If you're looking for a centrepiece that's going to turn heads on the table, these Rat Ogres from Duncan Shadow are a brilliant place to start. Before we even get into the lore or the game use, let's talk about what these are like as a painting project — because that's genuinely where the excitement begins with a sculpt like this.
The detail on these is crisp right out of the printer. You've got deep muscle definition across the torsos, torn and stitched clothing with real texture, chunky armour plates with visible rivets, and those heavy cleaver-style blades that catch light really nicely once you get a contrast or drybrush pass on them. The faces are where we'd spend extra time — there's a lot of character there, snarling muzzles and sunken eyes that reward careful layering. Scale-wise these are chunky lads, sitting noticeably taller than a standard 32mm human mini, so they read immediately as something dangerous on the tabletop.
There's a long tradition in fantasy folklore of giant rat-men lurking beneath cities — creatures that are just human enough to be unsettling, just monstrous enough to be threatening. These sculpts lean into that perfectly. They feel like something that's been living underground a long time and has grown very large and very angry about it.
We stock these as part of our monster miniatures range, and they sit alongside some genuinely brilliant big creatures if you're building out a dungeon encounter roster. The pack gives you three distinct poses — one mid-swing with that curved blade raised, one more upright and muscular with arms tensed, and one crouched low in an aggressive forward stance. Each one reads differently on the table, which is exactly what you want when you're running multiple of the same creature type.
If you want to build out a full ratkin warband around these, the Rat Folk Mutate Rat by Goons is worth a look — smaller and weirder in design, but it pairs well thematically if you're going for a mixed horde with clear size hierarchy.
Duncan Shadow consistently produces sculpts that are both imaginative and genuinely practical for hobbyists — the kind of designs that look like they'd be a nightmare to print cleanly but actually come out really well on a decent resin printer. If you haven't explored their range yet, there's a lot to like across their full collection on the site.
These are available now at Otts Workshop, printed to order here in the UK. If you're after a big, characterful monster that's going to be a genuine highlight of your next session — and a fun weekend project on the hobby desk — the Rat Ogres are well worth adding to the cart.