Ogre Butcher on Flying Carpet

  I've decided that I am going to try running my own Ogre version of the Purple Sun/Lore of Death/Flying caster army. But to do this, I'm going to need some sort of flying caster which technically doesn't exist in the Ogre army because our magic users don't have regular mount options.

  We do, however, have the option to spend 50 points of our magic item allowance on the Arabyan Flying Carpet.  Combine this with the cheese of Lore of Death/Greedy Fist sniping enemy wizards, and you got yourself a really interesting idea.

  I decided that even though I don't HAVE to add the carpet to the model, I was going to make one all the same.  Sadly the lens on my camera was all sorts of dirty and only a few of my WIP photos are viewable (and even those are bit sad)

So what I've done is remove my Slaughtermaster from his base, and attached two magnets in the footholes where his feet used to be.  I also drilled into the feet of the Slaughtermaster and attached magnets in his shoes.

I turned the regular "flying base" upside down and shaved off the edges so that it was a bit more square.

Then I attached a square that I cut out of a thick paper plate to it and glued the 2 magnets to the square.  

I cut a square of the fabric I wanted to use as my carpet and soaked it with Elmer's glue.  Once the glue dried it was very stiff and I don't have to worry about it unraveling (I did the same thing previously with my maneater snipers.)  I layed that over the magnets and super glued it down.

And now the final reveal.....

Now I'm free to choose to field him on the carpet, or on foot.  This took me waaaaaaaaaaay longer than I expected to do, but isn't that always the case.  So many failed attempts at this one.  Thankfully, only Arabyan Carpet per army.