Avast Me Hearties

I remember back in the deep dark mists of time when I first became a modeller ( not model unfortunatly but thems the breaks in life) although I was deeply hooked on the Space Marines (blood Angels especially) I noticed the Ork Freebootzers ( if I've spelt that right) as who could fail to notice a bunch of Orks wearing Pirate hats.



As the years have rolled by the Orks have been toned down quite a bit and become less of a comedy force and much more of a real threat. Now I was planning on including a unit of flash gitz in my new army but I was going to go old school on them as it were.



Until the time I reading through the latest issue of White dwarf about the new Dark Eldar and my eyes set upon the new Dark Eldar raider. Although I wasn't interested in collecting a Dark Eldar force I was interesting in possibly getting a model or two to paint.

I especially like the "galley" feel to the raider, with the curved hull and sail. Now it was about this time I had been thinking about possibly heavy support choices and in one of those random moments when your brain suddenly thinks of something, the new image of the new Raider, the looted wagon choice and the thought of Orks in pirate hats all came together.

Hmmm, could it really work?

Oh yes and surprising well as it turned out. With the minimum of alterations the raider hull sits perfectly on top of the chasis from the Ork Trukk. Well it is a looted wagon and sooner or later the Orks would burn out the grav engines, and if the Mek of the army has some spare wheels lying around then why not?

As you can see it's still in it's early stages. I'm going to have to make some decisions about weapons, crew and engines but I know two things. One the sail is staying and two, how cool is it going to look with a Ork with pirate hat standing at the front?

I'll post some more pictures as the work progresses.