New Drop Pod

[HeadlessCross]

1 hour ago, Robbienw said:

 

Better kit, more detailing, full pod model.  Obviously.

Not sure what more detailing you're alluding to...

[MoriyaSchism]

21 minutes ago, HeadlessCross said:

Not sure what more detailing you're alluding to...

Internal weapon mount, a harness that's rendered better and lack of hollow rocks that just take up space on the sprue. 

[jaxom]

3 hours ago, Robbienw said:

 

Better kit, more detailing, full pod model.  Obviously.

Thank you for explaining. My earlier disagreement stands, but that’s because I have a different set of criteria for determining “better.”

[Osteoclast]

14 hours ago, Joe said:

I feel like I'm the only one who spotted how easy the new kit is going to be to magnetise and break down for travel. That's not actually awful in of itself.

 

As a magnetizing noob (never again on Centurions), how does it look easy to magnetize? Only thing I noticed is that cutting and magnetizing the doors to be able to flip them up and down isn't going to be very doable (had thought they might be on the first preview).

[Nephaston]

Don't know about magnetizing, but judging by how the otherwise hollow thruster bit is thick where it meets the fins, I would guess that they can be friction fitted without any glue or magnets.

[Deus_Ex_Machina]

On 6/27/2025 at 12:15 AM, MoriyaSchism said:

That's worse than I imagined. Amazing how it's worse in every regard even down to the way spure space is used. The way they added random rocks while parts of the door are cut in half is just so good. The old one was a three sprue set, but one of the frames was a duplicate door frame. I love the Pac-man shaped sprue circle around the hollow engine part. That's just really funny. 

Hmm, take the bottom part of the kit and a healthy amount of Greenstuff. After a bit of modelling you will have a starfish from the void of deep space itself. Great for many Daemons of the Ruinstorm lists.

[Robbienw]

14 hours ago, HeadlessCross said:

Not sure what more detailing you're alluding to...

The internals are more detailed with more pieces, as in the harnesses and the central pieces.  

The entire bottom part on the old model is detailed vs not detailed on the new ones.

 

A quick glance at pictures of both models will tell you all these things 

Edited 12 hours ago by Robbienw

[Marshal Rohr]

I don’t hate it. Stahly showed a comparison, it’s the same height but the doors are smaller which is fine with me. The plastic rocks you can attach under the doors are nice, but kind of exaggerate the “floating above the ground” look models without bases have. Rather just save those for dread and automata bases. 

[Nephaston]

1 hour ago, Marshal Rohr said:

I don’t hate it. Stahly showed a comparison, it’s the same height but the doors are smaller which is fine with me. The plastic rocks you can attach under the doors are nice, but kind of exaggerate the “floating above the ground” look models without bases have. Rather just save those for dread and automata bases. 

 

Stahly also measure the new diameter of the footprint to be about 19cm, so one could put it on a base for aesthetics. Just have to find someone offering 190mm bases.

[CL_Mission]

Although I think the underside of the new pod is unfortunate I'm probably more bummed out about the harness set up being part of the hull, though it makes totally sense to do it this way. I had toyed with the idea of buying a pair and sticking them on one big base, painting them all aged and weathered and using them for area terrain, for this I think they'd look much better with out the internals and it would be easier to place model amongst them. Nothing a saw won't fix but I had been thinking of it as a super easy no nonsense project.

[Marshal Rohr]

I think the implication of Drop Pods moving from a fraction transport SKU to faction terrain SKU is pretty startling, because faction terrain is not guaranteed to be around forever. The mobaficiation of 40K eventually removing transports that don’t also have some kind of big gun or gimmick will be a pretty big blow to 40K as wargame and one more step on the way to game workshop trying to make Tacticus you play with action figures. 

[jaxom]

9 minutes ago, Marshal Rohr said:

fraction transport SKU to faction terrain SKU is pretty startling

Eh, they’re more like a hammerfall bunker than a rhino.

[Marshal Rohr]

Yeh, I don’t think the hammerfall is making it to 11th my friend