Ogres Galore!

For over a year now I’ve been playing the excellent One Page Rules Grimdark Future rules and continue to do so, especially now that the 3^rd edition of those rules have been released.  But lately we’ve expanded our games into a bit of fantasy skirmishing using One Page Rules Age of Fantasy Skirmish rules.

So, I’ve been digging around in on the northern face of the Lead Mountain, plucking out a few small collections of as yet unused miniatures and getting them painted ready for use on the tabletop.  We’re on a bit of a hiatus at the moment, what with summer holidays and a few other disruptions, and I’ll be away next week so it looks like it’ll be early October before I can get these chaps into battle.

I found a sizable box of ogres, which I’d already made a start on for Warcry. However, I dug out the infantry and put them together.  This was actually a bit of a struggle as their previous owner had done some weird kitbashing with greenstuff and odd bits glued on here and there.  So, I returned them to the models as intended as best I could and laid down a basic paint job.

For me, ogres live brutal lives and so they should be carrying injuries, bruises, and broken bones, as well as big rusty, blood-stained weapons. 

I do also have a big mammoth model thing, but its really poorly built and is going to need some serious fixing.  I tried to deconstruct it, but as well as being poorly bult it’s also been soaked in plastic glue so bits are seriously melted together.  I will get round to it sometime, I think.  But in the meantime, I also found a dragon ogre, which I’ve built and undercoated.  It may be on the painting schedule soon.

Anyway, here’s the bloodied clan for now.

Its a hard knock life being an ogre foot soldier

He's the boss because he has a tattoo and two weapons for bashing.

I use this one as the magic user, with his totemic skull staff.

Every tribe needs a banner.
They're tricky to keep clean amid all the carnage though.

Every army needs some artillery support.

Always useful to have a pet goblin around...

The dragon ogre needs a bit of paint.

Edit: Last night I finished off the dragon ogre. Not including drying time, this took about 65-70 minutes, so not too bad.

Now then, I've had this model on the table for a few weeks and I'd been thinking about a green colour scheme, along the lines of the troll I'd painted with the goblins.  However, as this is a dragon OGRE, I think it'll see most play alongside the ogres.  A green colour scheme is an entirely different palette, so with a brief bit of thought, I decided to switch to a warmer, red/brown palette to match in with the ogres general theme and tone.

I'm fairly happy with the result.