#Ogre Miniatures

[oldschoolfrp]

Went to a con, played a bunch of games, and bought a lot of new miniatures this year, mostly historicals including a lot of plastics. But the Sunday flea market is the most anticipated moment of the weekend's shopping. After sorting through my haul some of the highlights include

A 1979 Ral Partha Evil Lord on Litter; I've already sourced his missing throne back.

A bag full of Rogue Trader era Citadel metal vehicles, including 4 complete dreadnoughts from 1987 and an assortment of marine and ork speeders, bikes, trax and buggies.

One metal Sister of Battle from the first 1997 release, ready to purge heretics with fire.

A bunch of 6mm sci-fi battlesuit infantry made for Ogre Miniatures in 1993, to (briefly) hold urban terrain areas against advancing cybertanks.

And a bag of Babylon 5 Wars/ACTA ships, including a shadow omega -- I believe that kit was from the early 2000s by Mongoose, using parts from Agents of Gaming's original 1990s omega and shadow vessel models.

Because no game is "dead" as long as you play it again, and because the recent flood of miniature-agnostic indie games shows no signs of slowing down.

[bryanharryrombough]

Steve Jackson's Ogre was one of the first wargames I played, and still one of my favourites.

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

Belated Anniversary: Mecha Press 12

Apr/May 1994

Here (extremely late) is a look at issue 12 of Mecha Press magazine.

The primary focus of this issue is a second part to Mecha Press’ coverage of the hugely popular Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, adding material that they couldn’t fit into issue 8, with a look at the impact of the OVA, a synopsis of the final two episodes, and additional character and mecha profiles.

Over a quarter of the page count is devoted to mecha gaming (and in fact, two pages of the mecha modeling section are devoted to miniatures for wargames).  The gaming material includes: a teaser article introducing Heavy Gear, Dream Pod 9’s upcoming RPG and wargame; fan rules for adding giant robots to Ogre Miniatures; plus new mecha designs for Mekton, Teenagers From Outer Space and BattleTech.

Another enjoyable issue a variety of material for the giant robot fan, but also a foreshadowing of the future of IANUS Publications/Dream Pod 9.

[misternizz]

A Continental Siege Machine vs. the Pan Europeans

A Continental Siege Machine vs. the Pan Europeans

A game of OGRE miniatures, old school fun from way back in the day, at the Scrum Club last week. Last week we played two miniatures games for Second Saturday Scrum Club. Normally we play a RPG up front in the short slot and a minis game in the long slot. Due to Peter Megginson also having a large collection of OGRE minis, we decided to combine our forces for a large scale OGRE Minis games. I had…

[thewenglishwarlock]

Big lad finished up!

[hypothetical-colors]

Im really happy with how the bone turned out on this one

[rubbishbooty-blog]

It's that time again, time fore me to remember that I have a Tumblr blog I supposed to update, but what with all shit that's happened I'm the last 2 weeks alone I don't think I can be blamed for forgetting surely?

ANYWAY so updates, updates what have I been doing

In September I entered my local Warhammer shop and placed second

The other entries on the day were also amazing, I wish I took names so I could keep an eye on them

A couple of my favourites were

Squig grove

Adeptus mechanicus breach party

And these LotR uruk-hai it don't look like much but these are the old scale one so they're tiny af

Moving onto more recent events I haven't really done much because of work, I did pick up the skaventide box and proceeded to paint some rat Bois yes-yes

These happy guys who just want a big hug are the skaven Rat ogres, great kits fun to paint, small amount of options but I can't complain they're great

Going forward I will attempt to keep this blog updated more frequently and with better content 😅

Til next time keep painting, fuck perfection and remember your not improving or slaying the gray if your not painting, rock on y'all 🤘🤘

[blightlotus777]

smol toughy

[deadlysyndrome]

So far the best miniature I've done. Dragon Ogres are super fun to paint.

[flo-85]

Kosargi Nightguard

[a-random-painter]

Here is an ogre pirate painted for dnd!

[oldschoolfrp]

From the back cover of Dragon 35, March 1980 — upside-down ad for Ogre Miniatures sci-fi microarmor including heavy tank, GEV, and missile tank. Martian Metals of Cedar Park, Texas, often ran ads this way to draw attention.

[bryanharryrombough]

One of the first wargames I played, back in... '84? '85? Still love it.

Still have a bunch of metal Ogre minis in storage, but backing this anyway and will end up with a rather large collection of Ogre minis when my pledge arrives...

[yodawgiheardyoulikemecha]

Belated Anniversary: Mecha Press 13

Jun/Jul 1994

Here (very late) is a look at issue 13 of Mecha Press magazine.

The main focus of this issue is Armored Trooper VOTOMS, one of my favourite mecha anime series.  Primarily looking at the OVA, with background information on the VOTOMS setting, a partial synopsis of the series and profiles of characters and mecha.  But there is also a page dedicated to the Blue Knight novels, only available in Japanese at the time (and to this day, IIRC).

Much of this issues' mecha modeling section is devoted to the second of a two-part article on the 1:35 scale vinyl Mad Cat model from Horizon Hobbies & Toys.  An impressively detailed kit made for the serious model builder.  With the rest of the space devoted to capsule reviews of models from the Victory Gundam series, and article on “The Basics of Mecha Modeling”.

The mecha gaming section has the continuation of the material for the upcoming Heavy Gear, with a teaser on the Silhouette system, which would be the basis for both the Heavy Gear RPG and wargame.  There is also a follow-up to the previous issue’s Ogre Mecha article: Ogre Cyberwalkers, fan-made rules for multi-legged counterparts to Ogre’s cybertanks.  The gaming section actually begins with a review of OHMU War Machine, a sci-fi wargame featuring an “Oversized Heavy Mechanized Unit” on the cover.  A few pages are also devoted to Dream Pod 9’s own Jovian Chronicles, with some fluff about uniforms and stats for a new Exo-armour design.  Fan rules for BattleTech end out the mecha gaming section with rules and stats for a transforming Hover-tank BattleMech! Between the wealth of VOTOMS material and mecha gaming articles, this was (for me at least) a stand-out issue of Mecha Press.

[minisandmonoliths]

Ice to see you...

Mantic Snow Trolls I'm going to use as some Yetis for a thematic Ogor Mawtribe army.

[thewenglishwarlock]

Big lad and his emotional support leg