WarbossKurgan's Orc Pirates

By whatever name you call the the Green Pirate Lads, they are LOOKIN' GOOD!  

Yay Ogresuns!

Thanks VK & DeafNala!

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More re-based Ogresuns!

Blackspot





Fetch, Kaptain's Steward





Rowlock Dof





Dubloon Dreg





Nastyface





Badhook

The new round bases are a SPLENDID reason for showing off the WONDERFUL Pirates you've created over the years. VERY WELL DONE!  

Thanks Alan! I'm enjoying the "retrospective" too!

More re-based Ogresuns!

Mr Whalebelly







Hoist





Bellows





Scupper Lug





Poxy Uzbad





Throgg (and Wrecks)

The Lads from the Ogresun look WONDERFUL on their new bases, but the bits of boards make me wonder about the health of their ship. GREAT WORK & a SPLENDID trip down Memory Lane!

Hehehe - thanks Alan.

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The Ogresuns are joined by a small bunch of Pirate Grots!

Walker Plank, Dirty Morrgun and Stormy Trug





Oakum Hob, Harpoon Gig and the Dread Pirate RogUrtz





The Ogresuns crew so far - 9 Orruks, 1 Squig and 3 Humans to go!

HOORAY! GOBLINS! The G.W.Goblins are the most delightful pieces that G.W. makes...at least according to us Goblin Guys. The Group Portrait is WONDERFUL. OUTSTANDING WORK as always!  

Great grots!

Thanks Alan & VK!!

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Almost the last batch of re-based Ogresuns. 3 Orruks, 1 Squig and 3 humans to go!



Maroon Grub





Lubber Snag





Boathook Og





Capsie Naz





Blind Fug





Briney Duff

The Old Lads look WONDERFUL on their new bases. OUTSTANDING WORK!  
It really is a joy seeing them again.

Some doodles inspired by John Blanche's Voodoo Forest project. This is a possible Age of Sigmar scenery project for 2017...









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Gvye an Orruk sum food and yt will eat for a daye.
Gyve an Orruk a pyrate shippe and ten yeares later behold the Sea Realm of the Orruk Pyrates.

That is an interesting project...the floating terrain appeals to my love of the bizarre & sense of the absurd. Have FUN with the idea!  

Looking forward to this...

With this mixed-bag of models the re-basing of the Ogresuns is complete:



The Quartermaster









Stanwick Tydes





Mattius Caboteur (Sea Wizard)









Floggin Morr





Sinker Gug





Bilge Badlug





Mr Beak the Squiggot

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COOL STUFF! I think Mr. Beak may be my favorite. GREAT WORK  

The Hogwashas

I got a box of Ironjawz Brutes for Christmas, so I have to make them into pirates right?

So: less armour, more beards and hats. Wooden legs, hook hands, eye patches, pistols and striped trousers ahoy! These ladz are on 40mm bases: they are big! (not Ogor big, but larger than regular Orruks by quite a bit).



Lock





This is the Brute Boss, so he still gets some armour on his back, but all the others will just get one shoulder plate. This means I had to sculpt the back muscles of the other 4 Orruks!

Hook





Stock





Barrel





Sinker

You have achieved the Pirate look with the new Lads SPLENDIDLY once more. The new minis seem to have better posture & less bow to their legs; a definite improvement. Have FUN with them!  

The villages of the Harrowmark are isolated by the vast and malignant forests that envelop them and cover most of the region. The dense, twisted woods are punctuated by rocky hills and outcrops that stand clear of the tangled trees like islands. A few gnarled and wind-swept trees cling to their sides and scrubby bushes and grasses hide in cracks in the stone. Some hills have clusters of houses or watch-towers huddled on the top or steep sides and most of these are accompanied by a wooden landing stage, used by flying ships to tie-up.

The villager's only connection to their neighbours is by the flying ship trade routes overhead. None dare to set foot in the forests, the risks are just too great: the creatures within too terrifying. But the galleons of the merchant fleets plot a wandering course over the treetops, stopping at as many villages as they can to trade, pick-up or drop-off passengers, deliver letters and pass on news.

The ships are propelled by a combination of wind and magic, bound into the very timbers of their hulls. But getting to a particular location takes a great deal of skill and no small amount of luck. Flying ships' captains must know their trade and the overgrown rotting hulks of shipwrecks that litter the forests are a constant reminder of the fate that awaits those who do not!

Another constant hazard the flying ships endure is piracy.

Where there are goods worth stealing there are those who will try to steal them and the pirates of the Harrowmark have taken to the skies to ply their dark trade. Villains of many races come together in uneasy alliances aboard stolen flying galleons. Orruks, grots, humans, ogors, duardin, aelves, and even soulblight vampires on occasion have been seen rubbing shoulders among the pirate crews of The Harrowmark.

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The Voodoo Forest project by John Blanche is clearly the main inspiration for this setting, along with these (older) paintings that feel like they come from the same world. The endless malignant forests, flying pirate ships, floating islands and malevolent beasties seem to be a perfect fit for Dark Age of Sigmar games.

I always treated  the village of Wortbad (the name I gave my "haunted village" scenery set) and The Harrowmark, the region of Shyish containing Wortbad, as separate components from my Pirate Orruks and their adventures in the Mortal Realms. The pirates occasionally fought battles in Wortbad but before now I have never treated them as "locals" of Shyish.

I now feel like they are all elements of a single coherent setting - adding flying ships to my pirate fleet, and rocky hills and floating islands to my scenery collection are both now going to become a priority for me!

Eagerly awaiting these sky ships...

Those are some excellent orcs sir! Some great work with the greenstuff, I especially like all the beards!

This is very good Green stuff work. I'm affascineted

Very characterful warbands (nice use of stripes ).