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Hi everyone i had a few ideas concerning a possible future ork army of mine, and I was just wondering what you all thought of it.
It's still in the theoretical stage and I am terrible at thinkin up names so any help with that (or any suggestions at all) would be greatly welcomed.

Big Mek [?] is a unwittingly brilliant mek who ever since he was spored(?) has had a longing to fly. Unlike many orks has actually has some sense of self-preservation so he immmediately turned away from the flyboyz kult.

Over the years he had been steadily working on all types of flying contraptions, some to never fly and some to actually work.
He has gathered about him a band of loyal orks who share his longing for flight and now has a small army of flying machines and their ork crew .


His pride and joy is a battlewagon savenged from the remains of a thunderhawk gunship, which now serves as his mobile home/battletank.

Ruleswise this army will not have any rules changed as the tanks are so unreliable that they spend most of their time dragging along the ground anyway, so do not count as skimmers.

Thundahawk: this will be roughly the shape as a SM hawk but will be completely open-topped and scratch-built. The big mek will ride to battle in this long with his personal bodyguards.
Trukks: these will be either scratchbuilt or looted from the remnants of other skimmers (not eldar though because they are too small and complicated for an ork to use )
Warbuggies/trakks: i will probably use quite a few of these and they will range from looted landspeeders to bionically altered dragons to a seat, a gun and an engine.
Stormboyz: these are an obvious choice given the theme.
Warboss: Big Mek [?] has recruited the services of an especially dim but incredibly strong warboss to help protect him and to discourage other warbosses from trying to take his kreations.
Dethkoptas: these are another obvious choice but i don't really like them having helicopter blades (spinning blades+orks: ) so i might either scratchbuild or use some tau drones etc.
Fighta: this would be brilliant to have and tactically useful but forge world is as expensive as ever so more scratchbuilding!

As i said none of this has been made or decided on, but i would love some feedback please!

Big Mek Topgawn, Big Mek Rokkit, Big Mek "3,2,1" Bombar, Big Mek Booma, Big Mek Count Down, Big Mek "Fuelburna" Zapgrit that are my first ideas for a fitting name.