W.I.P of my Ogre horde and projects

Hi all,

So first post here and currently plenty of ideas of what to make. Time however is a heavy constrain on my painting hours.

My todo list includes:
Finish my mournfangs (base colors done)
Finish my Ironguts
Basing my Ogres
Model custom Man-eaters from left over Mournfang/iron/stonehorn bits.

But first some WIP pictures of my bash bashed/ converted Ironblaster.

The idea came from another other thread here (http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=26791.0) where there are links to similar projects.

My starting point is an older metal steam tank that I would rather destroy in the process than paint up and let my buddy use as a second tank against my Ogres :  ) I will add parts of a Orc chariot, lot of gnoblars from the Ironblaster (the old tank wont fit an Ogre and maybe the results can proxy both a scraplauncher and ironblaste). The chassis will be based on part of the old siege wagon... I found part of the wagon but not the whole deal so here we go! : ) All pictures are by phone but hopefully I will figure out to work the light source better for the next round of pictures...

The pile of starting bits'n'pieces

The chassis

The outline with the hatch opening modification

If the pictures look squeezed - click the pictures for re-sizing.

My issues so far is:

I still lack a pair of wheels from another chariot..

I dont know whether to use a traditional Empire cannon, the original tank cannon or another bit. The tank cannon is small, impotent and odd so I will skip that - my thought right now is to use an empire mortar barrel as only the tip will be visible anyway and then Ogre-fy the barrel opening somehow.

My Green Stuff skillz are no-existent (so far)

When I do a quick assembly without glue the model lacks some more feeling of being a ogre model. Especially the engine looks too clean and not battle-damaged enough (yet).

Any suggestions so far is more than welcome! Both to how to equip the top part (the old chariot), mount the cannon, general Ogre-fications and other good bits to use : )

And while I am busy doing other things, I can at least post another WIP picture of my ogres:


The guys are missing highlights on weapons/plates and skin... also the bases lack static grass (I still need to find the right color or mixture of colors : )

I tried to get different skin tone for all my ogres to give some diversity.

Converted men eaters - bits from mournfang, ironguts, lead belchers and a dwarf organ gun:

They were fast to make and will hopefully as a unit stand out a bit from the rest of my ogres.









Comments are of course welcome!

Looking good Personally prefer the last man eater. When I seen him I thought "HEY! I'll give my ME's Cigars!?"
 
Ive been thinking about doing a steam tank conversion for a while on an Iron blaster since I hate the model so much! So I for one will be following your WIP shots of it
If you wouldn't mind could you post any step by steps you may have?
 
Chris
 
P.s - Have a Gnoblar!

Thanks for the kind words! Hopefully soon I can add actual ogre pictures! : )

Obviously the paint job on all the models is fantastic, but I REALLY love the basing. Excellent stuff!

Hey all,

So just to break the normal quietness around here I will probably post even less here for the time to come as I will be moving from small Denmark to the big US. Warhammer figures (especially fat ogres) just doesnt go well with a tight packing plan, so until I settle in and figure out how Warhammer is going to work out I might not be around here too much. But hopefully maybe with some other stuff than ogres... we will see.

See you guys around the Stronghold.

Good luck with the move! Look forward to hearing from you.