15mm Empire: We have an ogre - and we will use him!

I always thought I suck at sculpting... Maybe I have improved my skills or it's again 15mm scale that is way more forgiving mistakes. I desperately wanted an ogre for my Empire warband. After some research it became clear that there is none on the market and a conversion would be necessary. I realized that I picked up six of the excellent ogre miniatures from Alternative Armies. I sacrificed a Demonworld chap for the feather and looked through my 28mm bitz finding an old shield fitting size-wise. The rest had to be done with green stuff. I am more than pleased with the final result and will certainly do another one in the near future. An ogre rarely comes alone and I have to other poses left to convert.

Looks Guard enough to me

I always regarded Ground Zero Games' NSL line as good Imperial Guard proxies, looking a little bit like Mordian Iron soldiers. The only thing missing so far was proper character models and vehicles. So I ordered some Winter Command figures from Vanguard Miniatures' Novan Regulars and a few GZG head-swaps later I was ready to go. The Ogryns are "Space Ogres" from CP models by the way.

Being proxies they are not perfect, for sure. But they look "guard" enough to me and I can field Chimeras, Ogryns, Kasrkin, Guardsmen, Weapon teams and powerfist-wielding Sergeants and Commissars. Last additions will be Leman Russ and Sentinels.

Power-Fist to the people!

I managed to do my first conversions in 15mm adding power fists, Plasma Pistols and Plasmaguns to NSL Jaegers and Panzergrenadiers from GZG. Some greenstuff and random bitz from Epic Ork Nobz and Warhammer 40k weaponry for the backpacks. I'm quite happy with the results and look forward to use those guys in Clash on the Fringe skirmishes. The coverted result is shown next to the original sculpt from GZG for comparison.