Swiss's Chaos Ogre Army. May 30th

I know I asked a question in another thread with some pics, so I hope I'm not stepping on any toes by starting a blog here!


The theme of my army is Chaos Ogres, and while I contemplated having all the Chaos gods represented, I'm a Nurgle fan at heart so I'm doing them all as Nurgle to make for a disgusting and disturbing army. I first got the idea making Nurgle Chaos Ogres for my WoC, but found I didn't want to field them... but loved making them. So it kind of expanded into doing an Ogre army with all kings of crazy conversions and making something nightmarish. I know some may disapprove, but vanilla Ogres never really appealed to me... I need to have a cool theme for them.


It might be a while before I get to painting them, as I'm wanting to do a lot of work on modeling them first to make them look amazing. Every model should have conversion work done, and not in a subtle way. However, for paint scheme I'm thinking of *not* doing the gray skin tones, but going with the tanish skin tones much like in the new book. Also blues and greens here and there for a color that pops and catches the eyes, probably using tattoos to enhance that effect.

One goal of this army is to have an army that can be stiff competition in appearance scores. Even if I don't win best appearance or anything, I want it to have a solid standing in appearance and for people to enjoy seeing it across the table from them.

Ironguts...

Well these seem to be the heart of most Ogre armies I've seen, and there is just something appealing about a giant ogre thumping even some beasts on the head.










The Mournfang are conversion from the Rot fly kit with Ogres. Had to dremel off the legs and some other things here and there, but they're coming along.




Going with two units of these, and I'm they're properly creepy and easily believable as Mournfang. Going to be careful with basing either using magnetics or a unit filler behind them so I can cross use them as Rotflies.

Wow, those Rotflies are creepy...so creepy I don't want to imagine them across the table from me.

Third WIP conversion. This guy is the bellower. I've decided to name him Jim-Bob.

Wow, those Rotflies are creepy...so creepy I don't want to imagine them across the table from me.

 I hope that's a good thing.

As a fellow son of Papa Nurgle there's only 4 words I can use to express how much I love these models

OH MY FREAKIN' GAWD!!!!

I can't wait to see them all finished and painted up!

Thanks guys!


Here's the WIP of the Butcher/Slaughtermaster. Will probably give him an apron, which will have some freehand painting on it. Worried he doesn't quite cut it.

Early WIP of a conversion. He's going to be a unit filler representing two ogres. He's splitting in two like an amoeba. Still needs quite a bit of Greenstuff work.

Ha ha ha... That is awesome!

Yeah! That's a great idea man! Looks good!!!

Still needs some greenstuff work, as I'm having to do it in layers.

I really like this new guy and the idea behind him, your imagination and creativity is positively disturbing and I love it!

Debating if the Unit filler should have a foot growing out of the split or not. Leaning towards not.

I would go with no foot too.

Yeah, the feed back I am getting confirms my gut (no pun intended) instinct to not use the foot.


Debating on what I want to do with the leadbelchers.

Option 1) With converted heads (all my heads will be converted), I can have them open enough so they're projectile vomiting. That will be their 'attack'... projectile vomiting on the enemy. The randomness being how rancid their last meal was. Downside is, what do I do with their arms? Conventional weapons? Will the projectile vomit be enough to let the opponent know they're not just Bulls?


Option 2) Organic guns. Basically using some tubing I bought at Menard's with some greenstuff work I can make it look like an organic/warped barrel that is coming from their arm(s) firing at them.

Organic belly guns (no gut plate then) that fire balls of bile and pus?
G_H

I'm liking the idea of the belly guns a lot, thanks for the suggestion. Will have to ponder it.


I think I've got him mostly the way I want him. Just a little smooting on some of the skin, and some gut plate work and he should be done.

I also like the idea of organic guns but perhaps mix it up a little, have one coming from the gut and maybe another ogre with gun arms like the Forge World Daemon Prince of Nurgle. I also like the idea of the vomiting one so perhaps one with a distorted mouth that acts like a cannon (think Soulgrinder with it's Phlegm attacks etc) These would make for a nice varied unit. I can't wait to see what you do though.

Belly guns = Care bear stare

Belly guns = Care bear stare

Might go with the arm-guns, as some have pointed out it'd make sense table top wise.

Wondering if this makes the gut plate split look better on the Amoeba Ogre.

Oooh yeah that looks nice! It makes it look a little less like a straight split and and lot more rotten and fits in nicely with the rest of the model.

