Kaptin Hortwork's Freebootaz - a slow Hortwerth's Orks project log

[Hortwerth]

Arr there matey!

This log will most likely be extremely slow as this will be my personal army - I will do it only when I find a bit of time between commissions. I'm extremely eager to build a lot of Orky stuff, I just don't have time to do it!

The army will be Freebooter-themed visually with bitz of piratey stuff thrown here and there.

Anyways, some of you may remember my Barry ( a scale-reference ork):





I needed to find a quicker way of painting all these boyz, and I did.

Here's my first unit in their scratch Trukk:






Anyways, I threatened I'll start the Orks after Ad Mech and hereby I stuck to my word!

Comments, opinions, suggestions and questions welcome! As is gaming help and unit composition help!

[Hortwerth]

Here's more pics:

[Green_RangerAK-47]

well it will be a shame that i'll have to wait for more. it's a great army and i hope you stick to it. orks are fun to paint because their so coustomizable and can be fun to play with the right equipment. keep it up and great job.

[Niibl]

Now that are nice orks.
Do you sculpt the hats for each boy separately or do you have a special method to minimize the effort?

[Hortwerth]

I sculpt each boy's hat individually! Using a special method to minimise the effort

[The Laughing God]

They look very good!

I rally like the striped pants,and the hats. Looks very pirates, cowboy style.

[Jester Boy]

Very nice! Themed orks are damn cool.

[Dio´Ra]

orks with hats....seeing the first was great....but a whole mob of those hats...
so whose the dastardly kaptain, who gave those orks an uniform....he must be a real panzee

[Hortwerth]

I can explain this - I have a kunnin' plan:

The boyz are said to band together with like-minded ones, forming lootas, burnas, bikers, or even whole klans - speed freeks are such a variation of evil sunz actually.

On the other hand, I want an army with very distinctive unit marking scheme for once!

I want to combine the two and the crazyness of everything Pirate or Ork related and over-emphasize it.

Therefore, this unit's mob is mad about his hat ( as Jack Sparrow) and all the boyz who banded with him share this obsession.

I need help naming the nob, by the way!

I have several other fixations already planned for other mobs: One with all the boyz with wooned legs, one with all the boyz blindfolded, all the boyz with hooks for one hand, all the boyz with a knife in their teeth, etc.

On top of this, every mob will have different colour (and pattern?) shirts.

And I have already planned the konvershun of the Kaptin. He was so known for wanting to be in every scrap and crying out he can't be in two places at the same time that his dok actually found a cure...


Oh, and here's the mob bailin' out of their trukk (I suppose it'll be a rare sight in a real life for them to actually get off an intact trukk)




P.S.

I really need help naiming my Kaptin too! I'd like the name to somehow relate to me, sound very orkish and be possible to read bacwards!

[Dio´Ra]

do the names have to be orky ....if not then how about the sparrows for the hat huggin obsessed orks

being more serious how about using true sea man slangs for your orks and making it more orky....now im not a man of the sea...but i bet there is somewhere a pirate dictionary on the interwebs.....

another krazy tought...those obsessed orks of yours dont plan to put track/wheels under a big boat and call it a baneblade do they

[alphachicken]

Perfect, the size of the trukk, the bases, painting, Pirate hats..heh

And...I have a soft point for orange, lovely colour, great glyphs(spellcheck) aswell.

Please keep this project log up, It looks like its going to be great =)

[iFelix]

Excellent, they're ggrreat.

[violenceha]

The skull on his banner pole hasn't got a hat!

[Dasqueek-Master Assassin]

This log is amazing! I love those hats. Keep it up and consider me subscribed.

[bluebugs]

These orks look completely amazing! Love the hats as well.

[Metal Fingered Villain]

wow these orks are looking super dope. I'm considering an ork army when the new models come out and this is major inspiraton. Always impressed with the work you do.

[Ghod]

Yep very nice I must say, cant beat a bit of pirate themed ork madness.

They'll go well with your bloodbowl grots too.

[Khrangar]

The driver's missing a hat too. The orcs are amazing. Orcs+Tricorns = teh roxxorz! Sorry, I had to.

Khrangar

[Hortwerth]

The driver's missing a hat too. The orcs are amazing. Orcs+Tricorns = teh roxxorz! Sorry, I had to.

Khrangar

Ekhym! OrKKKKs!

I don't want to use any of the OrKKKKs's helmets on any mob so I thought I'll use them on all of the drivers!

Yep very nice I must say, cant beat a bit of pirate themed ork madness.

They'll go well with your bloodbowl grots too.

That was the plan!

[Dasqueek-Master Assassin]

Oh wow! those big gus would make fantastic kans if you were up to it

How did you make them?