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Everyone is gearing up for GorkaMorka at the gaming group so of course I decide to work on my Mordheim war band. Here is my Ogre Bodyguard







I am really pleased with him, especially as he has required minimal green work, almost pure kit bashing...

nathanie1 out

aweeeesommmeeee

That's a piece of kitbashing art.

Stunning.

I love the Door shield and the weird grabber/axe thing.

Looks awesome wish I had someone around here to start mordhiem with really want to do an undead gang

Thanks guys

@ Azekio - Brother you have been building too, get it online!

@ Medium - Cheers fella, you are too kind.

@ Kencotter - Where are you based mate?

I managed to finish him off last night, a few changes, tweaked his shield, changed the arrows, added some strapping for his shoulder guard and a few more trinkets bits and bobs...









Whilst I was waiting for green stuff to harden I starting bashing another bodyguard, anyone who has read the beginning of the blog may recognise the miniature as one of the first that I posted on here, I have started to "un-chaos" him and try and make him more like a pit fighter....

NICE!!!!

Both look great the first guy (use the term loosely ) is a clever combination of bits, the door as a shield has to be the best part though

I could just imagine his human counterpart saying " don't you think you need some kind of shield for cover ? after all you do kind of stand out " then he just rips the door of its hinges and saids "shield"

Where is his sword from by the way ?

I remember this other chap from the early days and you have managed to reconstruct him effectively, the pose is great and he definitely has a pit fighter vibe about him.

@ LDD - Hey mate, the sword is from the Ogre Kingdoms Mournfangs. I am worried that it is a little too Ogre Kingdoms and not Empire enough, it has almost been replaced by a mace repeatedly

im based in carmarthen in west wales little town in the back of nowhere hahah there is a gaming group here but nobody plays necro or mordheim. which sucks cause it was reading blogs like yours ex profundis, PHD and the other guys that got me back into the hobby after a long time i have only played a few games of each in the past and they where great its a shame they have been taken out of GW's line of production

 nathanie1 wrote:
@ LDD - Hey mate, the sword is from the Ogre Kingdoms Mournfangs. I am worried that it is a little too Ogre Kingdoms and not Empire enough, it has almost been replaced by a mace repeatedly

How about cleaning it up a little take of some of the scrap pieces, but keeping the top section as it is, that way it could look more Empire clean lined but still in keeping with the ogre aesthetics

@ LDD - That is a great idea will have a look at it today

Glad I could help

Looking great buddy.
Never thought I'd see an ogre with a feather hat...unless half a turkey was still attached to the feathers . Great work and crisp conversions as always. Mordheim is right around the time my gaming group split up , we all got families and went off to college and stuff so I never got to play it.

@ Theophony - thanks mate, the feathered hat was an afterthought, its from the empire captain kit but is just big enough to squeeze onto he Ogres head without him looking too silly.

I hope you get a chance to play Mordheim one day, its ace

Quick shout out. I don't know if you have all seen this already and I'm last one to the party but this kuckstarter from terragnosis looks really cool!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1143143657/sulphur-incursion-32mm-tabletop-skirmish-game

Thanks you just made me spend more money I dont have LOL have you got any of there already released miniatures ?

No but they look great too. My mate has bought some to check the quality before we pledge

I have got some of the first releases and the quality is great crisp and clean no flash, also the vehicles dry fit snugly no overlaps or adjustments needed I would say its a good investment.

O yes you have to buy Big Momma she is hilarious

I've been doing plenty of modelling but the camera on my phone is screwey. So here is a slightly out of focus image to give you all an idea of what has been going on

hey all,

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Quite a lot done today, I had to build a second Escher flamer for our campaign (two juves with specialist and no more heavies)

I don't really like building models for gaming reasons and would have given this model a different gun if I had complete free choice but I managed to model a weapon slender enough for the miniature



I then found some redemptionist metal bodies in my box and thought I would start doodling around. 7 hours later I had cut up two Forgeworld miniatures....


Is this the necromunda version of a batleth?