Still working on the Amoeba ogre. It's a bit hard to see on the right side of the split, but made it look more organic/fluid in the split of the gut plate.

WIP of the BSB. Made him seem a bit more broad shouldered on the arms by making them a bit wider than a typical Ogre, not to mention the mutations. I think I shall name him Bill and Ted. It's up to you to wonder which head is which... assuming the BSB knows itself...

Awesome work, loving the split Ogre!

BSB work in progress continued. Took some advice and turn the hand holding the book into a tentacle so the proportions remain reasonable. He's already named Bill and Ted, but he needs a fitting title. Sorry, no Grand Poohbahs in this army.



WIP Irongut dude. Found those arms sans weapon, so I made my own. He was tricky as the head and arms were already on. To remain consistent with the heads for the Ironguts, I had to detach the hands, dremel the head, reattach hands cleanly (pinned too) and rebuild the weapon.

A couple more Ironguts. Part of the reason you see liquid greenstuff slathered on various spots on some of my models is I use watered down liquid green stuff to fill in where pieces are glued together to make it a bit more seamless.

Loving the new stuff here. Your BSB (Bill & Ted) is utterly awesome! I wish I had sculpting skills half as good as your so I could do some crazy stuff with my Ogres!

Pretty awesome looking minis in here, some of the most creative chaos conversions I have ever seen. Nice job.

I think you give me a bit too much credit Goretooth, lol. I'm sure there's a lot better stuff out there. I'm just hoping it looks really cool/nightmarish/Nurgly.

WIP of the Giant's head. Nurgle themed Giant for use with my Nurgle Chaos Ogre army and my Nurgle WoC.

WIP Giant. His one arm will have two more 'main' tentacles, perhaps with fangs/hook like teeth. I've got some more crazy stuff prepared for this guy.




So if I had a twisted giant with some mutations would it be disturbing to have a "screaming" mouth with a tongue emerging from it to be one of the legs? This tongue-leg would have warts and perhaps an eyeball on it. This being a second mouth on the lower part of the torso.

WIP Giant. You can see how the first leg turned out, I worry it is terrible as I'm horrible with limbs. You can also see where the second "leg" will be. It's going to be a tongue coming out of that second mouth, probably forked (to better allow for balance). I'll put some warts on it, and maybe an eyeball on the tongue-leg. Right now the wire is there to provide a foundation to sculpt on top of.

*Ulp*. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit...in a good way! Really awesome gear you have going on there, mate.

*Ulp*. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit...in a good way! Really awesome gear you have going on there, mate.

Thanks! That's the reaction I want. I want people to turn their heads... to check the army out, throw up, or both!


WIP of the Giant continued. You can see part of the tongue-leg that he will have and two little eyes in the tongue-leg. Still need to do the other fork of the tongue-leg, add warts, and texture to it.

Taking a break from the giant to work on some other things, here are two sabertusk conversions.


Here is Zach the Sabertusk.




Here's Victor



Victor the Sabertusk will get some more work done on his skin in the center to add some texture to it, to give it a more disgusting feeling to it.

thers some realy nice models in hear, looking foreward to seeing you paint them up

WIP Leadbelchers, still need to do some work on the mouth of the Ogre that is warning. Contemplating having a tube feeding them from various "interesting" points... such as the neck or a container worn like a back pack (think like the Ghostbuster's proton packs... but tanks of goo instead).

Might also touch up the cannons to look more... daemonic.



Also the third sabertusk, done a bit more work on the greenstuff around his 'chest' maw.

Did more work to improve the "barrels" of the first batch of leadbelchers.




Leadbelcher bellower. I shall name him Thunderlungs Sarek.

Fourth and final leadbelcher.

This army is going to be sick painted up

Agreed! I've been following this blog since the early stages and It's all so inspiring. I can't wait to see it all painted in it's disease ridden glory! Who needs the Maw when you have Papa Nurgle 

This army is going to be sick painted up

Agreed! I've been following this blog since the early stages and It's all so inspiring. I can't wait to see it all painted in it's disease ridden glory! Who needs the Maw when you have Papa Nurgle 

Thanks! Looking forward to painting it. Hoping it gets some very high appearance scores. Agreed, Nurgle is best PLAGUE FOR THE PLAGUE GOD! PUS FOR THE PUS TUB!



