Not counting the lumbering Ork Landa, the Fighter Bommers of Ghazghkull’s “Fighta Skwadrunz” are the only true flyers at the Orks disposal. Crude looking, yet deadly efficient Fighter Bommers achieved almost total air dominance over Armageddon skies in a matter of days through both overwhelming numbers and the sheer ferocity of their speed crazed pilots. Each aircraft is almost as individual as the pilot that flies them, the displaying of glyphs, icons or flame patterns on the wings and fuselage highly common. Every opportunity to coerce or bully a nearby Mekaniak into tweaking the engines or weapons that bit more is gleefully taken, as is the opportunity to take to the skies and satiate their desire for speed and noise.

Fighter Bommers

The squadron consists of aircraft from two ranges; Forge Worlds resin Ork Fighter Bommers and Ork Bommers, and a number of ‘Kustom’ conversions made and painted by Dave Stone based on the current Specialist Games Ork range. The three Kustom Fighter Bommers were based on an idea I picked up from the Epic Playtesters Forum last year, which was whether parts from the Epic Thunderbolt could be used to convert the smaller Ork Fighter Bommer. I mentioned this to Dave who then set about creating three fantastically unique conversions based on parts from both the Ork and Imperial range of Flyers as well as other bitz and copious amounts of green-stuff.

Whilst Dave set about painting the Kustom Figher Bommers, I painted up the first of the Forge World flyers which would form the bulk of the squadron. Starting with a mix of scab red and terracotta red I block painted the base colour before adding increasing amounts of blood red to the mix for each successive highlight. The engines and lower fuselage were painted with a 50/50 mix of tin bitz and boltgun metal as was the canopy frame and guns. The leading edges of the wings were then repainted black before adding the Orks characteristic chequered pattern in skull white. For the flames I mixed bronzed flesh with golden yellow and then highlighted them by adding bad moon yellow to the mix. For the flying stands I simply used a length of brass rod that was pinned through a small 40K 25mm base and textured with PVA glue and sand.

Between Dave's characterful conversions and the Forge World style aircraft, the squadron is already starting to shape up nicely. In time I will add the second half of the squadron along with a few extra ancillary units, but that’s for a future update.

Ork Reinforcements

Whilst putting together the Ork Flyers I knew I had a game coming up with a friend and after checking the Ork army I wanted to field realised there were a few gaps in a couple of the Formations. A quick root around one of the Ork boxes produced three more Gun Trukks, a Battlefortress and some Deth Koptas; all which were needed to complete my Big Kult of Speed and Big Blitz Brigade. After painting them up I noticed just how well the old range, new range and Forge World models work together look wise in Ork armies leaving no excuse not to pull out any older models you may have lurking around.

With most of the core Ork Formations now filled out, I will start including a few more of the specialist units such as Stormboyz and Kommandos in future updates before moving onto the Feral Ork Army, which is next on my ever growing list of 'things to do'.

Until next time, happy gaming.

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