Boudicca's Celtic Ogres

Hey everybody, I'm brand new to Warhammer and miniature games in general actually. I've been doing this for less than six months and I've got a few models that I want to share with the community and get some advice on modeling, painting and gaming in general. I've played three games now... Won two, though the second win was a team game two-on-two. Ogres for the win guys!

FIRST, some fluff, then I'll post some pics.

So, I'm Welsh born and bred, but I live in the States, so I'm very proud of where I come from (missing home and all). For this reason, I decided to paint my ogres like celts, with curvy blue warpaint, etc. I think it looks great, though I haven't done in on many models yet... most of my models are solidly in the assembled, but not yet painted stage.

I have no idea how to make these images show up in the actual post, so I've attached the images...

The first two pics are of my finished Tyrant, Boudicca. She's the only model I've based so far. She is a Bones Fire Giant Princess model and the second pic shows her size comparison with the regular ogre bulls.

The firebelly is third, the fourth is of pics of the bulls/ironguts that I've finished painting, though they haven't been warpainted up yet... Hope you guys like them, all comments and any advice at all is welcome!

Here's some more pics from the celts...

The first is the model I'm most proud of, the one that took me the longest... Ironblaster!! I converted a little crow's nest for a gnoblar crewman. The gnoblars here are being painted brown - green-skinned goblins don't really have a big part in a celtic mythology, so I went with the brown skinned ones - making them resembles evil little house elves, which I think looks awesome.

Next I have some converted (more like kitbashed actually), but unpainted models. The irongut command: mostly with mournfang parts and then some feral, cursed ogres built from the minotaur sprue, which will stand in for the yhetee models which I dislike.

I do not see the Celtic theme 

Nice work on Boudicca, the glow coming from her spear looks good.  So does her base, if you base your whole army like that it'll look tops.

Well first off welcome aboard! You will find lots of good advice in this community and on the OS in general. For someone who just started painting and playing you have good looking guys and a nice track record battle history so far!!

The celt theme is an amazing colour scheme to work with, the light woad blue matches up very nicely with off white skin tones. The blue paint/tattoos look top notch so far, keep up the ace work and keep us posted on your progress and battle reports.

Keep fighting the good fight

~ConOgre

Looks great mate! And like ConOgre and the others said, welcome aboard!

I really like the look of those Minotaur kit-bashes! Looks like a bit like angry and athletic Ogres. Maybe that's why they're angry, haven't gotten enough food to grow a big belly!

The light blue works really well with the other paints used, so kudos there as well. And the tattoos are great! Keep up the good work!

- Loran

If you want a celtic theme, I suggest removing the gutplates and using them as shields instead. The Celts didn't have much use for body armour, bu they still had shields.

Thank you all for the encouragement and advice. Sorry for taking so long to reply. College sucks sometimes.

Admittedly, as many of you have pointed out, they're not quite as celtic as I originally intended. I'm brand new to painting, building and playing miniatures, so I didn't want to try anything too ambitious. Think of them instead as a tribe of traditional tribe of GW ogres, with a bit of a celtic bent.

Since the last time I posted, I've added a few more bits and bobs to the army; I'll post some pics next time since I'm with the army at the moment. I've got some of the new Imperial Guard Ogryn on delivery as well which will be converted into Maneaters. I'll post size comparisons, etc., since size comparisons when it comes to bit swapping is ALWAYS useful.

As for battle reports, things are going well, even though I'm still getting the hang of the game. Played my first proper game, 2500 points, last week and won magnificently! Go Ogres!

I was playing my buddy, who plays Vampire Counts, and had a disastrous first turn where both my Ironguts and Bulls failed their charges and put themselves in range of a countercharge. He managed to get his skeletons in, along with his Level 4 Vampire sorceress who caused Terror and a whole bunch of other horrible things, but he charged into my Firebelly, so I dropped the Hellheart, got lucky and swept the Vampire Lord up into a dimensional abyss. After that, I lost my squad of Mournfangs to his damn Hexwraiths and his Vargheist did some horrible things to the Ironguts, but my Thundertusk destroyed his Corpse Cart with artillery fire and the the big old block of Bulls held up his Black Knights and some other units, so that my swiftstriding Yhetees could charge into his lonely Necromancer. After that, with his spellcasters gone, he started bleeding units - he lost his Vargheist, his Hexwraiths, most of his skeletal blocks and it was game. A good game.

Anyway, I'll post more pics soon; thank you again for all of your comments.

I too am Welsh born and bred. Harking from the south lands near the city of...well, Cardiff. So welcome fellow Welshman to your wondrous new online home here at the Ogre Stronghold!

I think criticism on the theme here is a little harsh. No, the celts would not have had iron gut plates, but neither were they 12 feet tall or did they breathe fire. It's a hint towards a character rather than a straight-up celtic replica. So some good work in my opinion. Characterful choice of models and some good conversion work/ideas.

The blue warpaint is the selling point here (makes me think of braveheart haha, wrong celts!) I think it's well done and definitely adds something. It will also go a long way to uniting the army once it's all laid out on the battlefield!

Good stuff

Yet again (sigh) I missed this Gnoblog and I am truly sorry that I did. I love the idea of this army and the Boadicea model looks awesome. It makes no sense to me to drop the gutplates, the idea would be to add in some Celtic imagery to an Ogre army, which personally, I think you have done with the tattoo's and war paint, blue tartan esq cloth etc.

This army looks really good to me, so keep it up. I can't wait to see more of them.

G_H

Just thought I would ask how these guys are coming along? Would love to see some more celts!!

Cheers bud