Early WIP of the "Slugblaster" my Ironblaster conversion. Personally, I think he isn't disturbing enough.

I cannot wait for this army to be painted! Terrifying!

If you don't think the Ironblaster conversion will be disgusting enough, how about making a creature like one of the bugs from Starship Troopers? (Obviously more Nurgle/ Pus inspired than just a straight-forward insect) IIRC they 'fire from behind' if you get my meaning

Still working on the slugblaster to make it look better, but I am taking the time to do a test model.

WIP Test model for the Chaos Ogre army. Not happy with the fleshtones, as flesh is frustratingly hard to paint... and I feel I did a poor job on it. He still needs tattoos/war paint. Debating between green war paint, or tattoos (which would have a hint of blue). Rust effect doesn't show up quite right in the photo, but I'm going for a rusted effect on the weapon. Also not happy with the leather... ugh... I feel like this guy is a big let down.

Also thinking of dropping the blue pants for green pants, honestly.

Might do some highlighting on the skin, but hopefully he looks more Nurgly. Used a little bit of purple wash to give it a bruised feel in parts. Switched pants to green for Nurgly feel. Also need to touch up the eyes a bit to keep them that bright yellow.

Second one looks much better! The skin starts having that diseased rotting look I think you are going for.

The yellow and green detract from the overall grossness for me a bit. Perhaps you have considered making them a bit "dirty" looking? Right now it looks like this fellow just came out of the shop with shiny new slacks and gutplate.

Horrifying... glad to see some paint!
But yeah, I agree with Randroid. You need to show the effects of the rotten Ogres on the metal that they wear.

Love this gnoblog. Your ogres are horrifying, in the best possible way. The word 'lovecraftian' is bandied about a lot but thats the creepy feeling I get looking at your sculpting. Excellent excellent work.

However im my opinion that yellow is crying out for a sepia wash. But then I say that about every model I paint as well. 

The fear I always have with Nurgle themed stuff is ending up losing the "eye catching" part of the appearance, even with decent conversion work. I absolutely understand the need to be more gribbly, but I find myself very hesitant.

Almost debating painting the skin like the Nurgling or pants as they are now, and giving the pants a 'cold' blue effect like he originally had. As I struggle with skin.

Early WIP of the Amoeba Ogre. Still needs freehand work on the gut plate, rust effects, and some other things. Wanting feedback on the skin though. Tried to give it a sickly feel.

I really like how the skin tones have come out on this guy. Just the right amount of decayed/diseased flesh and it fits in with the nurgle theme nicely.

More work on the Amoeba Ogre. Not sure what I want to do with the gutplate, if I want to do some freehand work (and if so, what?) or just leave it there. I kind of like how the yellow turned out on (from our perspective) the right gut plate piece. Going to tweak his arm cloth a bit, but otherwise I'm happy with him... he just needs basing.

Your rusty metal is fantastic.
Perhaps some gore on the Amoeba Ogre, to make the split look less.. nice?

VERY early WIP of one of the Mournfang (or as I call them Ogre-rotfly-centaur things). Still *very* early in the shading of the skin and the carapace. I have at least 4 more things to do with the skin alone. Though the general concept should be clear.

So I was working on my mournfang conversions when, this happened. Is it Papa Nurgle saying he approves?





More pics of the the Mournfang sans giant moth. Still WIP, but progress has been made.

I love your army...  I'm pretty jealous, actually...  I can't wait to see it finished!

Updates on the Ogrerotfly that will be my mournfang.

First of the Sabretusks. Still needs static grass.

Slightly different skin tone than the actual Ogres.

Suitably disgusting turd daemon. Nice. 

More sabretusks.

I think they seem friendly. Don't you? Just imagine them after some "catnip"...

Looking revolting, nice work! I can't wait to see this army in all it's glory!

Looking good so far champ .

Jake

I really like this army the leadbelchers are awesome, but I love the rotfly/ Mournfang; in fact I may actually steal this idea for another project of my own. Which can only mean that now your army is inspirational!
I can't wait to see this lot painted and amassed together, I am sure they will look amazing ranked up on a table. Keep up the good work mate.
G_H

Superb and thoroughly twisted. The fly ogre things are inspired.

That's the second mournfang done. Can also cross use him as "counts as" Juggies and as rot flies. For Mournfang I have them in a unit tray where I use cav bases to fill out their proper base size. This dude needs a name.

