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So, I'm going to be converting some obliterators to expand my Mono Khorne army, and thought it would be cool to do it with ogryns, but WFB ogres come with more models for the same amount of money, so I've come to the basic conclusion that I'll stick spikes, khorne icons and 40k weapons onto ogre bodies. Sounds simple enough, but I'm a neurotic pedant and I've been thinking about buying the stuff for this a month or two now, and have come up with plenty of things to worry myself with.

My bits game is weak atm. does GW sell good weapon sprues that I could pillage for this?

I was also thinking about the codex fluff says the first obliterators were pre heresy tech marines, and I would love it if this conversion became some kind of hybrid between "Muscley Chaos Brute," and "Former Tech marine." would it be all that difficult to roll some green stuff into sheets and layer out armor plates onto their legs and loin cloths like the loyalist techmarines?

I'm sure I'm forgetting about some other third thing I'll be distracted by.

Doing this conversion rest solely on your ability to model. If you have right tools doing such armor plates wouldn't be difficult. I've thought about doing a similar conversion on Fantasy Ogres. I think it would be easier if you shaved the legs down a little - get rid a little of their bulk so that when you add bulk the legs don't look too clunky.

As for weapons, Oblits get to fire Heavy Plasma, Heavy Melta, Lascannon, and twin linked versions of the smaller versions.Bits from SM Dev Squad, Land Speeder for Hvy Melta, SM tanks for lascannon, various SM kits for the smaller versions.

Enough to get you started, anyway.


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Found these in a search (not mine). Lots of examples out there.

The best part of converting a Chaos army is that mutation gives you the perfect fluff excuse for a nonstandard model. So long as the result is around the right size and believably represents the weapons and armour, no one's going to complain - as Stormbringer's example pic demonstrates.

Specifically for WFB ogres, you need something to represent the armour - could be random bits of bolted/welded/chained-on looted armour, leftover chaos marine/termy armour, or even some sort of forcefield. And as the above pic shows, some sort of power claw/glove hand and some sort of freaky heavy weapon hand (doesn't have to literally be the Heavy Plasma, Lascannon etc, it could be one mutating heavy weapon that can fire with multiple characteristics). Don't limit yourself to marine/chaos weapons - ork weapons would also be a great source.

GW sells sonic weapon sprues for noise marines. Of course, my army is mono-khorne and noise weapons are slaaneshi, so I run the risk of having something look out of place in my army's theme, but I think they could pull off the "magical Combi-weapon" look quite nicely, if I did something to make them less squarish and more round and obtuse, Would converting those be horribly difficult, or is that not worth it? I do still have heavy weapons and such from the dv terminators... they are just kind of on older obliterator conversions I'm not fond of anymore.

No reason you need to stick with just 2 arms either.

RAWRAIrobblerobble wrote:
No reason you need to stick with just 2 arms either.

Good point - an ogre with a cluster of human-sized arms, each holding a weapon, might be easier to model too - just needs something to cover the joins between all the arms.