A new year, a new plan- I really have a lot of small orky stuff around here -but I never played with them before -maybe because they are in a bad shape -an unpainted mass.
I had a lot of good plans, a lot of conversation ideas, but I need some motivation -maybe YOU people can push me a little forward with the little green ones..
I only need time to go on with them , but it's not easy (at least I didn't finished my BLood Angels & Ulthwé Eldar..), family is the highest priority now. But who knows, maybe this thread will help me to organize my ideas, and we will see how this thing ends!
So, I have plenty of orks -huge amounts of them! truly masses of bases of Grotz, Boys, and Nobs! A good Start -Yeah, I also thought the same at first.. But I need a theme for my orky army -I don't want to make a "usual" ork army -nooo red is fasteeer, etc. Not this time!
So where to start? I have a lot of Imperial stuff -hey, wait, do orks have LOOTED vehicles? HELL YEAH, of course they have some! I see looted imperial tansk everywhere! And which clan has the largest imperial motor pool? -for me, The BLOOD AXE clan is the perfect answer to this question.
So, this is where I'm at now. I started a Blood Axe (an USMK "BA" army - just not Blood Angels this time
) army, based on IG chimera chassis vehicles, and some SM Land Raiders -but the BA's orky camo is also a bit far from me -so I started to realize, that I need some special color scheme for my army. I choosed the brass/copper-dark red- metal colors to be my base colors, and a STEAMPUNK flavor for my ork army.
I have :
-2-3 FW Baneblades/Shadowswords ->a good start for my Gun/Battlefortress units (if I want to play with another list, because BA armies don't have Battlefortresses).
-Some FW IG Manticore, Hydra, Medusa -as the future Lobbawagonz, and Battlewagonz (hydra guns for flakwagonz)
-Huge amounts of old plastic Land Raiders -they will appear as Big Wagonz -the BA Stompas
My personal favourites, I have a lot of ideas for them!
-1/300 Heroic & Ros WW1 German fighters -to become Deth Koptaz -sadly they are too small to be Fighta/Bommaz, so I need some bigger WW1 aircraft -Twin engine bombers to become my F/B force!
1/300 Zeppelin bomber to become my Bommer
A HUGE one, belive me
For a steampunk force, I think they will fit well. They are futuristic things in an ork army! Altought they need some serious orkification!
-Dystopian wars scout airships to be Big Koptaz (I'm sticked wth the eldar skimmer-style of play, sorry), unique BA units.
-DW prussian airship to be my Landa (for a classic ork list, again), or something similar -I just like the way it looks, I want to ORKIFY IT!
-DW Prussian and FSA small robots to become my Nobz and Killa Kanz.
-The new stormboyz look very WW1 german, they will fit my plans
-Need some ork Kommandos (I have a good proxy for them) -I like them as a stand alone formation!
-The poor ork boyz will be OK, but I need some test painting for them.
So. I have this stuff ready -They will be enough for a 2-3000p Ork Army I think -I hope that the time will be also enough for me -orks are very numerous, a lot of infantry, a lot of cheap stuff..