Redletter's Gnoblog

Hello All,

I am new to the Ogre Stronghold, actually I am new to Ogres in general. I have started building and painting an Ogre army in the past two weeks. I have only picked up a box of Ironguts, a box of Mournfang, and a Thundertusk.

So before we get into the photos let me go ahead and put up my Ogre Achievments!

My achievements   

1. Gettin Started - Play a game of warhammer using the new ogre book
2. Going Large - Play a game of warhammer of over 2000 points using the new ogre book
3. Brace for impact! - During a game, an ogre unit successfully charges and rolls 10+ on the dice
4. I'm in charge! - play a game with the new book using a tyrant in your army
5. Incoming! - during a game, lose at least 3 ogres to a single war machine shot
6. Look what we can do! - have a mornfang rider successfully parry an attack
7. Oooo, shiny! - buy one of the models new to the ogre range
8. That's huge! - build a stonehorn or thundertusk model
9. Sigh! - lose more than 3 ogres to any one casting of a spell that involved you taking an initiative test as part of it's resolution
10. I didn't mean it lads - lose a spellcaster to the "snake eyes" effect of grut's sickle
11. Boom! Hur, Hur, Hur - field a unit of 5+ leadbelchers and shoot with them at least 4 times in a single game.
12. Say hello to my little friend! - Field an ironblaster in your army
13. Still loving it - play 5 games using the new book rules
14. Crush the thinlings - take a new book ogre army to a tournament
15. Getting colder - field a thundertusk OR a unit of yhetees in your army
16. It’s freezing! - Field more than one thunder tusk AND a unit of yhetees in your army
17. Getting warmer! - Field a firebelly in your army
18. Hot! Hot! - Field more than one firebelly in your army
19. Unleash Hell! - field 2 scraplaunchers and 2 iron blasters in your army
20. One for the cauldron - paint an ogre model and post it on the stronghold
21. Paint a unit of ogres
22. Here Kitty! - field 1 or more lone sabretusks in your army
23. Win a game using ogres vs. beastmen.
24. Win a game using ogres vs. Dwarfs
25. Does this taste funny to you? - Win a game using ogres vs. Daemons of chaos
26. Win a game using ogres vs. High elves
27. Win a game using ogres vs. Wood elves
28. Win a game using ogres vs. Dark elves
29. franzfurters - Win a game using ogres vs. Empire
30. Tastes like chicken - Win a game using ogres vs. Lizardmen
31. Stake Out - Win a game using ogres vs. Vampire counts
32. Past their sell-by date - win a game using ogres vs. Tomb kings
33. Eat your greens - Win a game using ogres vs. orcs and goblins
34. Win a game using ogres vs. Warriors of chaos
35. Overtyrant - win a game using ogres vs. Ogres
36. Tinned food - win a game using ogres vs. Bretonnia
37. Rats! - win a game using ogres vs. Skaven
38. Convert one of the new range of ogre models
39. Oops! - destroy either a scraplauncher or an ironblaster with a misfire
40. We don't bicker! - Field an army containing 4+ units of gnoblars
41. No auto-wounds for you! - have a butcher or slaughtermaster get hit with a poisoned attack
42. What that  coming over the hill? - Field a unit of 4+ mornfangs
43. Now you see me - field a unit of scouting maneaters
44. Hunger! - field 3 gorgers in an army
45. Hahahaha! - kill 3+ models in a single use of the gnoblar trappers rule.
46. Fork in the eye! - kill an enemy character with a scraplauncher killing blow
47. I'm special - field any one of the ogre special characters in your army
48. The maw! - Successfully use the large template version of the maw spell to kill an enemy model
49. The maw the merrier! - have the large template version of maw spell roll a misfire and kill one or more of your ogres.
50. Oh no you don't - use the greedy fist item to consume the magical properties of a weapon
51. I Heart you - use the hellheart to cause miscasts in 2+ enemy wizards in one use.
52. Hole is where the heart is - cause an enemy wizard to dimensional cascade and go down a hole using the hellheart.
