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A sneak peek of the resin Rat Ogre from Warhammer Community:

Rat Ogre coming from Forge World this month:


https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/03/06/thats-a-big-rat/

Exactly 30 seconds...

It looks unfinished.

Joyboozer wrote:
It looks unfinished.

Lets hope so lol....

Not entirely sure about this one. Is this a special player or are we not getting a Rat Ogre in plastic?

This guy and Varag in particular look like sculptural sketches rather than professional sculpts. No problem continuing with my Isle of Blood Rat Ogre conversion after seeing this.

Exactly who is it at forgeworld that hates fur?

Hmm. Could use a better look at it. That back foot is looking awkward, though.

Wow, the Rat Ogre is...vastly underwhelming. Shame.

I have about 12 Blood Bowl/Fantasy Football rat ogres.

I think I'll pass on this one.

That is a terrible picture.

The Rat Ogre might be fine. It might be awful. I have absolutely no idea because that picture is terrible.

The angle, the gigantic gaps and the incredibly rough finish.

I love that GW are releasing early pics of models, I remember back when White Dwarf used to have sneak peaks of models still in greenstuff that were several months off.... but they should at least put some effort in to taking a decent picture.


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 Breotan wrote:
Is this a special player or are we not getting a Rat Ogre in plastic?

Yeah I'd love to know that as well.

I never complained any about the previous models, but this looks underwhelming as stated by Elbows.

Still gonna get it though.

Man....Foregeworld is supposed to make the good stuff. But with the exception of the goblin ref...NONE of their stuff has looked remotely appealing to me.

3rd party stuff is making FW look bad.

Well originally they didn't plan for BB to sell this well and most TEAMS and big guys were going to be resin. They saw the sales and bumped a few teams to plastic, but I guess some items were too far along in resin to change.

I picked up my BB ogre Saturday and painted him today, great model

I think it was Ogre and Troll in plastic... not sure if the rat Ogre was ever mentioned.

Oh man, I saw that picture on Facebook, thought it was a 3rd party thing or proxie option, and kept scrolling. That's the actual Forge World model? Eeeeeeeeehhhhhh... Yeah, at least from the angle they've shown I have no interest in that. I'll stick with the Isle of Blood one I'm in the process of converting.

 rayphoton wrote:
Man....Foregeworld is supposed to make the good stuff. But with the exception of the goblin ref...NONE of their stuff has looked remotely appealing to me.

3rd party stuff is making FW look bad.

You got that right, ray. Like I said, I have about a dozen rat ogres, and many of them are 3rd party.

I can't think of one of those 3rd party rats that arn't better then this.

The plastic Rat Ogres from Spire of Dawn/Island of Blood would look 100x better as a Blood Bowl player and insanely cheaper. Especially the one with both fists to the ground.

For anyone wondering the size difference between Morg and the new standard Human Ogre



I was a bit surprised had a feeling he was going to be much bigger as the plastic model, but Morg looks a lot more meaty, as it probably should be. Also big fan of the style differences, the Human Ogre looks like he should be with them, where Morg looks much more chaotic.. hopefully that is something they will continue down the road.. and if the Ogre team eventually turns up they will be another style again.

Not sure on the Rat Ogre, only thing going for him is he certainly matches the new Skaven figs.. but will need to see him up close. Will be getting two regardless as my other half wants one for her team.



edit - Aye I've used that one myself previously Aegis, looks great on the pitch with team colours.

 Theophony wrote:
Well originally they didn't plan for BB to sell this well and most TEAMS and big guys were going to be resin. They saw the sales and bumped a few teams to plastic, but I guess some items were too far along in resin to change.

I picked up my BB ogre Saturday and painted him today, great model

Not strictly true.

The lead-in times for plastic production are fairly hefty. If GW really wanted, they can shorten them, but not by much. The only other thing they can really do is shorten a release schedule. I can almost guarantee you that everything that is coming out in plastic between the release of BB (Nov wasn't it?) until next November was planned out far before the initial release of the main game. What they may have done is shorten the release schedule due to the popularity, but nothing that is currently known or slated to be coming out in plastic will have been "bumped" to plastic. It will have been intended as such all along.

I think the more likely scenario is that, due to how popular BB has proven to be, some of the plastic releases are being rushed out ahead of time (or not, these could actually all be the original release dates) and there's pressure being placed on FW to hurry up some of the originally planned resin releases.

Or maybe all of the release dates we're seeing were exactly as intended.

All that said, once GW have some tidy sales figures to review at the next few meetings, I wouldn't be surprised to see some new plastics being "fast-tracked". That said, the quickest you'll be seeing them, due to what I've pointed out above, is toward Christmas and not a moment sooner.

There seems to be a pretty massive gulf in quality between the plastics and the resin minis at the moment which is a shame. A better sculpt would have found its way into a lot of aos armies too.

Yeah, I think I'll stick with my converted one.

 Platuan4th wrote:
Yeah, I think I'll stick with my converted one.

Wow, that thing is totally badass. The Rat Ogre's meagre stat line doesn't do it justice!

Just posting in hopes Forge World reads this and takes note... that rat ogre looks bad in that bad photo and someone should feel bad for posting it.

Chikout wrote:There seems to be a pretty massive gulf in quality between the plastics and the resin minis at the moment which is a shame. A better sculpt would have found its way into a lot of aos armies too.

I think it might have something to do with Seb Perbett making waves in the main studio, plastic designs and all that, and *certain other sculptors* being shuffled off to FW.

In general, anyway, if not BB stuff in particular.

Platuan4th wrote:Yeah, I think I'll stick with my converted one.

Funky.

Say... how easy would it be to convert BB skaven to new-look gutter-runners? As in: how easy would it be to peel off half of that armour?

The BB Gutter Runners don't really have any armor. I actually want to go thru and Add armor to them so they can get better matching colors and style to the rest of the team.

It's so... smooth.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
It's so... smooth.

Clan Moulder induces frenzy on the rat ogres with pre-game waxings.

@Vermis The only easy way to convert gutter runners from the linerats would be to add capes. It won't be super convincing but it would be pretty clear that all your guys with capes on the pitch are gutter runners.
Throwers would probably be the better conversion targets as they are really lightly armored as well, there are probably a lot of those floating around as I don't see many skaven teams taking more than one thrower if that.
Would be easy to switch the tails out and then you're back to adding a cape/hood.

If this is going to be a trend, I'm scared for the resin teams.

That is definitely a weird sculpt, i'm betting its done by the same person who did Varag. You can usually tell a sculptors style just by looking at it. It may look better from other angles. But compared to the art style of the regular Skaven it seems strange.