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Hey guys, does anyone recognize this Ork here? I don't know where he came from, and since I will sooner or later play in the GW store in town I wanted to make sure, since I use him as my 'Ardboy nob.
If anyone can give me some photo which proves this, it would be great

Probably , if anyone had doubts just tell them:

" like my conversion? "

If you look at it in person, it's pretty obvious this guy is not just a conversion...

I THINK it is an early Flash Git.

Fifty wrote:I THINK it is an early Flash Git.

My thoughts as well. The early Badrukk was a pirate and that hat is what leads me to agree with you.

Anung Un Rama wrote:If you look at it in person, it's pretty obvious this guy is not just a conversion...

forgive me i was just trying to be funny :<

you can always say you GS it! they cant peel it off and check right muwhwhahja

It is definatly Games Workshop material.

LunaHound wrote:

Anung Un Rama wrote:If you look at it in person, it's pretty obvious this guy is not just a conversion...

forgive me i was just trying to be funny :<

you can always say you GS it! they cant peel it off and check right muwhwhahja

Good point, it looks ugly enough to be a GS sculpture from soneone like me

no I really think that is an EARLY RT mini. My oldest brother had a bunch of RT minis forever ago, and if you google search RT minis Id bet youll find that sucker on there. Back then EVERYTHING looked that bad

I don't think it is....

Look at Stuff of Legends....that'll give you an idea. From memory, it was mainly the Nobz and Character there were one pieces. The rank and file tended to have seperate arms.

Prior to the plastic arms, there were a lot of one piece orks, that were similar to that one. I've got a unit of 30 different old ones sorta like that, that I'm painting up. Using the old tinboyz for my 'eavy shootas'. Most of the ones that are early flash gitz have that skull somewhere on them.

It's not looking familiar. If it's GW, it's from before RT.

I would suspect it's from one of the various 'not-GW' knock-off ranges from the 90's. Or possibly from Grenadier.

wow that took forever, I did find one of some dudes old ass battlewagon. ontop are 2 orks that look very similar to the one you have. Infact if you zoom in you can see the one with the black hat even has the weird armor legs like yours.

Yank off that base and look at the tab.

old ork freebooter me thinks o.o

I don't recognise it ( and I have a lot of old RT ork minis). I think it may not be GW (especially looking at its right arm - seems a bit small even for RT orks)

Is there any chance of taking the base off and checking the tab? or is the tab gone? All the GW minis will have a mark on the tab.

Still nice mini anyway.

Zip Napalm wrote:Yank off that base and look at the tab.

The tab is gone. I cut if off. Here's the thing, I'm not 100% sure what was written on it. It might have been GamesWorkshop, but I can't remember.

I would use it looks like a freebooter from the rt era.

Doesn't look like a GW miniature, and I was pretty familiar with their Ork range back in the late '80s - early '90s. It does share some similarities with the old Harlequin Miniatures 40K knock-offs from that period though.

Looks like an old Ork Nob in Power Armor. Most likely a Freeboota.

Certainly don't recognise it and I've been round a long time.

It is in fact an "Ork Pirate" from the early RT days. IIRC, in second ed, ork pirates were called freebooters. This model's in my collection of RT orks, albeit unpainted.

Gavin Thorne wrote:It is in fact an "Ork Pirate" from the early RT days. IIRC, in second ed, ork pirates were called freebooters. This model's in my collection of RT orks, albeit unpainted.

Yep, it's an Ork Freeboota

http://www.solegends.com/citcat911/c2074orkfreebooterz-h.htm

Nice find, but my model isn't on that page.

Also: Stormboy of Khorne? What the...?

He looks very much like a Rogue Trader era Freebooter (A Flash Git, since back then you could have ork-genestealers working as freebooters).

Mind, I don't recognize him from any of the pictures I've seen, but that is his look.

My honest opinion? The guys working in the store don't know late '80s Ork Freebooter minis any better than you do. He looks very GW, so unless we can confirm that he isn't, I think he's fair game.

odinsgrandson wrote:He looks very much like a Rogue Trader era Freebooter (A Flash Git, since back then you could have ork-genestealers working as freebooters).

Mind, I don't recognize him from any of the pictures I've seen, but that is his look.

My honest opinion? The guys working in the store don't know late '80s Ork Freebooter minis any better than you do. He looks very GW, so unless we can confirm that he isn't, I think he's fair game.

The real way to tell would be to remove him from his base and look at the metal tab connecting his feet. It should have GW or Citadel on it.

ChaosDave wrote:


The real way to tell would be to remove him from his base and look at the metal tab connecting his feet. It should have GW or Citadel on it.

Anung Un Rama wrote:

Zip Napalm wrote:Yank off that base and look at the tab.

The tab is gone. I cut if off. Here's the thing, I'm not 100% sure what was written on it. It might have been GamesWorkshop, but I can't remember.

JD21290 wrote:old ork freebooter me thinks o.o

That is what I think it is. The hat is what makes me think so. This was also about the time when ork stuff became very smiley, right at the beginning of the 'red' era. This was between RT and 2nd edition of 40k essentially. The orks had two giant books for their army list, and the Eldar only had a little list in Issue 127(I think) of White Dwarf!!! Man I'm old.

I am not so sure anymore. If it were GW, I would expect squared off toes on the feet for Orks, and better definition around the teeth.

Doesnt anyone read the prior comments? The fact that Gavin Thorne confirmed what model it is, from what time and that he actually HAS the SAME model in his collection doesnt end the debate?