Nothing says Ork quite like a red painted vehicle with lots of wroooom. And no Ork army would be complete without a Kult of Speed in my opinion.
Over the years the models for this unit (both in Warhammer 40.000 and Epic 40.000) have gone through multiple variations. I prefer the look of the Warhammer 40.000 2nd ed. time when things were bright and colourful.
Thus I went for bright red, yellow and green as the main colours of the units. The black is just painted black in a satin black coat, no highlights or anything. The warbikes were a bit of a pain to paint. They don’t have clear delineations and hence I don’t think the models are not that great. Figuring out what is what can be a challenge.
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| The Kult of Speed led by Mekboy Gakka I am mightily pleased with the end result. The only minor quibble is that I actually ended up painting 8 bike stands, as the NetEpic Gold army card for the KoS said 8… which then turned out to be wrong. I guess I just need another 2 bike stands and then I have a support.
To spice things up a bit I added some banners to the buggies. I used common pin needles, that I cut to size with a heavy pair of pliers. The banners themselves were made from standard paper and then added by first painting them with PVA glue, and then folding them while still wet. The details were then painted on. Make sure to let them dry between colours, as the paper really soaks the paint and can cause bleeding of the colours.
The details of how to paint the various units should be visible from the illustrations below. I used Vallejo Blood Red mixed with red ink for the base coat, highlithed with P3 Khador Red Highlight. GW Averland Sunset for the yellow, highlighted with P3 Sulfur Yellow, Coat D’Arms Goblin Green for the bases and skin, Armypainter Gun Metal for the metal parts, highlighted with Vallejo Chainmail Silver, the black was painted with Foundry Equipment Black Base, the gloves of the bikers were painted Coat D’Arm Barbarian Leather and highlighter with P3 Rucksack Tan.
  Detail shots of the various KoS units. Mekboy Gakka had his ride converted with an extra large engine of some sort. I don’t really intend on using him as a Mekboy for this army, but I guess it will be possible to include him as such in the future.
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That is another 400 pts knocked off the army.
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| Overview of the army as of May 14th |
Let us have a look at the list then:
| # | figures | pts | total | figures total | ||
| Spleenrippas | 1 | 3 | 100 | 100 | 3 | |
| Gobsmaha squadron | 1 | 5 | 100 | 100 | 5 | |
| Bonecruncha squadron | 1 | 3 | 150 | 150 | 3 | |
| Shokk Attack Team | 1 | 4 | 100 | 100 | 4 | |
| Pulsa Rokkit Battery | 1 | 3 | 250 | 250 | 3 | |
| Schorchers | 1 | 3 | 50 | 50 | 3 | |
| Stompas Mob | 1 | 3 | 250 | 250 | 3 | |
| Great Gargant | 1 | 1 | 400 | 735 | 1 | |
| mekboy gargant | 1 | 1 | 450 | 450 | 1 | |
| warboss | 1 | 8 | 250 | 250 | 8 | |
| Mad Mob | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Totals | 3985 | 95 | ||||
| Great Gargant | ||||||
| gusterbuster | 100 | mork head | 50 | battle cannon turret | 25 | |
| magnum megacannon | 85 | soopa liftadroppa | 75 | |||
| Mekboy: | ||||||
| krusher arm | 0 | buzzsaw arm | 0 | deluxe kustom cannon | 0 |
Still 35 models to go… it’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll!
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This makes me wish I still had all my old White Dwarfs, looking lovely so far.
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Oh Yeah! Looks awesome and FAST!
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