As i mentioned before i've been working on converting my ogre bulls, from the battalion set, into Maneaters!
The finished unit will include 6 and i want them to be as diverse and characterful as possible ... i want them to look like they have traveled and fought in many different lands.
The design for the first one i cannot take credit for.. the original was made by 'Lew_b81' over at warseer... http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?250907-Ogre-Maneaters/page11 .. I've found that although i am capable of doing the conversions i struggle to come up with good ideas to make cool looking miniatures.. so for now I'm stealing them..
I thought Lew_b81's truth-sayer/shaman ogre was awesome, in fact i thought all of his ogres were awesome.. so i'd definitely recommend checking them out!
As you can see it basically involved reshaping his right arm, using greenstuff to sculpt a new shoulder and the muscles in the arm... so that he had his staff (a tomb kings banner with the skull from the ogre bulls standard .. minus the horns.. and a gorgons earings).. resting on his neck. and a big ass rock on his back held on by a greenstuff belt-type-thing.
Getting the rock right was actually alot harder than i was expecting.. and in the end i decided the best way was to not be a perfectionist and to just attack it with a pair of clippers and see what happens.. also it very easy to forget how small these models are ..(even ogres).. and so it took a while to get it looking proportioned.
Rather annoyingly.. i spent a long time sculpting the muscles on his right am only to have them covered later by the straps.. but nevermind.. overall i'm very happy with it and will come up with some ideas of my own.. i've already started a native red Indian ogre which i came up with the concept for, so hopefully i'll get that uploaded soon..
in the meantime, feel free to comment...
if you have any ideas for cool maneaters let me know.. I'm thinking pirate, cowboy, boxer, maybe a skyrim related one... who knows..
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