Review of 2024 -Part 2 - Imperial Ogres

The title is sort of a lie. This is not about the halcyon days when Ogres existed in Empire lists. Instead it covers both the Empire stuff that has crossed my desk this year and the Ogres. Of the two Ogres have been more popular but I believe Empire are getting some GW love very soon so maybe 2025 will be thier year

Ogres

Had quite a few Ogres this year from 2 different clients which is probably more than i would expect as I suspect Ogres are not a first choice yet - still on legacy lists. Also I am not sure what is actually available for them as quite a bit of the stuff I have done has been old Forgeworld or finecast....

As an example of this we start with this Tyrant. I remember painting the old metal tyrant years ago and frankly it was better then the later version.

Newer

Older

Another resin character - Maneater. Decent pose etc but as with all the resin stuff from that period it has a slight surface texture which goes across all surfaces the same and can be seen if you look carefully. At normal playing distance its invisible obviously.

Butcher with his mincer hammer for some steak hache. Probably should have done more blood but to be honest only just realised is a butcher - will ask customer to return for a repaint I think!

Now we are motoring! Ogre cavalry. The panzer division of the Warhammer world and in plastic, old plastic at this point but still really good.

I havent had any of the big boy cavalry this year, or for a few years but a glance back in the archives reveals these bad boys.

Hopefully some of these will wander in during 2025! Also absent this year I noticed was the hunter with sabretooths. I imagine these exist only in cupboard hauls at the moment so unsurprising. However Yetis did cross the desk and I think were a first for me. Theses were also resin but were a cut above the other resins even though a bit flashy in places, perhaps because they were all fur.

By way of contrast I have had 6 Gorgers cross the desk, again resins and a bit scratchy looking and untidy needing quite a bit of cleanup. Quite nice models once done but not to todays standards.

There have also been 40 plus infantry of various types completed this year

Cannon guys.

Standards - these are cool models in fairness. Probs 20 years old but looking good.

This last pic has a plastic munchkin or whatever they are called which leads me to my candidate for worst models of the year. These are not they. These are Hunter gnoblars cast in lumpy sand and then battered around in forgeworlds dumpster. Scratchy, flashy, miscast and awful. Just dreadful.

The question is why when gnoblars such as these are already produced? These are clean and paintable in a way that the gnoblar hunters just arent.

And that concludes this part of my amble through 2024. All other parts are here https://www.firstcommissionpainting.co.uk/blog-old including a prequel covering Bretonnia