it off of the two headed ogres magis of of warcraft 2 and 3, not sure if there are any in WoW never played it...

ANyway any on have any pictures? I am mainly having troubles thinking of how to sculpt the necks.

I am in the process of putting together and painting a butcher for my OK army for a GT, I am not painting them in a chaos scheme, but I do have my own theme.  I have done several conversions in the past, and I have looked at the extra ogre heads myself and thought about how I want to use them.  I was thinking of mantle pieces for my dwarfs or something in honesty. hehe  However, that is just a tit for tat thing, since I have a engineer from an old blister pack that is covering his ears... or as it looks to me cowering from an enemy being mounted on one of my ogre bases.  I am thinking the tyrant myself for that.


Anyways, I would look into two heads that are looking different directions, either one down, and one to the right, or something like that.  The reason I would look them in that way is that space is going to be tight, you are going to need all the room you can get.  I would also have them looking a neutral direction or outward from the model, so they are not pinching the space in the middle, more than they have too.   

I would then determine how much, if any at all, you need to file down or trim from the side of the heads that will be touching.  I would also make sure that the hair will at least look somewhat natural once you splice these two together.  If you can not find a good match with that, it doesn't break the deal, but makes you have to modify it more imo.

I would dry place them with sticky stuff to see if it looks right, without glue, and then decide if you will want to add a base to the body or head so they match up better.   You might even have to change how the body looks, if the heads are too wide for the small part of the neck portion and it looks weird than you might want to cut and sculpt that area back up some.

I would absolutely get a fast drying agent for your glue since these heads are going to need to be held without sliding around.  The way I would put the heads on is by spraying the drying agent on the torso of the model, and putting the glue on the head.   I would also use a small amount of glue and use it to just tac it down.

once you have both heads tac'd down, I would gently wash the model to remove the drying agent, and let the model completely dry out.   I would then get  small tip or syringe to place the glue below the head, and not on the outside of it all.  I know that a syringe might be hard to find, but that is the general idea, it doesn't need to be a medical tool. hehe

A two headed Butcher though can not be too random of an idea that no one has done it before, I am sure someone has more to offer on this.   I think I will do this to my BSB though, and make it a real centre piece.

Ok mate, here is what I did, I got my new Bruiser in today, so I started modeling him up.  I used the techniques I talked about above, and added a rock to it.  He is pinned with a 3/4 long pin to that, so he is not going anywhere.  The weakest points on him are the top and the bottem part of the standard, and the sword.  The issues I had there is, the hand size.  There is a huge difference between a normal Ogre hand and a hero hand.  It looked a little weird, so I had to work a little harder on it.

The right hand now has a sword, and was the hand that had a hammer in it, the standard arm is the arm with the sword in the package.  I did make a slight adjustment to the the belly plate too, I cut the hilt of the sword off, so that it looked like he was holding that weapon now.

When it came to his head, I am pretty happy, however the space is limited there.  between the armor on his arms, and the gnoblar on his shoulder I had a small amount of room.  I chose to use the two heavily armored heads that he comes with to help hide how two necks fit.. or don't fit into that space.  One could imagine that maybe they share a neck instead or something.

I am ordering more primer so it will be a week or so before I have even started painting him, but he will be painted soon. hehe









Edit:  There is a rod that runs the whole length of the standard, but it is narrow than the standard's tube, I also added filler so that the rod was in contact and glued at several points through the tube.

Here is the mostly final product... I have still have some more small details to do like clear gloss to make the blood fresher looking and what not.

This picture is before the weathering wash I put on to show a crisp detail on the standard.  In dim light it is harder to see than a contrasting color, but I like the use of the silver for the detail.



This is a close up of the super tiny Gnoblar on his shoulder, what is interesting to me is I more detail in this picture than I do sitting at my desk.  I need to touch up his extremely small nails... lol


The weapon arm of the BSB, I am using less blood and gore, since he doesn't look like he just be-headed someone, and looks more like the person who did that four years ago, and now lets others pick the fights for him.



This is a close up of the rocks and how I am doing them for my whole army, only the Champions, Bruisers and the Tyrant will be on large rocks though, the rest will just have smaller rocks around the base.  I am using a multi color approach to my bases with grey, grey highlights, vermin brown, and a black wash over both.  Then I used a scorched styled static grass, and some moss on the rocks to break up the rocks and hide mold lines.



Here is the whole model after a black wash over certain areas, and rusting effects over others, my goal was to try and make him different from others who are not wearing magical armor since he is.  My army is going to be mostly bronze armor and chainmail when worn.