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My issue with the Ogres as Ogyrns atm is that I cant seem to find decent compatible arms and guns to make them suitably 40K, they're the right size but without a decent kitbash plan they wont measure up to what I had been hoping for. The Crypt Horrors are more my style atm but again finding the right guns for them is whats slowing me down.

have you looked at the tail guns on the talos? Maybe you could make them bio-mechanical, although they might not fit your theme...

Having done a brief size comparison I have settled on using an Ork Nobz kit with a tonne of Greenstuff and some nifty gun conversions to create a beefed up (mixture of steroids, combat drugs and nurgle plague) squad of troopers to use as Ogryns. Plenty of bare flesh to paint up and disfigure. I'll be using a selection of Ogre heads I found off of ebay as they're fitting and characterful.

Good plan batman What about Ork loota guns? they have a, uniqueness, to them that might work well with your army's background. Plus they'd fit the Ork Nobs.

I'm thinking of downteching a tone of heavy weapons I have sat around from my Heavy Weapons Team, Sentinels and Leman Russ, using Ork gun handles/bodies as a basis for a grip and then utilising my various spare heavy flamers, lascannons etc with alot of spikes and ammo pouches strapped on.

Theme being a special forces unit that kept surviving and surviving despite horrendous odds, taking excessive amount of combat drugs and steroids to live in a constant state of battle and awareness. This constant abuse of their bodies has left them shattered wrecks of men, scavenging their gear to continue the fight but unable to see beyond the battle anymore. What was once elite is now merely a tool in someone elses plans.

Well i can't wait to see how this turns out

Will you be painting them to look like zombies or will they be more alive looking than your infantry?

They will be largely flesh, likely a little more tanned but I'm working on making pustules, sores and rashlike GS over them to make them look undead but intact. (Think dude that dies of plague but isnt eaten by carrion). The cultists are the most "alive" my army will look at this stage, and these guys are definitely significantly more dead than that.


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Some fluff I'm working on, not sure how much I like it atm.

Pirate Queen Hestas - The Palace of Skulls
Plague Hulks - Soldiers of the Skull Queen.

The earliest records place the Pirate Queen Hestas as a member of Inquisitor Dimitiri Meirs retinue, having been picked up as a thug in a Hive world the inquisitor saved her the death penalty for a string of murders in exchange for her gun in his retinue. Whilst not the ideal acolyte her connections in the underworld across the imperium earnt her fear and respect amongst those she travelled with, and her skill with both gun and blade earnt her coin and power from the inquisitor to whom her allegiance was sworn. Having travelled with the Inquisitor for nearly a decade it was assumed she and the remainder of his retinue perished alongside the late inquisitor as the Fall of the Dark moon temple. Whilst investigating rumoured chaos taint and heretical worship the Inquisitor found himself making landfall amidst an ambush, the planetary populace had sworn their allegiance to the powers of chaos and forewarned of the inquisitors approach laid in wait. In retribution for the death of the Inquisitor the entire planetary populace was put to flame, their mark on the light of the Imperium erased for good.

It would be many a decade before Hestas came to like again, Trading Outpost 623.21a suffered a vicious uprising which saw the Rogue Trader previously managing it ousted in a fortnight of bloodshed. When the violence subsided Hestas remained as the new queen of the outpost, in the decade she had been missing she hadn't aged and yet had built up considerable power amongst pirates and corsairs. The Outpost was converted to a den of greed and corruption, merchants wishing to sell goods on the black market, gamblers, slavers and gladiators called the station home, all the while enjoying the protection granted by their insignificance in the eyes of the imperium, too far from roaming fleets to suffer for their crimes.

When the Chaos legions of The Immortal spread throughout the sector their plague struck rogue outpost first, those with little or no quarantine regulations let in refugees carrying nurgles blessings. Outpost 631.21 (Now known as the Palace of Skulls) fell swiftly, Hestas watching with cold detachment as those loyal to her succumbed to rotting plague, the station itself became a living organism, twisted bodies and screaming death masks fused with the walls themselves. Constantly writing and moaning in agony those strong enough to endure became hulking monstrosities of muscle and pain, the combat drugs already in their systems mutating with the plague, infecting those around them and converting mercenary and gladiator alike into combat slaves. It is not known why Hestas found herself immune to the plague, stranger still how she was unfazed by the plague hitting the station. Some say she was always aware of this... that a plan had been in place for decades, others say her soul was long since lost to chaos, and that the gods willingly took her in as one of their own.

Hestas now marches with her Hulking Guard amongst the Zombie Legions, her cold detachment and leadership skills helping to shape a shambles of rotting diseases and broken souls into an army worthy of fear and respect. As Hestas is a graceful killer her Hulks are an unstoppable force, together they have torn apart all who stood in their way.

OMG I love it all ! keep up the fluff and the work!

Can't wait to see how you model your pirate queen although i'm sure you won't disapoint. Any more backstory in the making?

Cheers guys, the queen model should arrive today so I can get converting, expecting the bitz for my ogryns by the end of the week. Its putting off painting a little bit but I'll get there eventually >_>

OK, quick update on where I'm at. The Pirate Queen is middway through being constructed and has her first stage of GS applies, I still need to file/cut off the excess resin that is to be expected with Finecast but I'm happy with how she's developing.

Current counts-as Lord Commissar, Pistol and Power sword (currently on her hip)




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The Ogryn Bodyguard are very much a WIP at the moment, and I havent taken delivery of the heads I'll be using just yet. I have however figured out their basic builds.

The guns are awaiting cleanup after the glue sets and then I'll GS any gaps and add in power cabelling/straps to hold them together, I'm also working on adding in more plague patches, spikes and horns across the ogryns.