53. Its mine, MINE! - use the gnoblar Thiefstone to steal an item from an enemy character.
54. Just the lads - field an army containing ONLY ogres, no animals, gnoblars, etc.  Bonus if you also win.
55. You can't touch this - pass a 4+ ward vs flaming with a firebelly.
56. Start a gnoblog for your ogre army
57. Update pics into your ogre gnoblog on at least 4 separate occasions.
58. Use the thunder mace in a game to kill 10+ models with thunder crush attacks (does not have to be all in one attack)
59. Why do I bother? - lose 3 games in a row with your ogre army
60. Overpowered! - win 3 games in a row with your ogre army.
61. That's no place for a hatchet - roll a 2 on the scraplauncher misfire chart
62. Jugger! - roll a 10+ when successfully charging with a stone horn
63. Re-roll this! - subject 3+ high elf units to numbing chill in the same combat phase
64. Oh shi-! - Have a slaughermaster or butcher die from rolling a 1 on Bloodgruel.
65. Seigebroken - Hit a building with Seigebreaker.
66. OH GOD MY FACE! - Kill an enemy character with  the chaintrap from the Thundertusk.
67. Dancing On Sunshine -. Have a character pass his Initiative test from being hit by Purple Sun
68. Sunburned - Kill an Ogre with a Purple Sun that YOU cast.
69. Why Can't I Hold All These Items? - Roll 120pts for Golgfag magic item allowance.
70. Buffy The Ogre Caster - Have all of your Slaughtermasters spells be augments.
71. It's Rude To Bragg - Have Bragg kill a Large Target in a challenge.
72. WHAT THE FU-BOOOM! - Destroy an enemy model with an Ironblaster misfire.
73. Soups on! -  Have Skrag kill enough models to unlock all of his special rules in one game
74. Crusher - play 10 games with the new ogre book
75. Bruiser - play 20 games with the new ogre book
76. Tyrant - play 50 games with the new ogre book
77. Maneater - play with the new ogre book in 5 different venues
78. ker-splat! - kill an enemy unit with just your impact hits alone.
79. Box clever - construct, buy or convert a new carry case for your ogre army
80. Altered beast power up! - boost every unit in your army with a single augment from the lore of the great maw
81. ...and you play Ogres!? - Have more war machine weapons in your army than your opponent.
82.  Small, but many -have a gnoblar horde break an enemy unit.
83. We're all there - have a unit of at least 12 ogres get into the enemy deployment zone with no casualties taken.
84. My horde is bigger then yours - have an ogre horde break an enemy horde.
85. So much power lost - have an ogre unit roll 10 or more and still fail a charge.
86. Rambo or Conan? - have a lone ogre lose a combat but pass his break test.
87. You call that a club?.... THIS is a club - cause 6 S10's with Siegebreaker on a unit occupying a building.
88. Ogre zoo - Paint at least one of the Stonehorn, Thundertusk, Mournfang and Sabreatusk models.
89. She's a Maaaaaneater! - paint the female Maneater model.
90. They're not bloody Eagles you know! - Run a Hunter in a unit of 5 or more Sabretusks.
91. But they're soooo cute! - Fill your whole core with Gnoblars.
92. Bird brained - kill an enemy model with a hunter's blood vulture.
93. Timber! - lose an ogre when a giant (yours or your opponent's) falls on one of your units.
94. Thinling roast! - kill 5 enemy models with a single firebelly breath weapon blast
95. Cats paw - Kill a skaven weapon team with a sabretusk
96. Halitosis - use 3 breath weapon attacks in a single game.
97. Billy no-mates - field an army with only 1 character in it.  He cannot deploy in a unit or join one.  Bonus if he survives the game.
98. Steady now! - Use freehand to paint a banner for an ogre unit
99. Da lads! - post a pic of your entire army on the stronghold in your ogre gnoblog.
100. Feast master - place 1st, or best in race, at a tournament.
101. Brrrr! - field more than one thundertusk in your army OR more than one unit of yhetees in your army

Lets start with the Mournfang's since I painted them first...