I am grateful for all the support and kind comments, I really am. It gives me that extra motivation. I've got some really cool ideas brewing for my "slugcannon" to make it look even more wicked than it already is. Still need to do some carapace work and then... well, let's just say it should be... "interesting".

@Gnoblar_Herder: Sure, go ahead! Thanks, that actually is kind of awesome when people use your ideas. Though, get a dremel rotary tool. It made it A LOT easier. A basic one should do the trick. Mine cost less than $30 with all the kits and such.

More work on the Ironblaster conversion. Instead of having the traditional Ogre crewman... I decided that he should have been partially absorbed by the Slugcannon, with his arms feeding into the cannon. The paperclip shows where the next arm will be feeding to the cannon (another tentacle essentially).

I also made sure the bottom section doesn't look like it's just a giant turd as well. From a top view the (carapace?) like things kind of look like a hang nail in how they grow out.

I can't wait to see the finished results! It's going to look epic!

Wow. Your nurgle ogres are disturbing and amazing.
I'm really looking forward for more of those nightmares.

WIP of the Ironblaster conversion. Contemplating adding actual chains along side to add detail, but I'm not sure. Still needs basing.

More work done on the Ironblaster conversion.

Contemplating extending the armored skirt forward, as that's it's armor (justifying its save), and it helps give it something more than a giant flesh blob.

Also, note the Nurgling acting as the Gnoblar loader. My whole army will have Nurglings running around like Gnoblars. Nurglings... they make good pets!

Hoping the new camera is even better than the last.

Looking good, liking the Nurgling/ Gnoblar. Have you got any pic's of the finished units all together? I imagine it's starting to look a pretty awesome sight on the table.

G_H

Here's the BSB. The yellow isn't nearly as bright in person.

Here's a bunch of the Ironguts.


This is Curly.






The standard bearer, with his Nurgling (Using those as Gnoblars).





This is possibly my favorite Irongut, as I loved how his head turned out... and the Nurgling riding his shoulder is something that seemed like a fun idea to me.

Looking good, 'guts are excellent.
G_H

This is truly a thread dedicated to the glory of Papa Nurgle!

I'm loving your stuff here. The kitbashing and converting of the Plague Drones is my favourite! The models are really close size wise, so the end result looks really balanced. Good job! Can't wait for the next update!

- Loran

Bellower






Champion






The Other Curly





Steve

The Champion is awesome, his tentacle face looks really good.

I also really like the bases you have there, are they made of greenstuff/ sand or is there flock on them? I ask because I would like to try an re-create this for my Chaos Space Marines (mono-Nurgle).

G_H

Slaughtermaster, will chew you up and spit you out...
beyond a doubt...

it pays not to mess with Beavis and Butthead...

Woah, sorry there... got a song in my head as I prep for Waaaghpaca... where we have to sing to get bonuses to spelling/dispelling in one of the scenarios.

Last of the Ironguts



Mournfang unit










Maneaters!!!




The Army so Far
(It's my Warriors of Chaos/Daemons of Chaos display board... I need a new board for the "Rotgut Tribe"). However as I am using the same basing (to be able to cross use units) it works.

Ctulhu-champ! Loving it

These are really well done, as the conversions are very well blended in. What I mean is that there is no clear line where the Chaos bits transition into the Ogre bits. Of course, the different parts can be distinguished quite easily if you've fiddled with the parts (especially the Ogre parts for most of us here ) but the seam is very well blended in

Great work mate, keep it up!

- Loran

This army is looking awesome. When you see it ranked up it certainly looks like a force to be reckoned with.
Nice work.
G_H

Leadblechers!


Bellower



Langdon



Timmy



Locutus the Fat



I had to make an objective with a Rockstar theme for The Midwest Rampage, so I made Nurgly Cyrus riding a wrecking ball.




Currently building my 2nd Ironblaster.

Some disgusting stuff on display here!
Fantastic work, love the leaddies, although im not sure you can use that title for them anymore 

Brilliant work, you must be the envy of every opponent

You didn't think I would stuff with just the leadbelchers, did you?

Second Ironblaster evolution.

Second Ironblaster (or slug cannon as I call them) is done.

This one is a bit taller, and still needs his metal chains for armor.

One the one side I made the tentacles coming feeding the barrel easier to paint through too.

The most frustrating part was, as always, making the Ogre look like he's been absorbed into it.

I also plan on working on both their eyes to make them more lizard like rather than just bland yellow.