I originally bought this model for my Ultramarines, but never got around to painting it despite having magnetized and assembled it into subgroups. As of this morning, it looks like this:
It's a pretty simple model. You replace the complicated harnesses with the missiles racks, which is a HUGE chunk of solid resin once assembled. Unfortunately, shortly after snapping this pic, I snapped off one of the little power feed cables you can see down near the base of the doors. I've broken it twice before, once while removing the sprue gates and once while painting. I couldn't find the piece on the carpet, but I don't think anyone will ever notice. If I do stumble across it later, it should be easy enough to slot into place and glue.
The next steps are the hazard stripes on the doors, and then the main black color. I plan to have it done for the monthly tourney at the FLGS on Saturday. It'll be a 2000 point day, so I'm just running my Standoff list (1750), plus this thing and a few other models. In game terms, the pod is impressive. When it lands, it hits every unit within 12" with d3 Whirlwind shots, each. After that, it functions like a regular Whirlwind, one shot per turn. Slap this bugger down in the middle of a gunline and BOOM.
Last Saturday I managed to get in my first ever game of Blood Bowl. I played Orcs against Humans and had a lot of fun. I'm planning to get the Orc models cleaned of mold lines, assembled, based, and primed soon. Painting will wait until after Christmas, as my wife wanted some small things to get me as gifts, and the pink paints I needed were a perfect option. I've already got various greens for their skin, but have never owned pink paint.
The Blood Bowl Orcs shouldn't take too long to paint, and after they're done I have more Raven Guard or some Harlequins to paint. Not sure which I'll go for. I'm struggling with basing ideas for the Harlies, so I'll have to take some shots and see if you folks can help me decide.
That pod looks like an Ork creation. Slap a big gun on it and call it a day, the Orky way.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, looking good, and the profile is cool too. That could really ruin someone's day when it lands.
Yeah. Very much overkill in aesthetics. It'll look slightly less orky once I put the fin assembly on there, but not too much.
DeleteI'm guessing it'll be a very shock and awe sort of weapon on the table, something that alters opponents' deployment options. There's an element of randomness to its use, what with scatter and d3 scattering barrage shots per unit. It also targets every unit in the twelve inch bubble, even your own. It's more than double the cost of a regular pod, abs if you want it to have drop pod assault to come in first turn, you end up with a total cost just shy of three pods worth of points! Against something mechanized, it'll be mediocre, while foot armies will cringe.