CONVERTING OGRE BUTCHERS
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Ty Finocchiaro:
To make my Butcher from a standard
Bull Ogre, I needed to first sculpt
up an
apron. I filled the belly out and very
carefully made an apron that conformed
to the Ogre's leg positioning. While
I was messin' with Green Stuff,
I figured
I'd just go ahead and make a stitched
flesh cowl for the Butcher and
added
a few rings on his back. The rest of
the work was merely an exercise
in gluing
as many meaty bits as possible to the
model. I posed the figure so that
it
looks like the Butcher is about to
chomp down on a festering cadaver
for who
knows what kind of magical result.
After painting the Butcher, I
took great pleasure
in adding tons of chunky gore to the
model for a truly disgusting Ogre
Butcher!
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David
Robinson:
To get this standard Bull Ogre up to
Butcher specs I needed a suitable
apron
made out of Green Stuff. I used a flat
rectangle of putty and pressed
it down
in areas to contour with the front
of his body. Thin wire was then
twisted
together to simulate rope at the top
of the apron. Rings made out of
thicker
brass wire and a small bit of Green
Stuff accomplished a pierced look
on
his back. One thing I really wanted
to do was make it look like the
Butcher
had just done ripping an appendage
from a corpse that he was holding.
The
hand grasping the torso was modified
from a bear trap hand from the
plastic
sprue. More thin wires were used to
simulate entrails hanging from
the hunk
of meat. I then took the most gluttonous
head I could find and stuffed a
zombie
arm in it to complete the effect. A
Butcher's job gets messy, so I
made sure
there was plenty of gore on the model
when it came time to paint! |
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Dave
Taylor:
I put together this Butcher to represent
a Slaughtermaster in an enormous Ogre
horde. An ironfist swap on his left
hand, a cleaver carved from a chunk
of plasticard to represent the Bloodcleaver,
and a Green Stuff cowl with skulls
from my bitz box to represent the Skullmantle
and he was pretty much done. As well
as adding gory blood splatters all
over
the model I wanted him to appear a
bit greasy, so I used a watered-down
mix
of Brown Ink and Camo Green for suitably
sloppy marks over his apron. |
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David
Robinson:
The Butcher models are great, but seeing
as it's nearly impossible for me not
to convert a model in some fashion,
I had to add a few details. The first
part was to have some plastic bits
hanging from his belt since a Butcher
can never have too much meat with which
to cast his spells. I added a skull
to
the bottom of the apron by drilling
two holes with a pin vise and then
attaching
brass wire bent in a C shape that matched
the others. The last and most noticeable
change was the head. I used part of
a bear trap from the plastic ogre
sprue
to make an extra chomping bottom jaw
(sometimes teeth just don't cut it).
I then added a lock of hair topped
with a spike to make him stand out
even more.
With the conversions done, I made the
model nice and bloody to emphasise
how much
he enjoys his work. |
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