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I have started a little ork army and Iam wondering about the colour schemes and clans and my 2 favourite ended up between the freebooters (pirate orks) or the blood axes ( human orks) both for me are awesome and I want to know what you guys think and which you like better

From a fellow blood axe:

Unless you really like painting, do not start blood axes. Painting camouflage on 120 ork boyz is a pain, painting camouflage on multiple battlewagons or planes takes days of work, and don't get me started on bikes.

Yarrrrrrr.

What do you mean by Human Orks?

Human orks because blood axes has been close to the imperium of man and adopted camo and retreat which normally orks don't do

What colors would you use on Freebooters?

I vote freebooters!

But I don't know what their color scheme is. Pirates are always good. Get yourself a Badrukk model and play him as any HQ of your choosing.

While blood axes are cool, like stated already DO NOT go with them unless you are just an amazing and fast painter. Save that clan paintjob for kommandos or a specific group of boyz so you can tell what unit is what side by side easier. An entire army with camo? o dear god i would go batty in a heartbeat.

Also, arent freebooters just a pirate-y theme not a color scheme? as in you need more greenstuff skills than painting to make them look right.

True-fact: Painting a green tide with blood axes colours has been known to cause players to snap, paint themselves green, pick up the biggest choppa they can and charge down the Hobby store bellowing WAAAAGH! and murdering a dozen people.

I don't think you need to paint blood axes with all camo but paint them with greens and browns to have a earth tone color scheme so they don't stand out so much. Nobz in a boyz unit should have Kommisar hats and it wouldn't be a blood axe list without Kommandos (they do need proppa camo).

Freebootas need the nobz and boss to be all pirate like (flash gitz are kinda a must for bootas). Except to use lots of green stuff to model pirate bits or risk looking like regular Bad Moons (the typical ork tribe that Freebootas cone from)

Luckily I use Deff Skullz who like a proppa ork stick to fightin and lootin ( perhaps lootin while in the middle of fightin if da boss isn't lookin). No need to look all umie like and instead get the favor of Gork and Mork (sum git talked about sum otha git called Bork but he got zogged fasta than a red painted dakka jet) by paintin ourselves blue.

We'll for freebooters pants colour them ushatabi bone wash them with earth shade then colour red or blue stripes and for the tshirt and armour mix different clans in as they are orks who were kicked out of clans Iam pretty sure

Boyz don't have the best camo they are boyz. They wear brown pants and maybe some purple paint to help hide.

Maybe you should check the Blood-Axes that GW painted up. Most of them have either camo pants, camo helmet or at the very least a camouflage shoulder pad. Of course, the camo is not meant to hide them, so it can be of any color.

However, even when going with minimalistic three-color camo on shoulder pads only, painting 30 boyz will take a lot more time than just making it yellow/red/blue like the other clans do.

Don't get me wrong, colored camo looks totally awesome, it's just very time-consuming to paint due to:
1) Having to wait for the color to completely dry
2) If you suck at painting like me, accidentally drawing on finished camo while doing details means starting over.