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Thursday, March 3, 2011

How to Guide: Ogryn Ripper Guns Tutorial

Hey Folks,

Miniature Wargame Conversions here, but you can just call me MWC. Im here to share a nice easy way to make Ogryn Ripper guns for all the people that have made their Ogryns from Warhammer Fantasy Ogres. Im short on words but big on pictures. But ironically my pictures aren't that great.. Lol..



 To start off you will need a few supplies and tools:



Above is the exact sizes of plastic rod I used.

Step 1 -Score the center of the solid rod with the tip of a sharp xacto blade. This is so the drill will be perfectly straight as this is the gun barrel


Step 2 - Drill out the solid rod. Try and keep it straight as this is the gun barrel. This shouldn't be hard if you made a nice sore with the blade in the step above.






It should now look like this.



Step 3 - Cut the rest of the parts into the sizes below.


Step 4 - Glue them into this pattern below.


Step 5 - Now cut 2 more little parts for the underhand grip and the cocking mechanism and then glue the grip like below.





Step 6 - Use green stuff to round out this gap.


Step 7 - (This is the best picture I have for the ammo and ammo barrel) For the ammo drum simply make a large tube of GS and wait for it to dry. Then slice out sections of it. I then notch them with a round area missing so they will fit flush against the barrel. For the ammo I made a GS mold of some actual ripper gun ammo. 



Step 8 - Cover the body of the built barrel with a thin layer of GS. Mark a spot for the round ejection port and push the cocking mechanism into the GS next to the port.



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Brilliant. The hardest part really is keeping the surfaces smooth, but you've managed that very well. The trick for me with greenstuff is the balance between sticky and wet, for having it stick when you need it to, but be easily smoothed of prints. This post makes it look easy, but it actually isn't especially difficult, and anyone thinking about trying should just go ahead. You learn by doing. Visualise what you want, be patient and let it happen.
5 replies · active 734 weeks ago
Porky... you seem to be enjoying yourself here...
Yep - my kind of post, and even happier that it's 3++. It's the second in the past few weeks.
Glad of it. Feel free to throw in some requests. Monday Day Hobby Day no longer exists, but I/We're always happy to listen... I hear MWC is going to be doing a regular best-of feature too... so stick around.
We aim to please (almost) everyone ^^.
Come on guys.
The secret handshake is supposed to be just that
*tuts and struts around all huffy*

didididdlydee!
Peaople USE Ogryns?
2 replies · active 734 weeks ago
Who cares; the models look amazing.
I like this thinking.
Not a guard player, but I may try to make a few of these because they look very cool. Good article, I hope to see more.

And Gx, people use a lot of units simply because they like them, not every game has to be WAAC. Some of my favorite games have been the 'silly' or 'unfair' ones (like ripping GW's Zulu idea, and just trying to survive for five turns against endlessly repeating Tyranid Hordes.)
2 replies · active 734 weeks ago
Too right. We all know war isn't fair. Is it a wargame or not?
I have suggested to a Wolf player, who kept creaming club mates and he and they both didn't like it, to take Claws instead of Greys :P

If your buddies can't take the pain but you still want to play with them, condescend and de-tune your list your list ^^,
Looks great {^}
Those look really good. Got any good autocannon tuts? I really don't want to have to hunt down eight of them to get a couple of dread arms, if I can avoid it...
Nice post MWC. I wouldn't say this was 'easy', but the results are superb.

Welcome to a life of slavery... :(
Is a nice conversion. And I wasn't talking about competiviness, I was talking about my personal distaste for the looks of the entire IG range.
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willydstyle · 734 weeks ago

These ripper guns and models look awesome, but i would be very hard pressed to claim that scratch-builds are "easy" for the average gamer.
Wouldn't it be easier to use plastic tube rather than drilling out plastic rod?
You have given all of the procedure step by step and tehreofre nay one can easily made it. As when I have started that all seems to be very difficult but later on every thing goes smoothly.
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Magilerski · 709 weeks ago

For less patient, I suggest using Psylancer guns from GK terminators box.

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