Drop pod finished

Finished my prototype, and I like how it turned out. Still think I'll try shortening it a couple of mm next time. I'll also be more careful with the glue, messiness really shows at this scale.

Ready for deployment

Added a few little detail to the pod, and this is where I'll leave it. Except for the size concerns, I'm pretty happy with the result, and will be looking forward to getting it painted.

Scale

A bit concerned about the size of droppod - a bit on the large side I'm afraid. It not too bad, and I guess making it smaller will make it somewhat less detailed - not sure I want to go down that road. What do you think?

Also been painting up a lot more of little guys.

Detailing the drop pod

Have been working all night to get the fins to work, but it's simply not easy enough to reproduce the shape to the desired similarity. I have instead added the other planned detail, and I think it works pretty well. Now I just need to fill in the blanks with GS, and perhaps add a little contour or a symbol to the doors.

Mk.II Drop pod

As I had the basic shape in place, I started thinking about how to get some cool looking detail onto the model. Though I can't make it look like he GW model, I'll try to take it that direction, as I really like that design. The first step was changing the shape a bit and add some wider bits - stabilizers I think they are?
I have also been trying to add a fin - tested on the old piece - will have to be level with the edge though, and I'm not sure how much it really adds to the model.

Heavy Droppings

As promised I've been trying out different ways to finish the droppod - wood, miliput in different shapes and last but not least plasticcard. Couldn't really get it right for some time, and I guess I should have stayed with the stuff I know best. IMO the plastic card one is by far the best, and honestly also the easiest and fastest to do. So I guess I have the basics now - well time for refinement, detail work will be following shortly.

Hatches

While I was trying to get the hatches on the drop pod right, I really went through a lot of balsa. Turned out it wasn't quite as easy to get it right as I had hoped. The main problem was actually to come up with a shape I would be able to reproduce several times, and hence I went through almost as many designs as little pieces of wood.
I ended up with this, a piece slightly shorter than the main structure, and with a short slope at the top. I would have liked to get the usual shape, with a sharp bend following the contours of the structure, but I would never be able to do several that would look suitingly alike. I pretty confident, that once I add a bit of detail to the structure it will look just about right.

But of cause

Yes, of cause - couldn't help my self, no need for just painting up stuff, gotta build some as well. As drop pods seem to be hard to find a good proxy for - and the ones being left on GW is fairly expensive, I decided to try make some.

Cutting out a couple of shapes in 1 mm plastic card, and using the old kindergarten x-mas tree sliding trick, the basic shape was pretty easy to come by. Works rather well I think. The dimensions are 18 mm across in the bottom, and 30 mm high. For the body/doors mi compadre, just suggested parting a rod in four, which would give me four 90 degree angles to work with. So hopefully I can get past the hobby shop today.