If you have some innovative upgrades or twists, please link them in the comments for others to find. Now that you have some ideas, get out there and make those Dreadclaws for your Legions, Daemonkin, CSM and whatever other Lost and Damned souls you choose to fling across the Grim Darkness! Make something that looks cool! Those Chaos symbols are awesome and make me want to redo my pod! He made some great changes to the design and he has a tutorial here covering those changes. Here is another great take on the conversion from A Host of Word Bearers:ĭamn, I really love this take on the design! From there you can add Chaos bits or just freehand paint symbols in later. Id found these amazing conversions a while ago, but only recently have made significant progress. Those sharp angles made all the difference to me. With the 6th Edition 40k Chaos Codex and the Horus Heresy Forgeworld line on the horizon, Ive begun looking at what I need to build to play in both. To make the pod more aggressive, I also shaved the corners off where the points touch the ground. A variant pattern of drop pod used in a similar manner to a Boarding Torpedo corvus assault pods are used to assault other ships or Space Stations in. To add those, just take the little fans that you find in the drop pod bits and find a home for them toward the bottom of each petal, where the regular drop pod would have a joint (check the photo above). From here you can just add those little details that make the pod more your own.įor me that meant adding the retro thrusters. If you left the inside of the door petals off of the model, this step is easy, but if you didn't listen, you may need to do some shaving.Īfter one good dry fit, glue the fins into place. They will fit snugly (good thing), the idea is for the corner to catch under the lip made by the turbine bit on the engine housing, the other area you cut should fit snugly into the grove where the fin would normally go on the bottom side. Now take your fins and insert each one into the slots made between each door. Then glue the top corner of each door to the top of each square section from the engine housing that matches each door, leaving the actual turbine above the door (or hull as they now form on the dread claw). Also assemble the engine completely as you normally would with a drop pod. That being said, it is also very easy to customize once built and while it take some work, it is much easier to put together than an actual drop pod. Now glue it together so you have the normal pod petal for the bottom (you don't need any of the bits for the inside as the dreadclaw will never open). So my original intent was to make this pod for my Iron Warriors (read: Plain) and to also make a pod that anybody could convert, so it is simple. (if you fully assemble each petal to include the inside of it, you will have a ton of issues fitting the fins into place). Hope you enjoy, any comments and questions please enter below.Now assemble the pod's petals with just the outside panels, leaving the inside part on the sprue as you will not need it. Moral of the story is DONT AIM FOR A MOUNTAIN! 1 test, hit a mountain and rolled all the way down, lost 2 hatch ramps and 1 passenger, still had all important components still managed to stand upright and majority of crew survived. 6 Tests successful with lots of damage but none to important comonents, hatch ramps take most of the damage. After collision and rolling around for a bit, hit the reverse ramps button and the pod should right itself and everyone can disembark FLY DIRECTLY AT PLANET -> ENSURE BASE AND LANDING GEAR ARE POINTING AT GROUND -> BRACE. However you will need to add the extra materials needed to do so in the container. It is the quickest possible method of landing on a planet (and surviving) with enough resources to establish a basic base of operations. It can survive impacts onto a planet or asteroid while travelling at 104.4m/s (Max vanilla speed). It also needed to be as small as possible to be stored and launched from another ship. This craft is designed to be as lightweight resources-wise as possible. If you want to repaint it in Space Marine Chapter colours then be my guest :) This design was basically thrown together so dont expect perfection but it is great fun to use and play with.Īnd yes it is inspired by Games Workshops Warhammer 40k Space Marines all credit where due, but dont ask me to try and fit a dreadnaught in there. This is a drop pod designed to be launched from a large orbital craft directly to the planet's surface. This will probably be the ONLY craft i design to crash on purpose.
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