The bases are made with plaster of Paris poured into a baking tray lines with baking paper and jammed into the over on a low heat just to speed up the drying process.
Then I broke it up a bit and glued the slabs onto the bases with super glue. The plaster flakes and rubs off when you paint it (stuffing your brushes) so I put a few coats of slightly watered down PVA glues on them to harden the surface of the bases and so the undercoat and any putty I apply to the bases will stick.
With the bases I still have to fill in gaps and build up the edges with mili put.
As I will be painting all the ogres on corks and really taking my time with them they have pins in their feet witch are also to be used for pinning them into their bases.
I still have a little way to go with some minor GS work, gaps in shoulders, straps and some minor details and a hand for an iron gun and lead belcher but so far all the major modelling is complete bar the unit banners.
The gnoblars are complete and should have new pics next week, as today I PVA coated their bases, on more gnoblar conversion to go and the unit is complete.
On the way is 2 spawn minis (awesome new ones of course) giant, two butchers and working on my big fatty tyrant mini I got a few weeks ago, maybe as a tyrant with ultra cool pose or convert to be a battle standard.
Trolls to come soon just a little cleaning up/ converting and pinning to bases and they will be ready for a group pick.
So onto the pics
Bull unit one: (operation annoyance) these lads and lady flank, bait and die (in that order) or soak up missile fire etc sometimes bash things with clubs.
(L to R) bellower with old spawn spines from his upper back to keep the birds away, two ogre heads glued together with GS to fill in the gaps and add some detail, GS tongue and a Helf dragons left arm and a armour bit from tyranid sprue to make a bum scratcher, beastman looking bull, horns from chaos warrior, spawn feet and beastman shield gut plate (will have GS fur sculpted on) and lucky last the female ogre now with long golden curls, still shaping out her size 30 figure she will most likely be waring a mini skirt.
Bull unit two: equipped with iron fists, they cruse the battlefield fisting things into certain death and usually last a little bit in combat.
(L to R) Another two headed ogre this one scares of magpies more GS needed for the sides of the head wepon made from the top of an orc mace, next one already talked about at the top of the diary, bellower head from the 40k ork boss attack squig more GS needed to fill gaps and blend the neck, last one right Strong hand 40k carnefex tail bit and chaos ogre head ( I think)
Bull unit three: 2 hand weps (one bloke missing the armoured bull, heaps of pics of him so I didnt take any more) Charge things and try to kill stuff with their wepons.
(L to R) tentacle arm from spawn and torn out throat, shoulder eye from 40k tyranid venom cannon right arm face melter with plastic glue and left hand from rat ogre sprue, crabs man crab hand from tomb kink giant scorpion, last guy normal bull std but with old 40k tyrant body guard right hand.
Iron guts 1, 2 and 3: These were by far the most fun conversion I have ever done. I tried to theme each Iron gut.
Guts 1: typical ogre with a moustache and a big knight smashing wepon, beast killer ogre (hunter when I want to use one) has a great wepon made from a huge tuck from a big something
man/ bear/ pig and beast man shield, wanders the bush killing things. Fred on the end is from Mordheim gargoyle barrel great wepon and has a fin on his back.
Guts 2: blind ogre, kills bretonian peasants like no ones grand mother, has small shields from the Bret knight sprue and a drum from the zombies, Bret shield on right shoulder. Middle guys normal gut STD with Bret men at arms shield as arm guard, and the last one I was going for a Delf executioner look with the face mask and huge scimitar, Delf shield arm guard and a mini thigh plate on left leg.
Guts Three: Empire looking one with empire eagle emblem on his left shoulder as an arm guard and have a mutated left hand (is the gut lord). Muso marauder themed 2nd 40k space Goff ork helmet and marauder shield on shoulder, back of head GS leather neck flappy bits (rivets made from the hole in the end of my pin vice). And toothless Joe standard angry gut with Mordheim sign as back armour.
Lead belchers: normal kit but the right hand was hacked away so I can sculpt a mutated hand with talons
like a chicken. Thunder fist right arm from the rat ogre kit and the lefts from the old metal spawn his back need remodelling a bit. I use him as a man-eater with handguns sometimes :oP and the third LB is normal kit one but Im making his kill cannon more chaos looking and the fat headed gnoblar will have a flag of some such or a knapsack.
So thats all the progress since the last update besides the gnoblars with was only minor modelling but I will get pics up soon.
Here is a pic of lil bits on my fav ogres.
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.Few Ogres were started, none finished. Small slow grow campaign 500pts starting in Feb, +250 pts each month.
