Spring Cleaning with Janus1004 – Ogres for Age of Magic

As mentioned I would like to use round bases for the army. I am currently using 2mm thick bases with holes for magnets on more or less all my new figures. That way they are compatible with my movement trays and transportation systems. The magnets I use are 3mm diameter, 2mm thick rare earth magnets, which works very well in my opinion. The first thing I do is to design the base in TinkerCAD, which is easy to use and has a high accuracy, which is important for this work. In this case I do not plan to use movement trays, but when you do you want to be certain that the magnets in the tray matches the magnets in the bases exactly, and that you get ion TinkerCAD (which is also free to use, another great thing!! :-))

Then I export the base as an .stl and import it into my printer software. I mostly use PrusaControl, as I normally do not need more advanced tools. If I do I swap to Slic3r, which also works well. Both these programs can be used with someone having a basic understanding of computer software and are quite intuitive.

Finally I printed the bases on my Prusa i3 MK3 using 0.2mm thickness. I use Prusament PLA-filament and I have few problems, and for a very easy print as this is naturally worked without issues.

So after the adequate result with the Gnoblar it was time to dip a test Ogre in, about one hour and a thorough later brush later it looked like the middle picture. I then removed some mold lines (hate mold lines, they got to go!!!) and spots where the parts had not been clipped particularly well from the sprues, overall rather good (pic furthest to the right). I am a bit worried that I still have to much old primer on, but I guess I will have to reprime and see how it looks.

Also, I always use PVA for my bases… so I thought that likely the earlier owner used that as well? Indeed, I put the bases into water (remember that PVA drying in 100% reversible) and the basing started to come loose. This will make it easier to remove the Ogres from the bases before putting them into the bath!

The Ogres came with a small horde of Gnoblars, which I do not care much for. Therefore one of them had to be the volunteer for testing out my cleaning recepie which was a simple as hopefully efficient. After some searching on the internet I gathered that dropping the plastic mini into essentially denaturated ethanol followed by scrubbing. As can be seen it was a vast improvement in just about one hour, so I will try this approach on an Ogre next!

The Behemoth, again a classic model which looks great, problem is that currently all is hidden behind the thick paint… or so I hope.

These two I quite like, I will use them together on one base to serve as the army’s war machine. Again cleaning and rebasing will be needed to get started.

The bulk of the force are these ten Ogres. I would like to stripp paint from them as well, so I have to think how to do that on plastic. They will also go on round bases instead.

The bonus figure…. the earlier showed ones make the eight points in Saga I need. This one however I will add, I have a plan for him…. 🙂

Hi all!

When I saw the Spring Cleaning content this morning I found it quite ironic. This is as I yesterday bought a second hand force of Ogres that I intended to use in Saga – Age of Magic. However, I realised I would like to have them painted hopefully quite a bit better than their current state. First I thought I could just touch them up a bit, but I think they are just to bad a starting point. Lets meet the suspects…

The Warlord of the force… why why have someone put a big lump of greenstuff on his weapon? What is hiding beneath?? This needs removal of the greenstuff and rebasing to a round base.