The Thunderguts

I had planned on doing a Nurgle themed army once I got the new Ogre book. I ditched the Chaos theme but kept the guts!

I am now doing an army from the infamous Thuderguts Tribe. One of the first things I decided was that there would be no gut plates in the army. I was never really a fan of them and I found that sculpting guts and bellies was pretty easy once you get the hang of it.

The fluff to my force would be that to join the tribe, each ogre would have to eat so much in one sitting, that his gut plate would burst off. I think that fits the greedy nature of the Thunderguts well.

On to the army WIP's...

Tyrant / Brusier



Bruiser BSB



Slaughtermaster



Butcher





Crusher



Ogres



Ironguts





Sabreboars (counts as Sabretusks)



Leadbelchers



Snow Trolls (counts as Gorgers)



Ironblaster on sled





Mournfangs (with converted heads)

Giant

Love those conversions, I spies a very characterful and thematic army ahead! Consider me impressed, matey, for the list of things I like here is rather long:

- Bare Guts troops and heroes!
- The Tyrant's classic olde head
- The Sled mounted Ironblaster
- The beasties ( Mournfangs, Gorgers and Sabrenboars)
- The classic River Troll heads
and
- that olde wheel on the Leadie!

Lots of nice touches there, looking forrard t' see them painted.

Cheers,

Captn M.

Shouldn't you call them no Iron guts!   

Very true!

Some more WIP's...

Ogrestar







Unit fillers

WOW nice!

I like those conversions alot! Looking forward to seeing some of them painted.

Thanks fellas! Just got a ton of the new GW paints, priming and painting will commence next week.

Firebelly WIP

The theme for this army really impresses me and the sculpting is outstanding. I will be sure to follow this gnoblog.

Thanks!

Some WIP of my painting so far...

Nice job on the skin on that Ogre! I also really like the belly. 

Chris

Thanks cm!

Got some more close to being finished today...

Those look really great all in a unit like that! Great job on making the green stuff so smooth!

Chris

Thanks Chris!

MOAR!

Love everything but the giant is on the wrong base and the IB-Sled needs a little work IMO.  Rest is top notch

Loving the guts....would hate to see that horde charging at me.

I just realized that besides the beards they look like a bunch of angry teen mothers!  Watch out MTV will be coming for your army

I just realized that besides the beards they look like a bunch of angry teen mothers!

That is terrifying.

Lots of cool conversions in this blog though!

They look awesome! Keep up the good work!

Chris

Scary indeed Johnny!

Some WIP Leadbelchers...

Re-did the Mournfang riders, liking them much better now!

Gorgers almost done!

Really love the river troll with Iron fists.  Looks utterly brutal! 

Pulled the Guts back out recently and got a game in. Made me miss em'! I'm working on getting them finished up before summer now. 

Standard Bearer

Very impressive stuff you got going on here! I love the army concept and your sculpting is simple but it looks so effective! Have a Gnoblar on me!

Very nice work done here! I really like the bull heads on the mournfangs and those gorgers look amazing!

How did you do your bare guts? they look really nice and smooth,
Cheers,
TLK

Thanks fellas!

It took a few tries, but after a few, it got fairly easy. First I cut off the sides of the belt where the gut plate would attach. Then I just rolled up a ball about the size of the gut (it's better to go big here instead of skimping; the smaller ones I made at first looked pretty silly on them) and stuck it on. Then it's just using yur fingers to smooth it out, maybe pull it down some to make it look like there's some actual weight on the belly. The sides were smoothed down and then I hid where they attached to the body with weapons, bitz, etc.

I think your guts look cool. Did you think about giving them hair on there stomachs? The conversions look good also.