Mycetic Spore

[tanagra]

Found a Mega Bloks Halo Flood Drop Pod on sale at WalMart for $7.

The only thought that went through my head was, "I gotta try this."

1 hour later:




I am priming this thing tomorrow morning.

[alino]

I like the model. What I plan to do for Spores is take the top of a two liter, cut a weird whole into the top, have some of the two liter sinking into the spore, and then taking a hot glue gun, making it look like it has those veil like things, and then filling the bottom of the inside with the glue to make the base of it a bit meaty. and i plan to use a Cd as a base for it.

Anyways, I like the idea of the Spore Pod! Very nice

[tanagra]

Thanks. I'm probably gonna be trolling around the local walmarts now, looking for more cheap pods. There's 2 within 15 minutes of me and one more 45 minutes away.

[FTGTEvan]

Nice find. That is pretty perfect.

[dwez]

Ideal for the Doom, maybe a little small for 3 Warriors or a Carnifex. Perhaps try and bulk out the base. I use the oval MC base, make a crater, and add some Milliput Chitin Plates to my 'egg' in this case Plasma Hatchers:



And this one was a Mintolla Ball from Pot Pourri:

[tanagra]

May want to fix that double post.

Anyway, my mind canon for mycetic spores is that 'comfort space' is not taken into the equation. My fleet specifically fills it's spores with partially developed nids that mature on the ride down to the planet. The pod expands before impact to soften the blow on the contents and then deflates and cracks open. The reason it sends partially developed nids is so that the size of the pod is reduced, making it harder to detect on radar and harder to hit by anti-air flak. With that in mind, I could totally see a carnifex or a group of warriors popping out of that pod.

[Deleted]

Looks decent but I think it's too small as well. Fluff aside, it can't provide you with much cover. Unless you DS close to some board cover whatever pops out is gonna get shot up. That'd be my only concern. I'd get 2-3 of them and make a cluster for each Pod but that wouldn't be super cheap.

[tanagra]

What i'm actually thinking now is that with the smaller size, it could fit into a tighter space, thus making it easier to get it where you want it.

[dwez]

Aug 23, 2013 13:45:37 GMT tanagra said:

May want to fix that double post.

Anyway, my mind canon for mycetic spores is that 'comfort space' is not taken into the equation. My fleet specifically fills it's spores with partially developed nids that mature on the ride down to the planet. The pod expands before impact to soften the blow on the contents and then deflates and cracks open. The reason it sends partially developed nids is so that the size of the pod is reduced, making it harder to detect on radar and harder to hit by anti-air flak. With that in mind, I could totally see a carnifex or a group of warriors popping out of that pod.

Cheers, double post deleted don't know why that happened or why I didn't spot it.

As to your mind canon - seems a perfectly valid choice and makes sense to the Hive. There's no modelling for advantage either way - a bigger model means more cover to gain on the opposite side of your opponent but as you say that advantage is negated by meaning there#s more chance it can be moved off the board in a mishap. However, it is classed as a monstrous creature so it'll either be a 60mm or oval base. We'll probably find out which in a couple of months and all this will be moot .

[tanagra]

I've got the pod primed, but the ripper tentacles still feel moist. The solid sections of the pod are dried proper but the tentacles still feel a bit damp. Is it perhaps because of the different plastic used to make them? They are flexible, since I was able to make them fit along the contours of the pod.

[gman25639]

I made mine out of an extra tervigon spawn belly and a couple carnifex carapaces, with STC and HVC tendon arms for the tentacles. Turned out nice.

[Deathnid]

that looks so cool, and its weird that there is a halo dude in there and i just posted about halo in that other snow thread. lel, coincidences are stupid. like this one time i was thinking about Motorcycles and how we shorten bicycle to bike, and that we should say motorbycles, and then a motorbike drove (rode?) right past.