I will post some pictures with the riders tomorrow. Also coming tomorrow... pictures of the four Ironguts.

It's some very nice mournfangs. I like the depth in colour you achieved on their fur.

Looking forward to see the rest of them.

Nightsoul

So I realize that I haven't posted in a couple of days but I am posting a large update tonight. But first here are the finished Mournfangs.


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Next Up.... Ironblaster.

This piece was so much fun to paint. I can't wait to do a second one.


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Next up.... Ironguts

So my first four ironguts turned out pretty much exactly how I wanted. Hope you enjoy. 



Ironguts by theredletters, on Flickr

Ironguts by theredletters, on Flickr

Now for my favorite piece from the past few days of painting. My Giant. I know he isn't the best in game, but I play mostly friendly games, and really love using the giant. So here he is...


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very very nice! keep it up!

I like that deep and solid  red you got on that armour! mind sharing how you did it?

Clean and nice painting.

I like it!

@ecwh070: Its not difficult at all, I prime solid black then mist with white primer after. The red is just Citadel Base Mephiston Red (formerly Mechrite Red) with a Citadel Shade Agrax Earthshade (formerly Devlan Mud) applied liberally over it.

Working on a unit of Ogres (Bulls) today.


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Finished the unit of Ogres (all except the Crushers ironfist, he is getting one from the mournfang sprue later this week). This post accomplishes quite a few Ogre Achievments moving me over the 20 threshold. YAY! This is my first freehand banner as well.


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So after much debate and deliberation I guess I have changed my mind, This will not be an Ironskin tribe, This will be a Blood Guzzlers tribe. I love the spider fluff and I will be representing it highly on all future models.

Speaking of which.... I am now prepping my "counts as" Thundertusk model.


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nice colours on the mournfangs! Looks very similar to mine i think it works rather nicely!

Great start to your ogres! looking forward to seeing the spider/ogre crossovers.

@Dreadboi: I am not surprised you think they look like yours since i followed your tutorial almost exactly. I don't have an airbrush so i do something a little simpler on the bone/tusk, but the outcome it works for me. Thanks for stopping by and checking them out.

Awesome painting, keep up the good works!

Ok wow, it has been w while since I updated anything here.

Well I have started 8 more ogres...

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Finished my Firebelly...


And remodeled my unit standard bearer...


I am currently assembling my second Ironblaster. Ill get some shots of that later tonight.

This is the first spider-themed Ogre army I will have seen. I must say I am quite excited to see the army progress

JJ

So today I finished my second Ironblaster. Pretty excited to have these both done. Here are some shots of the pair of them together. The only thing still remaining is the bloody fist of the second one. I am out of my blood paint and will pick up more tomorrow.


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I love it!!!!

Looking good!

So after seeing TuShan's BSB in the "Show Us Your...BSB" thread, I knew I had to make one like it. So here is my newly completed BSB with some WIP shots as well. This is one of my first attempts ate sculpting more than just hair or fur.




And Painted...



Now that its done, I may try to gently heat up the hooks so they adjust and hang a little more natural. As well as the two stone danglers. I should have done it first but, oh well. It was a first attempt, all in all I am happy with it.

Very nice! Where is that hand from, stonehorn x-bow?

@old one: It's from the chain trap

I was rather close, thanks!

So tonight as part of my monthly painting challenge I put the finishing touches on 8 more ogres. Only 6 more to go.




I also ordered the bit to start making my Maneaters. People of the forum do not be surprised if you see some of your ideas or conversions for Maneaters pop up in my Gnoblog... I'm looking at you Dreadboi.

wow-amazeballs !!! am totaly blown away by this army. good clean lines, crisp colours and not too much fancy converting. Would you be able to do a stage by stage painting guide or even scribble down how you did the ogres?

