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Re: HOBBY: Space Marine Drop Pod Construction Essentials

Charlotte_Painting — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:19:34 -0000

Very interesting thanks for the info.

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Joe Kopena — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:23:10 -0000

First, this is an excellent article. I just picked up a Drop Pod and this was a big help, and made much more sense than either the printed or online GW directions.

I just wanted to point out two things: To clarify what BrassScorpion is saying, the problem not that the skull harness with round pegs will not fit into the square support pieces. The problem is actually that one of the support walls has round holes for its harness, though it's super super hard to tell that it's not square. To find it, you can do a couple things:

- Take one of the squared pegged harnesses and try it in every support until you find the one that it (surprisingly) won't fit into.
- Look for the support piece that has two very small cables drooping down from the central, thicker cable that connects into the center pylon. The other four supports only have 1 cable hanging in a small loop.

I would also note that people should budget a lot of time for this model. It's more complex than it looks at first glance. The interior harness pieces are fairly fiddly and at least my copy had a fair amount of flash that had to be cleaned off carefully.

In any event, thanks again Brass!

Re: HOBBY: Space Marine Drop Pod Construction Essentials

TSINI — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:46:58 -0000

im sure if you were playing a non-tournament game with some good like-minded friends this wouldnt be a problem at all, we used to make flyers crash into the ground when they got shot down, rolling 3D6 and landing the wreckage that many inches in the direction the flyer is pointing. this made for some fun moments as the aircraft plummeted into squads of men and slow to react tanks.

i think the basic idea was it counted as a battle cannon ordinance blast, to keep the rules simple.

no reason why you couldnt agree on this (if the game was drop pod heavy for example, the dangers to the enemy would be increased)

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zaarin7 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:35:42 -0000

The uniqe harness is on the sprue with one door.

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Alan — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 07:45:01 -0000

I'm just about to build my drop pod, this is definetly going to help because you should have seen the first vehicle/dreadnought i made!
Thanks very much

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gsjtitan — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:53:57 -0000

Great tips...probably would have missed the difference in the harnesses without this.

Thanks!

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squighound — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:57:46 -0000

That would be sooooo cool! worth while getting a drop pod even!

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Horrible Hager — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:59:07 -0000

I am working on my second pod, and yes, you can use the small magnets to change out the weapons. I plan to do that on all of my pods so that I can use whatever strikes my fancy on game day.

Re: HOBBY: Space Marine Drop Pod Construction Essentials

Lord — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:42:13 -0000

I was just saying that it would be cool if a drop pod could ram, and GW made rules for it. I can easily see a frightened guard squad awaiting the SM army, which is charging across. Then suddenly a guy looks up, sees the drop pod, and the squad scatters. Except for one guy, who is to slow.....

anyway, it would be cool. I mean why would a drop pod purposely miss an enemy squad?

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Ahriman — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:36:08 -0000

Yeah I for one would definitely like to see some Dread Claw conversions - the SOV 2 book has updates for them - they now count as open topped and it got me thinking if they will count the same for apocalypse?

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Culial — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:43:56 -0000

Getting assistance at a store...yeah...

My FLGS has 5-6 Pods...none of the doors close...

Thanks for this guide, Pay Day is fast approaching and I feel some Pods will be coming my way...

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Parcival — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:46:23 -0000

BrassScorpion, thanks for this hobby article, it's very helpful like all the others you post!

I haven't purchased a Drop Pod yet, but soon will for my Blood Angels. Now as a BA player my Codex allows only to use the storm bolter, but I still have hope that a future Codex will allow to use the Death Wind rockets. I have magnets that are 1 millimeter thick; do you think I could use them to exchange the drop pod's weapon system and still have enough space to have it freely turning?

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Space Machines — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:41:36 -0000

When have instructions ever been useful? The Baneblade was next to impossible without the White Dwarf assembly article!

Drop Pod instructions look good - I'll be using them alongside the GW web guide when I get round to opening mine!

