I’m already nervous that this is going to stray into weird / potentially offensive territory. If it does, I apologise, I’m not malicious; I’m ignorant and stupid (which isn’t better than malicious it’s just harder to fix).
I went through a process to decide what colour the beasts in my BCR army would be (you can find that here, spoiler alert they’ll be polar bear coloured).
Now I want to do the same thing to define what colour my orges will be. Yeah, I know. I told you this could go one of two ways. Now, to be fair, it was a friend of mine who played ogres in 8th ed that put me onto this. In the 8th ed fluff the Ogres are a mountain dwelling, nomadic race that look like this:
Pretty cool huh. I think so too. Only mountain dwelling, nomadic people don’t actually look like that. Especially from the polar regions. They kind of look more like this:
Firstly, I’m in love. Secondly, this lady is from Greenland. The thing I’m trying to point out is that gorgeous skin tone. I also think her clothes are fucking cool – more on that later actually. Her skin tone isn’t at all like the GW ip. Here are some more examples (from Nepal this time):
Credit (left to right): https://www.andbeyond.com/tailormade-tours/nepalese-mountain-tour-jungle-safari/ and https://www.pinterest.com/subenjabegu/people-in-nepal/
So I’m going to go out on a limb here and use this darker skin tone for my ogres. I think it will pop nicely against the white of the beasts. It will also, I’ve just realised, give me a a nice contrast with the clothes.
Looking at the GW ip again you can see that all ogres wear boring trousers. Actually, the trouser areas on the ogres are quite big and they’re also quite segmented (there’s a seam running right over the lap cutting the pants in two basically). I think these are a great opportunity for freehand. Those of you who have suffered through my AT aesthetic which is here (whatever happened to them eh? Actually, I’ll be back on those as soon as this tournament is over) will know I have a thing for acrobats. And travelling circuses. And cool clothes. So I was thinking of doing some kind of mad stripes and patterns on the ogres clothes. Something like this:
Credit (L to R) https://www.halloweencostumes.com/
But I’m not so sure now. The clothes that the lady from Greenland and the people from Nepal are wearing is also very cool. I think I’ll amalgamate the two and use the basic patterns from the clown clothes but use the super cool colours from the reference material.
As always, if you have any comments, let me know. The next stage will be picking 3 freehand designs (with some variation) for the banners.
As always, any comments – hit me up
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