OMG! It's the orky life for me!

Helloooo Orktober!
When you're excited about something you just have to blog about it. Well, I'm excited about what I got this Orktober. Massive trade of AoS minis for Oldhammer minis. With this treasure trove I can now create 17 out of the 20 types of Freebooterz units.

Now I just need 3 runtbot bomb launchers.

Freebooterz Ork army part 9

Here is another nob for my Death Skulls retinue unit. Only 3 more to go.

Here is a little group shot of the retinue so far.

Freebooterz Ork army part 8

Another entry in the list. Here is my Weirdboy Warphead. He is originally from the Bad Moons clan and has managed to escape his minderz to go on adventures in 'eadbangin'. He has managed to find some Madboy drinking buddies to pal around with. Eventually I'll find 3 more Madboys to go with the one I have so I can finish this unit. I'll also potentially be using this model as a Possessed Warphead until I find that legendary sculpt.

Freebooterz Ork army part 7

I finished another nob for my outcast Death Skulls retinue. I had already painted this nob last year, but I went back and reworked the blue on the armor and added weathering and finished his base.

Freebooters units in the works.

I thought I would give everyone a quick list of the units I am currently working on in one form or another for my Freebooterz army. Not in any particular order. Many of these units will have clan colors, such as Death Skulls and Bad Moons, with the jolly ork mixed into their banners and backplates.

1. Flash Gitz
I currently have a Kaptain and a Freebooter boy, but I am keeping an eye out for 4 more ork pirates to finish off the minimum unit size. I decided to make my "pirate orks" flash gitz instead of freebooter pirates because flash gitz can be customized while freebooter pirates have to be equipped with matching equipment.

2. Death Skulls Outcast Retinue
I've started painting this one as well, so far I have all the models for this unit I just need to finish painting them. This unit will consist of a Death Skull warlord, 5 Death Skull Nobz in power armor and a Death Skull Weirdboy with minderz.

3. Weirdboy Warphead/Possessed Warphead
I just got the weirdboy for this entry, but I still need 3 more madboyz to go with him. They will be from the Bad Moon clan originally.

4. Chaos Renegade Ork Warband
I have finished the most models for this unit and I have enough to models to finish the unit.

5. Ork-genestealer Brood
I should be getting the models for this unit in about a week. I plan to use the patriarch from my genestealer cult for this unit's patriarch. No clan color scheme on these.

6. Outcast Oddboyz
I have all the models for this unit as well. I haven't decided what clan these were outcast from and I may not give them a clan color scheme at all.

7. Ork Mutant Mob
This entry gives the option for either a unit of 5 mutant boyz OR a chaos spawn originally made from an ork. I will probably go with the spawn option to save myself some trouble and extra models.

8. Renegade Runtmaster
I really like the description of this unit and I have a Runtmaster for it, but I only have one grot from rogue trader, but I do have a box of plastic swarms that includes snotlings.

9. Bad Docs
I have plenty of painboyz to use for this unit and I look forward to finding orks to use as squig-brained orks.

11. Dread Mob
I have the mek and painboy for this unit, but no dreadnoughts yet.

12. Wild Ork Outlaws
I don't have any models for this unit and I'm not sure if I want to paint this unit or if I just want a painted unit of these guys. Comes down to whether or not it will be fun to paint.

13. Renegade Speed Freaks
I would love to have a unit of these. I love the Spead Freak Cult and their color scheme. The only problem is I don't have a Rogue Trader battlewagon and they are hard to find whole and are crazy expensive from what I've seen.

Freebooterz ork army part 6

I've been seeing a lot of Khornate renegades on the internet lately and not being one to miss the bandwagon I thought I'd throw my orky spin on it and finish up another member of my Chaos renegade ork warband. This member is Boss Gorgof, leader of the warband's stormboyz.

Freebooterz ork army part 5

Warlord Gutzdreg is a bit slow. Ok, he's a lot slow. Even among orks Gutzdreg is not known for being too bright. Warlord Gutzdreg was once a powerful Goff warlord of the Blackbulls, a local head family. He ruled the local Goffs with his violent temper and strong arm, but eventually the Goffs in the settlement were overthrown by a family of Bad Moons who managed to undermind the Goffs' authority with sneaky cunning and bribes of teef. Rather than live under the rule of the Bad Moons Gutzdreg left with a group of his skarboyz to find a good scrap. Around the time the last of his skarboyz fell in battle Gutzdreg met Badgor. Badgor was the only ork Gutzdreg had ever met who was meaner and stronger than he was and he readily joined his warband and their worship of the god of war and slaughter.