Here is the priest, I like the head but he doesn't look grand enough so may have to replace it with something bigger and pointier



As always all comments welcome.

Nathanie1 out

love the redemtionists specially the batleth guy if you want a bigger head may i suggest the empire wizard head with he big hat i think it would suit him well

todays workload, mandatory flamer, a third zealot and the start of a new priest, I have stuck his head slightly too far forward by accident which makes him look a bit old and craggy. I may try moving it back so he is more upright but I quite like it.

Great set of minis you've made here, really like the one made from the FW event mini the chain swords work really with his slim build.

@gianlucafiorentini - cheers, it was hard to cut the model up as it is a beautiful sculpt but I am glad I did



I got close to finishing my Redemptionists for the upcoming outlanders campaign today. It involved a fair amount of head swapping but I think everyone is where they are meant to be now, although I may change my mind again by tomorrow.

First up my Priest



I changed pretty much his whole load out, gave him a more ornate head and a shotgun on his back. I am particularly pleased with the massive sword held in cruciform as it makes him look more Bishop-like and important

I did love his previous head which found a place on my flamer Decon.





I was not happy at all with my previous flamer (pictured somewhere above in the thread) so I kit bashed this guy. He took a long time, lots of parts and it is always difficult trying to get a gun held across the torso of a body that was not sculpted for that purpose as you have to feth around with its shoulders and it can be a nightmare for it to look right. In the end I am really pleased with him and he is probably one of the most complex conversions I have managed to date

However sometimes simple is also cool...



Gun swap, sculpted hand, done.

The body that had been my flamer found a new role as member of the brethren



and I finally overcame the difficulty I was having with some of the other crusaders. Due to already having a bunch of genocidal zealots in the group, I really wanted to arm my crusaders with basic weapons. However, most of the torsos are not designed to hold guns with two hands and when I modelled a basic weapon being held in just one it looked really bizarre and unbalanced. So I played around for a while and found that cutting the barrels down on a few weapons gave a nice aesthetic whilst still clearly representing the weapon they are meant to be. Below are my two other brethren, armed with a shotgun and an autogun





I need to neaten up the hand on the shotgun ganger and crete strapping for the shotgun across my Priests back but aside from that they are pretty much complete, green stuff and all. I wish i felt the same about painting as I do about making....

Nathanie1 out

Latest all look good.

Nice work on the hand sculpting, I know how hard that can be.

Religion and shotguns ha that sounds like a band crazy as it is they look great but my favourite has to be the flamer the combo of parts really work well.

I love the shoulder pad from the IG yes thats what I call them still mixed with cultists arms looks great, add to it the goggles just brilliant

@dr h - cheers, I'm really pleased with them, I have found its all about having the right tools

@LDD - cheers dude, haha they will always be guard as far as I'm concerned too, none of these fancy shmansy new names


The final addition (apart from a crusader who is soaking in detol before being glued) are some novices. It was hard to get excited about these guys as the body poses are pretty awful, but I have managed to cobble together a couple that I find acceptable





And that brings me to 12 models (thirteen once the last one is stripped) More than enough to carry me through a campaign.

Nathanie1 out

GW trying to get more money for new names what next yes the juves kind of sucked with there posing never understood the falling forward poses

I think you have improved them from how they looked

Are you stripping with dettol if its metal models then use Nitro morse works a treat

@LDD - I have used both in my time, detol is slightly less caustic and terrifying. However I had neither in the house so I am trying to strip with detol power spray. It's working but where the solution is very weak it's taking a while. There is nourish though and now it's the weekend I can go and get some anyway

 nathanie1 wrote:
@LDD - I have used both in my time, detol is slightly less caustic and terrifying. However I had neither in the house so I am trying to strip with detol power spray. It's working but where the solution is very weak it's taking a while. There is nourish though and now it's the weekend I can go and get some anyway

Yes it can be a bit harsh I use rubber gloves and an old toothbrush and in the garage with the door open, I have used dettol on some old resin buildings which on whole worked except a couple of tough spots.