Commission - Praetorian Ogryn Squad (Part 4)

Another evening spent working away on the Ogryns, the second two are nearing completion now, the third is still furthest away, the epualette on the left is'nt quite as I'd like it, but I can't quite place how to improve it, however the jacket is coming along nicely I think. I've been using a piece of paper cut to the shape of the jacket too allow me to get the right shape for it with the folds, the right hand side is more or less finished with the left still being worked on.




The forth Ogryn meanwhile is very nearly done, hands are all that definately need to be done, I'm pondering over the Pith Helmet as I've found he looks quite cool without one, I'm also keeping in mind that the Ogryn Bonehead will have a similar uniform - but probably only one should have a helmet to keep the models suitable different. What do you think? Helmet or not?



Finally a package arrived yesterday with the remaining two boxes of Ogres I needed to get on with the rest of the squad, I've quickly got to work on these six. They're in very varying states at the moment, but all are making progress, I'll keep working on all of them for the time being, but the Bonehead is going to be the focus on the work - alongside the existing two which are almost finished. The aim is too get half the squad ready for the customer within the next couple of weeks, with the other five to follow in early September - lets see how that works out!



Oh and I almost forgot! Courtasy of Longinus on Boot Camp - it gave me a chuckle...!


"You've spilt mah bloody tea, Im gonna CRUSH you!!!"

D Company Sergeants (Part 3)

I've taken a few hours out of my work on the Ogryns to spend a little time on finishing the converting of the six new sergeants I started for my own army, they'll now join the painting line - with the GT countdown now on this is getting steadyilly more pressing - at the moment top of the pile is finishing the Leman Russ Hull I've been working on, the Sergeants, plus a few other Praetorians figures will be next on the list.

Sergeant number one ended up being posed similarly to one of the basic sergeant models, it was probably the one which gave me the most trouble as I just could'nt get the wrist right, it's still not bang on and is a little chubby, but I'm happy enough with it, hopefully once it's got some paint on it it'll not be so noticeable amongst the squad.



Sergeants numbers two and three both just needed grips for the their chainswords, these also proved fustrating to model, I probably should have added them to the scabbard before adding it the the model in retrospect, they also look far too large, but they are the same size as the grips on the actual chainswords of the other models - heroic scale does fustrate me at times like that.



Sergeant four was the easiest to finish as it just needed buttons adding, a nice simple greenstuff job.



So with these four added too the two I had already finished my two finished Platoons now have their Sergeants modelled to bring them in line with the new codex (...how late...?), now for painting, ho hum.