Warlord Gutzdreg

Equipment: Power armour, powerfist, bionik bolt pistol hand.

Chaos Attributes: Fast, Moronic

Chaos Reward: Strength.

Freebooterz ork army part 4

I have decided to go with the Freebooterz army instead of the Death Skulls. I am creating several Freebooterz units right now. So far I am working on a Death Skulls outcast retinue, Freebooter pirates and a Khornate chaos renegade ork warband. I will be doing several more units as time goes on. I will be using the Deathskull nob and weirdboy I painted as part of my Death Skull outcast retinue and the Freebooter pirate will be a part of the pirate unit I am working on. Lately I have been converting and painting the chaos renegade ork warband. It is up to 7 out of the 10 members, I just need to get my hands of 3 more madboyz.

First, to present the champion of the warband, Badgor Gargrim.

Chaos Rewards: Eye of God (Sword of Might, Collar of Khorne and Flesh Hound), 2x Regeneration (one given to Warlord Gutzdreg), Chaos Armor (gained from Mark of Khorne), Daemon Weapon (bloodletter).

Chaos Attributes: Fear of Blood, Iron hard skin, Weapon Master.

Badgor Gargrim was once a Goff and an elite member of the Stormboyz corp until an unfortunate encounter with daemonic possession. Badgor was possessed by a bloodletter during a battle against Khornate renegades on a planet near the Eye of Terror. After that Badgor was a little "off". He left the corp and wandered from settlement to settlement till he stumble upon a group of madboyz. The madboyz recognized one of their own instantly and they became fast friends and drinking buddies. Badgor traveled with the roving madboyz, often leading them in battle. The bloodletter in his 'ead continued to scream his desire for blood into Badgor's mind and eventually he began dedicating his kills to Khorne and started a fine collection of skulls. Badgor Gargrim has gained many rewards in the service of Khorne and is a powerful fighter, though once the blood begins to flow he has a habit of blanking out while the bloodletter in him dreams of freedom in the lands of Khorne.

Death Skulls army part 3...maybe.

So, after reading more about Freebooters I might end up changing my "Death Skulls Army" to a Freebooter army. There are a lot more units to a Freebooter army than I realized and most of them are just the normal ork models like mekboyz and warboss retinues, so I can still include Death Skulls. But no Freebooter army would be complete without actual Freebooter models. Unfortunately I am very lacking in the Freebooter models department. I do have one though and here he is all painted up. I decided to make him a Flash Git with gold gilt armor and weapons.

                                     Next up will probably be a Khorne worshiping Stormboy.

Death Skulls Army part 2

The next addition to my Death Skulls. This is my favorite Weirdboy in the range. I feel lucky to own him. He was really fun to paint and I think he turned out well. He is one of the only Weirdboy sculpts that doesn't have a grounding staff so I had to make one.

Death Skulls Army part 1

It turns out that the one thing I have in abundance when it comes to oldhammer miniatures is space orks. I have a ton of 2nd ed. space orks so I put together a 2000pt. list of Death Skulls since they are my favorite tribe and because I have about 40 heavy weapon orks. Unfortunately I really wanted to include a Mad Mob, but I only have one Madboy. Here is the first nob I've painted for the army so far. I'm having to strip all the ork models so it is taking some time. I also have a Weirdboy that I painted up earlier that I will include in the army, but I haven't done his base yet. I don't know if its just my mood today or if I've just been looking at it too long, but I don't like the pictures I keep taking of this ork. I decided to go with a very realistic, weathered look to the army. I'm not really a big fan of electric blue Death Skulls, except maybe their tattoos, so I decided to go with a sun bleached blue. Unfortunately this model only has a little flesh showing so I wasn't really able to add any tattoos or colorful skin tones so I just went with a normal green. I decided to go a different direction with the glowing eye and made it yellow light instead of red.

Gorkamorka Buildings update

Progress continues on the Gorkamorka buildings. I've added glyphs and writing to the walls, as well as a little graffiti. Next I'll be adding extra scrap to the outside to cobble it up a little and make it look more orky.

I've also been working on a second building. Progress on these is going very quickly.

Gorkamorka Building 1

So, I'm helping my brother with a project. He is rewriting the rules for Gorkamorka. He is using a combination of Games Workshop rules and Malifaux rules. I am painting the buildings for him. Its good practice for using my airbrush. I'm using a combination of airbrush and weathering pigments. Here are the early results. I will also be trying to create graffiti using my airbrush, but my early attempts have caused me to have to redo some of the walls. I'll give it another try once I practice on some paper. I also plan on adding orky "improvements" to it.