Benjamin's Massive Chariot 🚜 - KORAG THE CONQUEROR - Leader Month (684pts)

Korag the Conqueror!

So I've saved the best til last, with leader month being the final entry. Each month has presented some quite radical and unexpected challenges, from understanding colour a bit better, to converting, to working with larger quantities of figures. This month had a bit of everything - however whilst presenting itself as the modest workload of just one large miniature, literally filled june right into the final moments.

The Leftovers

As per usual, there were some lofty ambitions that weren't achieved. So in what seems to fast becoming part of my routine - I'll start with what didn't happen!

I don't know if Bob reads these posts or not. Is the shrine a bit much?

Maybe they'll show up in a future OWAC, or maybe just in an instagram post, but the shrine to BOLOBYLE with it's accompanying weirdos didn't make it again! Sculpting the big guy was loads of fun though - and his head is attached by magnet so he can be taken into battle on the smaller shrine.

I'll paint you soon. Promise.

Korag's honour guard didn't make it either...

Well what DID happen then? Well this did.

The Conqueror

They'll never see us coming...

So first some context. This whole project was born of two things.

• Collecting the full Bob Olley beastmen range.
• The idea of putting one of those beastmen in an Iron Claw chariot.

The rest sort of spiralled out of control, and has occupied me for the last six months.

The previous chariots from April stayed a bit more true to adapting the design from the Iron Claw chariot, however for this one I wanted to be a bit more Bob-bastic.

So this thing has two key points of inspiration -

The Elven Attack Chariot

Image credit - http://www.solegends.com/citmd/md04elfchariot.htm

I've always loved this thing, not only because it's an awesome model, but because it's packed full of vibrant characters. Even the horses have names. There's something about four guys in a car that seem's very high school, and when there's four horses involved you know they're not messing around.

Francois-Xavier Ngo's Steppenwolf (White Dwarf 242)

I was also really REALLY inspired by the Eternal Champion article from White Dwarf many years ago, where the same character was reinterpreted across many different systems and settings. The chariot below has been seared into my subconscious for several years...

March 2000, the hobby observed it's apex around this exact moment.

The conversion

The cabin and models were converted back in November. So I've been sat on them for quite a while. 

Dis-embarked

The models represent Gorgrod the Bodyguard, Korag now as a king and Rambuzz the mage. They all have tiny magnetic bases that allow them to be used on the chariot or seperately. The model components are a mix, bodies from Ral Partha and Midlam, with heads from Midlam or press moulded from the citadel range. The cool helmets are from the eternally awesome Essex Q-range.

Re-embarked

Like the previous chariots, there was an initally lasercut frame that got sculpted over. As usual the yellow bits are press moulded from Bob Olley sources, and the green bits are me. It was fun finally applying that big face from the Goblin catapult set.

Press moulding saves the day again.

Most of this month was spent figuring out the rest! The yokes have taken quite alot of figuring out. The original plan was to have a lasercut thing that sort of attached them all together in a single frame - but that seemed a bit boring when the Iron Claw chariots had such theatric figureheads on them.

The dragon is kitbashed from left overs from the Bob Olley bits box. It's all from various Ral Partha kits except for the head, which is from that Essex Dragon that became the Dragon Ogre. The yokes are press moulded dragon tails. 

Top tip - dremel the mouth out BEFORE attaching it to the base.

Introducing the chain was fun, as it could make more direct use of the grinning faces on the cabin.

Painting

Gold.

Painting required a magic brush and alot of squinting, and as always took a little longer than expected! Figuring out gold was this months challenge - I might have gone a bit heavy on the green... but we can always fix that later...

This is a very full oval base.

Points...

Much like the previous Chariot month I've used Warhammer 3ed to custom make the chariot! It also carries 3 heroes and some magic items for some full on points bloat.

A very full stat card.

So altogether 684pts! 

And just like that.... it's done! 6 months, 6 entries, 6 unexpected outcomes.

Quite surreal really.

Wrap up post next month - shall I go mullet or sleeveless denim jacket?