@johnnyandbex: thanks for the praises. I actually keep most of my painting pretty simple. My method for painting the ogres comes from a slightly more basic version of Dreadboi's tutorial (linked in his signature). I prime black then mist a white primer from about 45 degrees above the models. Then I paint the skin Cadian Fleshtone. Next I add Reikland Fleshshade in all the crevasices. Once that is completly dry, I clean up all the over wash with Cadian Fleshtone again. Everything else is just a single color with a wash. I use Agrax Eartshade on everything except the skin and metal colors. The metal colors get Nuln Oil. The bloody fist are painted fully and then i add a generous application of Tamiya Clear Red paint. It's all pretty simple and easy as long as you give the washes time to dry.

so clean and lovely! Well done chap

also, as you have no gnoblars to speak of, i shall give you Mr Grubnut...treat him well 

Have just noticed this gnoblog and it's great! Looking forwards tO an update on the 'stonehorn'

@dreadboi: thank you kindly sir. I shall love him, and squeeze him, and pet him, and... Well you get the point.

@belchfist beastkiller: glad you found it, as for the giant spider conversion, it is still on the schedule to complete but it's going to be one of the last pieces I do because I am preparing for a tournament in October that he probably won't see action in. Next on the schedule for conversions are the Maneaters.

So yesterday I went to my LGS to see if my Sabertusk had arrived... they had not . Sooo... i bought a box of Ogres. The last six bulls for my army. Between last night and tonight I have almost finished them. Again I have handless ogres. Hopefully they will be done tomorrow.

So I have been working on a butcher for my army, and here is the results. I am not sure if I like him or not. Probably going to have to paint him a see how he turns out. I am still considering adding an apron of some sort.

I know the lighting is bad but here are the photos...

Butcher w/Hellheart

Update:
So I decided to add the apron after all. Looks a lot better to me.

So I decided to add the apron after all. Looks a lot better to me.

Agreed, he's looking quite good.

He looks infinitely better with the apron IMHO Superb work, and a great hellheart sculpt!

JJ

I love your butcher! Great job!

So I finished the butcher tonight. I am pretty pleased with him. Thoughts?

Excellent work!

Been working on my final 2 sabertusk today. Almost finished.

Finished!

Also started working on my second bruiser. He has a sword of anti-heros and will also carry a shield.

Ok guys what are your thoughts on these shields? its just tac'd in place right now as I cant decide. Help!


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They're both cool, but I prefer the first one.

Yup, the first one looks more ogrish.

definitely the first one.

Ok round 2...


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number 2 for me!

None for me, a modified minotaur shield would look better I think.

If that is an option.

Numba 1! It always has to be #1!

Number 1 but put the shoulder plate on the right shoulder of your ogre. OR, try putting an Ironguts plate on the right shoulder.

My point is it will look more balanced with a shoulder plate on the other side! 

@shadowlord: the minotaur shield is an option, but of the three I really only like one and it is set aside for a maneater. (the one with the beast skull and the one with the 4 horns are the ones I am not using)

@FUNkY-T: I considered moving the armour shield to the other side but the fig has sculpted shrapnel imbedded into his shoulder that I like a lot and want to keep so it doesnt really fit, plus the sword clutters it up as well.

There is an unpictured third option now...

#3: I am considering leaving the armor plate on his shoulder, but instead of a shield, placing some heads dangling that he is holding by the hair. Just a thought. Of course this version will require some extra work, but it does seem like a good idea.

Here is an image that kind of shows the look (minus the dangling heads of course).


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I think I like your new option 3.
I always like the idea of stealing some heads from your main opponents army....just little more threatening than some random heads

Yea my main opponent and I do a lot of bit swapping for just such reason.

So I have been working on a butcher for my army, and here is the results. I am not sure if I like him or not. Probably going to have to paint him a see how he turns out. I am still considering adding an apron of some sort.

