Ogre Conversion: Heavens Lore Butcher.

Here is the last post in my "Ogre shaman" thread: the Heavens lore butcher.

Thing is I don´t know how this dude came to my mind, I know that the idea of a dude sporting a massive sledgehammer is always appealing to me so I took the idea of my Death lore butcher and used an Ironguts hammer instead of a Mournfang cavalry scythe and this dude was born.

Is still hard to know what to add to a dude whose workshipped god is "Heavens", so I decided to make him the less tematic butcher.

The body is an Ogre standard body, the left arm is the standart one and the right one is the unflexed arm in the ogres box.

The hammer was cut out from the ironguts sprue and glued to the filed standart arm.

The wand is part of a ogre club with a skull that came from the spare head of the thundertusk/stonehorn kit (what a kit!!!).
The wand was added just to give a bit more the feeling of a "Magic Dude".
The last touch is the head, that is the head that come to make a butcher in the TH/SH kit, is the head with the long beard, that gives the feeling that is caught some air hence helping to create the "Heavens lore" feeling.
Oh, and that is a image of the gnoblar that some leadbelchers sport in their shoulders (image I forgot to use in the last leadbelchers post).

Ogre Conversion: Death Lore Butcher.

And there is the other butcher shaman I´ve made so far.

In this case this is a Death lore shaman.

I´ve tried to make him as menacing and quiet as I´ve can, just to give the feeling that he is so used to death that battle don´t even bother him.

His weapon is one of the scariest looking weapon on all the ogre kingdoms armory, kind of a jaw open to bite some unfortunate dude.

He is scratchbuilt from:

Body, right arm, bear trap hand, decorations and head from the ogres sprue.

The left arm is a standart arm from the ogres sprue but the top is changed by a weapon from the mournfang cavalry sprue.

Gut plate comes from the ironguts sprue.

The dog is from the undead box of mantic games.

Just a simple but effective conversion.

As you can see he is heavily cover in tribal paintings, from the left almost white arm to the skull in his face.

And he have a companion too, a long time dead dog.
Here is the little dude (I still have to paint his necklace).
A look of the paintings on his back (and the extra bear trap he carries).

In this case the bits hanging from this dude are here to give him a more deadly and creepy look.
A close detail of the skull I have painted onto his face.

Comments and criticism are welcome.

Ogre Conversion: Beasts Lore Butcher.

Here is another Hero choice on the book: The beasts lore butcher.

Well, he is not a butcher in the literal way, because I´ve preferred converting it to look more like a shaman or a hunter cause I don´t like the butcher thing for other lores than gutmagic.

It was converted from:

Body, left arm and left hand from ogre bulls (now only ogres).

Gut plate, animal skin, right hand and vulture from the hunter that came in the stonehorn.

Head from the mournfang cavalry kit.

Snakes in the base from black tree miniatures snakes blister.

I´ve tried to give this guy kind of a feral luck, with some animals around him like in the beastmaster movie.
There is a thing to love about ogres, the kits come with lots of spare parts, so I´ve converted six minis to fit different roles (this is the first one).

The vulture has 5 layers of grey in the black pens.

I´ve added some bits as an additional club and a horn (just to call some more animals).
This guy is light on the tribal paints thing, cause is full of nice details.
To make the head fit the body I layered about 4 washes of badab black in the head and neck, the fist one to make sure the red isn´t too much brilliant, the others in the base of the neck to make a quiet transition between head/neck and the black body.
I think the snakes need some kind of scales pattern but I´m not sure what one will be.
Here they are, expecting to bite someone that approaches their master.
And here is a detail of the little bits that make the ogres even more cool-looking.

What do you think about this dude?.