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Silverblade — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:23:13 -0000

I'd argue that it's actually more important in 5th Ed, cause with the doors open you'd probably be able to trace a line of fire to a model beyond it, whereas with the doors shut you'd deny the line of fire. If you left the doors shut you'd have to allow your opponent to trace LOS through it as if it was open anyway. (otherwise your marines have just plummeted planetside in a large tin can they cannot get out of!) I'd also argue that without the doors open, the access point is blocked and no models can disembark. Only because the doors are specifically designed to open in this case, and I know you can argue against it because a Rhino has side hatches that don't open - but that's just my take on it.

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Mooooooo! — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:00:46 -0000

Neat model as all get out, but buying what amounts to a large building on the table that really serves as just a overblown landing mark seems off to me. I'd rather just scratch it out of cardstock and be done with it.

Here is the irony: I am still considering buying one because I can see about a thousand uses for the various bits on non-pod models.

Beat that, Brembridge Scholars!

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Savark — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:35:32 -0000

I still need a drop pod, say anyone wanna rino for a drop pod? cause imagine the SMBC apocalypse kit in DPs instead of rhinos!

Re: HOBBY: Space Marine Drop Pod Construction Essentials

BrassScorpion — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:16:49 -0000

Remember, ramming is a special form of tank shock and so can only be performed by vehicles labeled "Tank" in the rules. If the word "tank" does not appear in the rules for a given vehicle in the appropriate Codex, it can't ram.

I don't game too much these days but I always build my armies with the appropriate Codex and a bit of gaming in mind. My plan is to use Land Raiders and Deep Striking for Terminators. I plan to have a regular Land Raider, a Land Raider Crusader and Redeemer as well. Tacticals will ride in Rhinos or Drop Pods, small elite squads in Razorbacks, Sternguard in a Drop Pod. Drop Pods are also great for Dreadnoughts and I will have a number of those thanks to the Black Reach starter set, so I expect to Drop Pod a Dreadnought or two now and again as well.

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Sevej — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:55:40 -0000

Can anyone that has the model assembled measure its height from the bottom to the top fins? I'm in the proccess of making display cabinet, but it'd not be funny if I can't put the drop pod it (since IIRC it's the tallest of the normal models--non titans).

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rockdeity — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:44:53 -0000

yeah, this is way better than the GW version. I used it for my first and was unsatisfied so looked for other people's thoughts. I found in some posts that doing all the seats as one part before attaching as Brass suggested is way easier and probably most importantly... filing the bottoms of the doors is key. I was glad to know that's all I had to do to fix the doors. I think it is pretty much guaranteed that some or all of your doors will not close properly if you don't do that. Big ups, Brass. Thanks.

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Brother_Marius — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:28:25 -0000

Thanks so much for this, even with the GW article ANY additional insight is greatly welcome. I've been staring at my pods for a couple weeks now, and been reading the complaints about the issues you addressed (harnesses and the doors), it's good to see you have the fix. Your assembly and paint order is spot on, it's what I ended up with myself (or near enough), and I've been building GW stuff since Rogue Trader.
Thanks BrassScorpion, and thanks BoLS!

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Lord — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:11:56 -0000

Out of interest, they allow ramming with vehicles, surely they should do the same with Drop Pods? or just fill one with explosives.....

Also, excellent article. What is the name of your chapter, Brass Scorpion? it should be interesting to watch its creation. Is your plan to deepstrike the tacticals, and teleport the termies?

Re: HOBBY: Space Marine Drop Pod Construction Essentials

BrassScorpion — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:06:06 -0000

Let's have a peek at some pics of those Dreadclaw conversions when you're done.
Chaos conversions = goodness!

Re: HOBBY: Space Marine Drop Pod Construction Essentials

BrassScorpion — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:41:29 -0000

I would be happy to continue to provide this kind of content. It's nice to see there's a demand for it. Articles like this don't generate a lot of feedback in the way of comments, but I know from my experience at the game store that there are a lot of people looking for assistance with modeling and painting. Siince all of them can't necessarily get assistance at a store, online hobby forums are another way to help fellow hobbyists. Thanks for your support on this type of hobby topic.

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Thierry — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:24:40 -0000

I just dropped this thing off. Thanks for the explanation. I was so upset I did not even take the time to check those nasty harnesses.

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Azzy — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:22:06 -0000

I have had it with these m*****f****** snakes on this m*****f****** cake!