Hey Buddy,

Loving the Gnobblog, your painting is great saw your butcher and loved what I saw, its what I wished my butcher turned out like lol! Here's a link to my attempt: http://paint-hammer.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Butcher, looks like we used very similar parts, small world! Oh and RE the  Brusier, im planning something very similar but for my BSB, im gonna use the actual shield shoulder pads from the thundertusk kit for his enchanted shield and also going to use the Thudertusk pole/banner on the BSB's back with the stonehorn's "skull" as the banner really looking forward to doing this conversion!

@RJ_Payne: hey man thanks for checking out the log. Also, your butcher looks great. Well done. That BSB sounds cool.

Also:

While I am still debating the look of my new Bruiser, I have decided to start converting my last character... The Slaughtermaster. Here are some early WIP shots.


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later...


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Later Still...

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Ok so I may have reached a stopping point tonight. Its almost 1am here.


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For those of you wondering where I am going with this SM sculpt, this batch of updates will give you a better idea.


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The latest additions to the sculpt are fantastic Really coming along now!

JJ

@JJ: thanks, I am not really loving it in person tho. I am considering scrapping the hea bit. It's just not turning out how I anticipated. We'll see I guess.

Oh right. What is it, in particular, that you're not too keen on?

JJ

Sculpting work is really nice but the feel from the extended jaw makes me think of the Mummy and more of a chaos/ mutated SM rather than just one who eats lots.

K

lol would have to be lore of maw with a jaw like that

@JJ: i really like the belly and apron that's all fine. The jaw though isn't really giving me the warm-fuzzies, so to speak. I might just go with a standard butcher head. I ordered a leadbecher bellower head to work with. We will see.

@Komone: I kind of agree

@Steam Titan: It is my Maw caster, but as you can read it probably will get reworked.

In other news:
I am extending my Ironguts from 6 out to 9 so I will have some images of those soon, and I also started working on my Maneater musician. He is a very inspired by Dreadboi's dwarf musician. In fact "inspired" probably isn't the right word... i think the word I am looking for is "copied."

Fair enough I very much like the distended jaw, but each to their own

JJ

Ok so I did end up scrapping the previous head/jaw. Just wasn't working for me. I have only made minor updates as I am waiting on the mailman to bring me some new materials. But I do like the new changes. I really just added the hook hand, and the piercings on the shoulders (there are a total of 4). Oh and reworked the base.


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Almost forgot about my first Maneater. The musician. The idea is Dreadboi's I just attempted to copy it.


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I like your dwarf musician....very well stolen

Yes, giving complete props to Dreadboi I am probably going to replicate his whole command group there. Hope he doesn't mind.

while i'm flattered that you are thinking of me, i'm struggling to picture which command group you are on about!

Maybe command group isn't, the best term but, I'm referring to the Champion standard and musician of your maneaters

but, but, i haven't done my maneaters yet! 

I'm very much looking forward to them!

well I feel silly, I thought those maneaters were yours. Now i need to find out whos they are. My apologies in advance to the actual owner.

Today I made a lot of progress on my Slaughtermaster. He isn't completely finished but he is close.


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And here is a shot of my updated horde, in full deployment....


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is the claw hand he has from the skaven giant rat handle prod pole thing?

well I feel silly, I thought those maneaters were yours. Now i need to find out whos they are. My apologies in advance to the actual owner.

Lol!

They are mine.

Nice SM you have there - the hand roast spit is hilarious.

@Steam Titan: I'll be honest, I have no idea where that bit is from. I found it on the floor under my hobby table. It probably came from one of my friends minis, but they don't play Skaven. So I don't know.

@Shadowlord: Man I am sorry I miscredited those Maneaters. They are great and I intend to duplicate a few of them.

The claw hand is the pronged end of a pitchfork, either from the spares from the Giant sprue, or from the Empire Militia kit...

JJ

The giant sprue makes sense. That's where it must have came from.