Finally I need to file off the last of the Ork Glyphs, and strap these lads full of armour before the project is completed.

Still the pic pretty much sums up the WIP stage.

What are you planning on using for heads?

Ogre's currently, I have some on their way to me to do a quick size check, will fill the gaps with GS'd rolls of fat for the next and make sure they it scalewise. It'll also give them the slightly dense look I wanted.


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Failing that I should have some Ork burna heads around here that dont show any orkish features which at a stretch will do for me. Purely as a backup incase the Ogre heads are larger than I reckoned.


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A little more work and GS on the Ogryns, cleanup still pending

Basic framework for The Immortal (Primary Cultist) fluff

"The Immortal"

Rank - Primaris Cultist, Envoy to the Undying Father, Destroyer of Worlds.

Other Names: Tubek Raider, Scourge of Harillian, Plague Bearer.

Records cannot place when or where exactly the Immortal was first found, though rumours have now placed him on over 1000 worlds over the course of 100 years lending credence to the idea that it is a ceremonial title rather than just one man. It is known that wherever he travels death follows in his wake, a host to some of Father Nurgles most vile plagues he has been known to lay an entire civilization to waste within a fortnight without ever firing a single shot. For Decades the reports of his appearance had not been compiled, names like the Tubek Raider simply refereed to a crew of plague pirates hitting shipping lanes on the eastern fringe, the Scourge of Harillian was the title given to a Heretic who laid low the Independent Empire of Harillian Scavengers. It is only recently as the inquisition compiles are record on the plague spreading on the eastern fringe that Holo-vids have been examined, the lifeless skull crown he wears a mocking reminder on every single one.

It is thought Inquisitor Meir had been investigating the role of a prominent Plague Cultist prior to his demise, references to the laughing skull, to a plague unlike any other can be found throughout various scattered diaries he left for those who might follow in his wake. Though this itself led to the demise of the late inquisitor, and since his death electronic records of his exploits have inexplicably gone missing.

Inquisitorial Orders have worlds marked by The Immortal to be burned on contact, the plague must be contained. However it is his Charisma and ability to distort even the strongest mind to his will that proves to be the Imperiums greatest threat, containment battleship The Lance of Truth suffered catastrophic damage from internal sabotage when dispatched to attack a station rumoured to be hiding the cultist, its final transmissions show the senior officers detonating explosives strapped to themselves whilst atop the bridge, venting all senior staff into the voids of space and leaving the crew unprepared for the Heretics counter attack.

The Immortals path is seemingly without direction, attacking worlds of little or no strategic importance whilst ignoring some strong points he passes over. He seems to be playing cat and mouse with the inquisition, sending taunting messages in an attempt to lure them into increasingly reckless engagements. Whether his ego will ultimately prove his undoing has yet to be proven, for now the Plague of the Undying spreads unchecked.

Last Recorded Message: ""You killed us Inquisitor, you killed us all. And in our death throes we cried out to the universe for anyone who might grant us our revenge. The universe listened my old friend... the universe listened." Received Inquisitor Dimitri Meir, 48 Hours prior to his death.




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Been working on the skin for my Ogryns, I was worried they'd look too orky but I think after doing the skin I cant see anything but Ogryn when I look at him.




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Another WIP for my Ogryn Bonehead:




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Working on the ogryn a bit more I've decided to document this one as my step by step paintjob, having photos of what I consider to be a stage by stage. As such here is stages 2-5 (1 being priming)

Finally got my heads delivered! A little bit large than I had anticipated but I like the effect (little bit freaky) it gives to the model, and fits with the aesthetic of the model. I'm priming this morning and should have one completed Ogryn Pain Dealer (Bonehead) tonight:

Well that looks suitably freaky

My only critic is that the head on the necklace could maybe do with looking more dead as its abit too similar to the flesh in my opinion.

I can see what you mean, I still need to do final highlights on everything when the head is attached (I find it hard to finish one section of the model until its all ready to finish) at which point I might move the head up a shade lighter to make it more "dead" than the rest of the guy.

Wow, good work on the queen.

The orky ogryns look amazing. Are you going to give them gas masks, or not, seeing as your army doesn't.

keep up the good work

I'm happy enough with the ogre heads not to need masks. That was just a backup incase I needed ork heads

All sorts of super fun conversions in here!

Nice work!

Cheers guys. Well on my way to an entirely converted army

Been a bit delayed so I've only just finishing GSing a neck onto the Bonehead. The Ogre's head wasnt a great fit against the body and whilst the gaps werent visible front on I wasnt satisfied incase people chose to look sideways or from below (it happens I'm sure). Anyway with the last of my GS stock now depleted he has a neck, and as of tomorrow when it's set it'll be painted.

Looking forward to seeing it painted.

One finished Ogryn, Already up in showcase but its nice to finish it here where I started it.

The theme you were going for has come through really well. I like

One thing though, is the hole in his back supposed to be there?

The hole in his back is my optional "do I put a chaos icon there today" hole, I have been going back and forth on it at the moment and since the icon itself came unstuck (over eagerness, unset GS, small pole) it's currently being held seperately to try.

For reference it's present in some of his incompleted photos but disappears like magic at the end >_>

Cheers for the comment.

Oh, i was wondering where that went

Yeah, turns out I''m not too delicate when painting, popped it clear off the model and the icon went floppy before landing on my desk. It's all being fixed now and I'll paint it up when its dry, then I'll decide if he needs it back again.

Cool stuff. Subbed.

Good work.

I would finish Ogryn, but I only have yellow left in my GS packet...