Glue them to the bottom of each side of the door.įinally, grab some plastic card (I used 1mm thick, but it shouldn't matter). Take the smaller pieces from the inner doors, and cut them so they are flat- we want the detail, but we don't want a lip on them. As you can see on the right, that just created a whole bunch of space (don't worry, we'll fix it) The sloped end should be lined up with the top of the door. Line that up along the front of the Pod door and glue. There's a lip just inside the long pieces we've cut. Turn the long pieces sideways and cut about half the plastic off the top- the part we're mostly interested in is the front with all the little circles. Cut the sides off, then cut the side pieces where the bend is (you can throw away the walkway part). Get the 4 inner door parts that weren't used earlier. Now to get some extra room around the sides. So, we've raised the roof and partly lowered the floor (you didn't think we were done with that, did you?). Be sure to line it up so that it actually clips into the central column when closed. It will require a bit of sanding and/or cutting to get a good fit. The final step is to glue the remaining panel from the central column to the front door. Instead of gluing the last two fins on the side doors, stick them both on the front door like so: Now here's a slight twist on the original method.
Give it a bit of time to set, then remove the little part we left on the wall. Once that's set, slide the gun placement in and glue. Take the 3 fins, and assemble as normal EXCEPT that the central column lines up with the top section of the fins. Glue on the side panels- visually they should face the same way up as a regular pod, but technically speaking they're upside-down on the cyliner (confused?) Don't attach the front panel (remember which part is the front?). The gun attachment is going on top of the Drop Pod. Ok, central column- Glue the two main cylinders together, then turn it upside down. Incase you missed it before, get rid of that bump one the side. As I mentioned earlier, the central column is moving up, so to make it look good be sure to measure out the space for the panel. Be sure to leave just a little piece at the bottom- it will be getting removed later, but we'll need it to be able to glue the fin in the right place (cuts marked in red, finished piece at bottom).Ĭontinuing with the 3 fins, make an angled cut along the part that would normally be the ceiling. On the other 3 fins, remove the fancy piece lining the wall. I've taken it a step further and removed the support piece on the right. We're going to be shifting the central column up a bit (more room!), so the 5 fins also need to be flattened off (finished one below left, cuts marked on right)Īs with that other tutorial, two of the fins need the bottom parts removed. First up, cut the red part out of all 5 fins. Now for the fins that form the walls (such as they are). You also might notice I removed the bottom from 3 of the doors- seemed like a good idea at the time, but really not necessary (and it creates gaps that are impossible to fill later). From here on out, the one complete door will be The Front, and the 2 doors opposite will be The Back. Notice that only one door has the internal facing glued on. When the tiny floor pieces are attatched, the supporting bits of the base should be trimmed back so they line up with the top part. The other 3 supports can be cut to fit the Dreadnought base. The back two floor supports (either side of the door in the left pic) need to be cut back to line up with the bottom of the door. Space inside the Pod is at a premium, so to get some extra space we lower the floor. This bugged me on two fronts: 1, I'm lazy and can't be bothered with magnets 2, I like the idea of having everything self-contained in the Pod, so that the first an opponent sees of the Dread' is when the doors swing down and it wanders out. The one downside to that method is that while the Drop Pod will take a Dreadnought, it won't take one with the base attatched.
I'll be doing a bunch of stuff he covers there, and because I'm lazy I won't be restating the reasons why.
The goal: convert a Space Marine Drop Pod so that it holds a Dreadnought with it's base.Ĭredit where credit's due, the bulk of this conversion was taken from an excellent tutorial on The Magnet Pro blog.