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Below is my dreadnought drop pod I've started. I'm alittle stuck on how I want to go about attaching and henging the doors. I plan on sticking magnets on the top to lock it in place so I can keep then shut and open them on need. I just am currently unsure what would be the best method on hinge at the momment. Other adivse will be welcome as well. I will be filling those awful gaps with GS later


Carl

I think anything but a simple hinge at the bottom will be too much work. Given the size of the base and doors, you may be able to literally use very small metal hinges from a hardware store, and hide them under a plasticard layer.

I've always felt like the doors should slide up, instead of flopping flat, that way they stay out of the way during play.

That's probably more complicated than you'd like, but it'd be very unique, and nice to play with as well.

Small hinges can also be got from the dolls house furniture section of a good hobby shop.

Simple hinges - but make the doors two part, top hinges up, bottom hinges down. Don't have the ridiculous petal issues that way.

you don't have to hinge them at all... when the pod lands, I always imagined the doors blowing all the way off, not peeling back. It'd be especially cool if your doing it with a dread, as a frag blast wouldn't hurt him.

you could even use it with some special rules... all models within 6" of the pod take a str4 ap6 wound... like from a frag missile.

Horst wrote:you don't have to hinge them at all... when the pod lands, I always imagined the doors blowing all the way off, not peeling back. It'd be especially cool if your doing it with a dread, as a frag blast wouldn't hurt him.

you could even use it with some special rules... all models within 6" of the pod take a str4 ap6 wound... like from a frag missile.

the doors blowing all the way off? kid, the imperium is poor and can't efford to buy a set of new drop-pod doors everyday...

I really like the double hinge Idea and never thought of tha and sounds pretty handy. Also this will eventually be a VDR droppod for gray knights. I run a large number of teleport attacks and its lame becouse it leave my dreadnought completley in the open. Besides I think its lame that I high influence classified inquisitoral space marines can't seem to manipulate things to get droppods/teleport for the dreadnougths is sort of lame. The sliding up Idea is a really cool but would be way complicated at this point, the split two hinge approach is pretty sure the route I will go. Thanks for the adivce.

Double hinges would be very cool, but how will you make the upper door segment stay up when open? if it doesn't stay up, you'll lose most of the visual impact of a two-part door.

Not sure yet but will most likely inolve small magnets. Some how in the sides or in the top fins somewhere lined up with where it would look good when opened.

Drill and pin a brass rod through the bottom part of the door and the supporting walls.