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So, about 6 years ago, when ogres first came out, I decided to properly collect an army. After maybe, two or three years of collecting, I managed to produce a 3k point army, full of conversions (not particularly good ones), and painted to a pretty rubbish standard, with lots of drybrushing. Near the end of last year, I converted up an ogre or two, just for funsies, and I realised that I was actually a pretty decent painter. So, given that the new fantasy edition came out not so long ago, and made ogres pretty effective, I decided to repaint and rebase everything. Rebasing was achieved by using a scalpel and cutting the sand off the base. Also, I learnt that making the pva/white paint/snow slurry is the only effective way of making snow properly. Anyhoos, here they all are:

This was the first unit of bulls I built 6 years ago, and the last that I painted, because of how hard it was to find the right bit of bark to base the champion on. I found that the best ways to make one's ogres visually interesting are to a) use a bunch of different methods to paint the metal scaps b) have a few different colours for the pants c)paint the lips and teeth. Also, chardon granite + bleached bone makes the best skin mix.



I run two units of 6 bulls, both of them on the inner parts of the flanks. They are a bit more manoeuvrable, and because you need all the bonuses you can get in combat, what with never being able to get rank bonuses, they are good at getting the a flank charge and protecting my main two units from being flanked. This is one of my favourite units, what with all the conversions.




And, some shots of the back row.



So, my main force consists of two units of 8, one of them being just a unit of bulls. I converted these guys to be a bit more elite, what with all the armor and stuff from leftover ironguts bits. Unfortunately, the light was a bit iffy, so the photo isn't amazing. I'll probably have to wait until this afternoon before I can get something a bit better. I'm a bit miffed that you can't take heavy armor on bulls. It would be a bit of a waste, but I'd probably take it just for fluff. You also might have noticed by now that all the squad leaders have purple pants. I tried making a hierarchy of pants, but in the end, it ended up as all hierarchies do: 'These guys are at the top, and you guys aren't'



And a shot of the back row.



And then, there are my ironguts. This unit can be absolutely devastating. -3 to armor, 22 attacks. Also with a tyrant which is t5, w5, ws6 and can either have 5 s7 attacks causing d3 wounds, or 5 s8 attacks which use the opponents initiative as their weapon skill, and when they have an initiative of 0, then I automatically hit and cause d6 wounds each. Which means that any steam tanks, or screaming bells, or warmachines, or what have you are pretty much guaranteed to die in the first round of combat. Zombies too. I made the banner by cutting one up, drilling lots of holes in it, then pinning it back together and threading string through all the holes. Once I learn a bit more about painting freehand, I'm going to put a bunch of empire, orc and other iconography on it, so that it looks like their banners have actually been looted.



Also, guarding the flanks are my leadbelchers. These guys are absolutely fantastic. Artillery dice worth of shots each at s4, armor piercing, no penalties for multiple shots, long range or for moving. You'll often only get one or two shots a game, but they are brilliant at detering the enemy. Very good at killing monstrous creatures as well. Generally, people tend to avoid flanking me when these guys are about. I quite like the gnoblar stuffed in the cannon.




Then, there is the humble scaplauncher. This is quite possibly the most infuriating model ever. When I first assembled it, I didn't pin it, so it fell apart pretty much all the time. Seriously, if you are going to buy this, invest in a pin vice and a packet of paper clips. It's as solid as a rock now. Funnily enough, depite being a pile of wood and rusted metal, I actually had a lot of fun painting this. Although, if it weren't for foundations and washes, I probably would have lost my mind. I also discovered a great way to paint gnoblars. Snot green with a green wash. It's different enough from orcs and goblins, but it's still green enough to add a bit of colour to one's models. Also, I went a reposed the rhinox's head. I don't know why all the animal models seem to be so interested in the ground. I've also found that purple is a really effective wash when painting red.





Also, the two butchers. These guys are pretty important to all my plans. I equip one with a bangstick (guess which one), and one with a skullmantle. Seriously, you can get entire armies to panic if you use them right. They may not have any super spells, but everything that they do have is really, really useful. Hellhearts are really fun in big games as well. Also, you can't tell from the photo, but the one on the right has much darker skin than the other. I'm much happier with him. He's probably my favourite model in the army. He just came together so well.



Gorgers are very useful as well. Anything that can come up behind enemy lines and eat all their warmachines is pretty good in my book. The original model wasn't all that good, so I chopped him up extensively to repose him. I think he looks a bit more dangerous and aggressive now. I also realised that gorgers are probably one of the most dangerous creatures in the fantasy world. Not only are they super fast and able to navigate all manner of sheer cliffs, tight tunnels and pretty much anything, they are also lightning fast, are much taller than an ogre, who are about 10 foot tall, and have razor sharp claws and teeth. They are also pretty intelligent.



Then, I have a hunter. I don't tend to use him much, which is a shame, because a mobile bolt thrower with fast cavalry can be pretty effective, especially when you give him an item that allows him to ignore all terrain when moving. I'm not super happy with how the sabertusks turned out, so I might have to revisit them.



And finally, my maneater. This guy is pretty effective. The sword grants him +1 to initiative and weaponskill, which allows him to guard the flanks from fast cavalry. I mainly built him for funsies, but he's been seeing a bit of action on the playing field.



I also have about 50 odd gnoblars, as well as an empire greatcannon armed by gnoblars (which I used use with the dogs of war rules, but apparently they don't have those any more), but they aren't (re)painted yet. I basically just gave up before on them, because of how annoying they were to paint, but now, thanks to washes and foundations, I might actually finish them.

And finally, a sneak peak at something that I'm working on. Dark Elves ain't got nothing on this. (btw, if anyone has any ogre leadbelcher arms that are holding the empire greatcannon, I'd be willing to swap stuff for them, or buy them off you. Thanks a bunch)



Overall, I'm pretty happy with how this all turned out. It's one of the first armies that I've completed to a satisfactory standard, and now, I might be able to enter some tournaments and whatnot. Thanks for reading, comments and criticisms welcome. And I might try and get some better pictures up soon, once I figure out a) how to use an SLR and b) where I can upload a bunch of photos without loosing a lot of quality. At the moment, I use photobucket, but it really doesn't cut it. Edit: The Dakka gallery is quite good actually. Better when one can zoom in, but for threads, it seems to be fine.

I can see you put a lot of work in this project.
You can be proud.

I agree with the above it's nice to see people revisit their past work and do a bit of tidying up instead of just chucking em and starting over.

On a similar note i've bought armies that have been mostly painted on ebay with the intent of just tidying them up abit, I think people just don't give theirselves enough credit and lose heart with it all. I have an entire imperial guard army that only needed the faces and bases doing, cost me £10 because someone was gunna chuck em, he did'nt think they were worth a penny.