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I want to make an Ork army in WW2 Russian theme. Now I'm thinking about useing

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160636637250&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

for the bodies and

http://puppetswar.eu/product.php?id_product=30

for the heads

but then again someone mite be offended. What would you guys think a WW2 Russian Ork army offensives or all in good fun? In that are armys base off of real armys a bad, good or what ever thing.

Very cool, jealous I didn't think of it tbh.

I've seen a few similar (i.e. Soviet-themed) projects before, and they're always in good fun. Plenty of folks have done historically themed armies before, and it only ever seems to be perceived as offensive when the armies are A) human and B) representing WWII German or American Civil War Confederate forces.

Not only do most people not associate Russians with the same racism and genocide as Confederates and WWII Germans (wrongfully so, both on the assumption that the historical representation is always a show of support for slavery, antisemitism, etc. and that Soviet-era Russia had any less of it), but the outlandish, caricature-like character of the Orks lends a certain lightheartedness that distances the project from any potentially associated nastiness.

Case in point: I've seen Ork "tank kommanderz" obviously decked out in the trappings of a WWII German officer, which everyone loved. On the other hand, I've seen WWII German schemes used on unmodified GW/FW sculpts (with obvious inspiration having been drawn from that very source) result in the painter being branded a neo-Nazi (how dare he paint in such a manner that I, the uppity viewer, might mentally transpose a swastika onto his work?).

TLDR: You'll be fine.

Remember, Russians are the good guys of WW2 so no one cares!

Maybe get some looted T34's or KVs for tanks