Scratchbuild Drop Pod--- wip

[serif]

So for the 400 point club I'm converting a librarian and scratchbuilding a drop pod. It's small enough to be for a single Uber important librarian, but big enough to fit a dozen of the sitting down metal marines. Whaddya think?





Not painted or cleaned up at all... I just finished the build tonight.

So, so? Whaddya think?

Cheers
Serif

[zark]

Looks good, however I dont like the round bottom I can jus tse it landing then falling on its side

[serif]

It's not totally round, it has a flat bottom.. it is standing on its own. Besides something streaking towards the ground fast enough to bypass defenses is going to indent itself a little me thinks And, there needs to be something to helps with the air friction.

[zark]

Make it a big spear tip so when it gets launched out of the ship in orbit they can aim for the enemy leader Then again I like the idea of things gettign impaled

[iamnotamoose]

It looks good but... *looks at the positioning of the stabilisers* Is this thing suposed to come down like a... helicopter rotor? I wouldn't want to be inside it

[serif]

my intent was last few seconds rotation to position the opening properly.... either that or it just looks cool, take yer pick.

[Shas'o Tash'var Kais Pat]

lol, looking cool is a good enough reason for me... I really like it, and would like to attempt a similar project, so could you tell me how you did it?

[serif]

it was actually VERY simple.

Materials:
2 sheets .5 or 1mm platicard (i used .5)
1 set Rhino top hatch
bass guitar wire
random bits and bobbles for lights/ iconography whatever
Model monster truck hub and rim stacked ( but use whatever looks effective as a thruster)

Just measure 6 1.5" x 2.5" rectangles (the size is really up to you, I wanted to just balance between too big for 1 and too small for 10) DO NOT CUT OUT THESE RECTANGLES.

Measure them consecutively so you end up with a a large 9" x 2.5" rectangle

Cut out rectangle and score inside lines

VERY carefully bend the plasticard til it snaps a little along each line

Glue ends together (i used super glue as a spot weld then plastic glue to really melt it together)

Run plastic glue along each seem, i made mine messy because I want it to look like weld lines when it's painted.

when it's dry, trace it out and cut out the hexagon, glue little support pieces 5mm into the top of the structure, this will be the mount for the hexagon.

glue in hexagon

For the long vertical pieces, I took the butress outlines from the building template on GW website and just extended it to fit the height of the pod

For the bottom, I traced the hexagon onto 1.5" polystyrene and just shaved/ filed it into a dome shape with a flat bottom so that it can sit on the table.

Paint to your heart's content!

Cheers
Serif

[Shas'o Tash'var Kais Pat]

Sweet, thanx!