Flesh Maw Ogres - Nurgle's Got an Eye on You!

Hello everyone,

You may have seen my post in the Cauldron, I have never done Warhammer before but I am starting an Ogre Kingdoms army as I just love the army of fat ******** *grin*

I haven't put together an army list yet, I figure given the relatively small range of miniatures available, you can't really go wrong with the approach I have taken of getting models I like the look of to include in my army. So far I have the book, the battalion box, and a butcher.

The theme for my ogres is a swamp based tribe, so there will be plenty of muted colours and lots and lots of rust. I am making bases themed around a tutorial I read on www.brushthralls.com (an excellent site for a beginner like me to read a few tutorials and grasp some basics). Here is a picture of my bases, I'm waiting for the milliput (yeah I know, old school but I got twice as much of this for the same price as GW were charging for a weeny stick of green stuff). They're going to have sand applied and then I'll prime and paint them before putting some water effect in.






The as yet unwritten fluff for my chaps is that of a relatively isolated tribe who are devout Maw fanatics. However, a maneater brought more back from his travels than experience and a love of nifty hats - while fighting as a dog of war, he was hired to fight a Nurgle warband. His side won... but he got more than he bargained for from wading hip deep in plaguebearers!

The tribe are slowly being corrupted by Nurgle, but not in an overt 'hey, lookit me, imma chaos god' kind of way. They're loyal to the Maw. When I'm a bit more practiced at using epoxy I'll do some conversions using the nice convenient hole in the gut that the models have before you put a gutplate on

Eventually I will be using yhetees (but with extra sculpted on fur painted a slimy brown/green) as 'swamp things', gorgers as well - the only thing I'm not going to use from the battalion box are leadbelchers, as I don't like the idea of guns on my chaps. When I've gotten more experienced I will sculpt giant slings for them instead and make some 'shot gnoblars' instead of the torch ones. They'll play exactly the same, it just feels more 'fluffy' to leave the firearms out of it!

My hunter won't be using those godawful sabercats (sorry, I really don't like them!), possibly use spiders or crocodiles instead. I also saw a picture on this site of a hunter with a harpoon made from plasticard (your name escapes me right now I'm afraid) so I may ninja that idea as it fits nicely with my theme.

As for special characters, I doubt that Greasus would ever find reason to visit a stinking mire, but Skag may well drop in from time to time to rub shoulders with some Maw devotees *grin*

Well, there's my wall of text, input would be nice, I'll get cracking on assembling my 'guts and get them undercoated!

JB

"Flesh Maw"???

Are you sure this is Nurgle and not Slaanesh?

Yup, eventually I'll be doing something like this chappy:



The idea behind the name is that their flesh will eventually be eating itself, I'll sculpt on lots of little mouths and my tyrant will have a maw crafted into his flesh like the guy in the pic.

Meanwhile, I've been looking for a guide on how to use Water Effect stuff. Would you guys recommend tinting the water effect with ink and then applying it, or painting the bottom of the hole I want to put it in and then applying plain WE on top?

Thanks for your help!

JB

That's a damn awsome conversion, but looks damn difficult to pull off well!

Thanks

 - Kyte

You'll be having the girls screaming if you walk around with a awesome conversion like that, and as kyte said, it does look a little difficult bit to pull off. Never mind, can't wait for pics!
Thanks, Malekith

Hehe that's definitely a 'some day' project, I won't be attempting anything that extreme for some time. Right, off to the shop to pick up a couple of colours I forgot yesterday (dur). While I'm gone, can someone have a think on the Water Effects question? Thanks!!

JB

I have never used GW water effects before, but I have some cheap stuff I bought in holland. It works well on it's own, but the best swampy results are achieved by mixing it with catachan green, I think. It worked well for my lakes. They looked almost exactly like the ones featured in WD 300.

Thanks

 - Kyte

Brilliant, thanks for the tip. I've got catachan green so I'll experiment with mixes. What kind of proportions did you use?

JB

Brilliant, thanks for the tip. I've got catachan green so I'll experiment with mixes. What kind of proportions did you use?

JB

about 5 brushes for a lake. Orkhide shade and brown/green ink might be handy as well. By the way, for grass, the lng static grass is vewy expensive. Bristles from old brushes are much cheaper and easier to get hold of. You know these big brushes you use for painting walls. almost everyone's got some of those somewhere.

If you look in my gnoblog (http://www.ogrestronghold.com/forum/index.php?topic=2490.0), there are pics of chaos ogres with belly-maws. Those are tzeentch though, but another paint job might make them nurgly.

Thanks

 - Kyte

Thanks for the heads up

For the grass for my bases, I picked up some field grass made by the guys who do scenery stuff for model railways, it was £2.99 for a big packet, which I thought was quite good value. Although the tendency for me was to assume I had to get GW stuff, breaking that mindset certainly saves a few pennies!!

My Ironguts and Butcher are undercoated now, will do some base sorting/painting tonight or tomorrow.

JB

jimbob if your guys are anything like that guy above, you should be damn proud.
pez

Hehe Pez, I've never painted anything before so fingers crossed for me! That model with the belly maw, apparently it's done by a Golden Demon winner and he knocked it out in ONE DAY .....

JB

ONE DAY are you serious!!!!  Did he win the Slayer Sword?
pez

No sadly, it was his only entry out of 7 that didn't get a prize. You can read his comments at http://www.coolminiornot.com/173729

Sorry for the non update of gnoblog with progress, I am currently dying of flu (first time today I've managed to be upright more than 10 mins without feeling dizzy/sick. Pics as and when I can hold a brush without shaking!

JB

Indeed - that played a not insignificant part in my choice of scheme hehe

JB