Guess I might as well make a gnoblog of my attempt at building my ogre army. It's not as well painted or converted as some of the armies on here but then again, I'm not that good of a painter and my converting history has been filled with orky vehicles which doesn't really count since veryone can do those properly...
Anyways, Idea was to get the oriental feeling a bit across without going overboard and it becoming in your face style of conversions etc. Just some simple small tweaks left and right. For most models I simply went for the least patched together look so there was some semblance of order and structure in the army. Our local club already had enough of the stereotypical bashed together tribes. So I just decided to get try and get the feel across by using a coloscheme you see in those tacky chinese take-aways, red and gold.
Anyways, on to the pictures since they say more than my silly ramblings (even though some are a bit unclear, not much of a photographer).
Bigger is better, and anyone who says different is playing the wrong army...
very simple weapon swap but it has made my tyrant infamous in our gaming club as the person (monster/whatever) who positively has the biggest weapon around. I like that...
(off course he's a b**** to rank up and cannot get into b2b contact with anything larger than a flattened gnoblar, but it's a price I willingly paid, practicality is overrated anyways...
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My first actual attempt at converting a big and expensive model. The body is the hunter, arms come from the tyrant kit, as that one got the really big two hander. It was kinda scary hacksawing the original arms and replacing them with these but in the end it looks pretty ok, the putty in the gaps still needs some cleaning up though. The sword in the back was to hide the gap the hunter normally has to hold the spears. It, like most other bits, comes form an orc sprue. Flag and the top ends all originate from the plastic orc boar kit. Not yet finished painting the little bugger but he's kind of my favorite mini in the army at the moment.
Simply removed a bit of the excess spikes etc and painted, nothing special but then again, don't use them that often.
Again, simply stuck to using swords and avoided some of the weirder faces etc and painted them up. The banner is a (yet again) orc banner cut in half and pinned to the ogre top, simple but effective imo.
I didn't really like the original ironguts models, to cobbled together and not enough armor for my taste. That and they had clubs which I really didn't want to use. So I gave them oriental looking halberds (at least I think they look like that...
) and shoulderpads from yet another orc sprue (if you haven't guessed by now, I am a bit of an o&g player). The chainmail is my first ever attempt at using greenstuff. Off course it wasn't untill afterwards that I realised that chainmail is supposed to look like linked chains rather than a single perforated sheet of metal...
Something for the future I guess... tried to give the gold a bit more of a beaten look but my imagination is a bti limited by my painting skills I guess...
Okay, so I only painted this one, a friend of mine put it together in a few minutes just to try and show me a bit about converting. It's representing my butcher at the moment. Idea is to convert me a butcher who looks like those tibetan monks, but I don't trust my skills enough to tackle that project so for now this fella does the job just fine.
And off course more greenskins. I hated painting these boys. I got into ogres to get away from painting o&g and got stuck right in with painting yet more greenskins. I used the giant box and the extra gnoblars on the various spreus to good effect, the box of 24 gnoblars grew to a unit of 45 and 8 trappers. But I guess those won't be needed anymore. Personal favorite here is the flattened gobbo from the giant sprue, I like to imagine how that particular gnoblar has ended up beneath the tyrant's bottom or some similarly unpleasant spot...
I tried to give the unti a more random and non cohesive look by using mostly browns for the clothing and a lot of variation with detail colors (even though the amount of color is limited on these models).
Anyways, that's what I managed to paint and build so far, c&c welcome...
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