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Hey everyone, I have seen the new Forge World Contemptor Pattern Dred and decided that I wanted one for my BA successor. The problem is that I want to mount it in a drop pod and it seems that it is too tall to fit.


As you can see, the 40k dred only just fits into the drop pod. My question is does anyone have any ideas, inspiration or tutorials relating to the converison of a drop pod to accomidate the relative height of the pre heresy dred? This issue will very likely come up as the dred is released and more players buy it.

My bet is to watch Forgeworld. They might release a drop pod for one.

Though I don't believe they used drop pods during the heresy so it might not be a sure-fire bet.

Joyous_Oblivion wrote:My bet is to watch Forgeworld. They might release a drop pod for one.

Though I don't believe they used drop pods during the heresy so it might not be a sure-fire bet.

If you wanna go really traditional then you could pick up some Chaos Dreadclaws. I'm not sure which publication it is in but there is a fluff entry about the Dreadclaw saying that it was a mainstay among the chapters but all of the Dreadclaw Machine Spirits went the way of Horus and started "malfunctioning" during use, causing loyalists to be crushed and killed. In response the loyalist chapters jettisoned them.

Again, I'm not sure which IA this is from but I'm pretty sure that is how the story goes. Hopefully someone with the proper IA book can further elaborate/edit.

The contemptor might be able to knee down in the normal pod?

Just remember that most tourneys dont allow the FW dread drop pod because of the sheer size of the dam thing!

I'd figure they just curl up in the fetal position.

It might be possible with some work to pin the legs in such a way that the legs fold back on themselves leaving the model in a croutch.

The better question to ask however is how likely is it that a sucessor chapter would even have acess to this weapon. If its as rare as FW makes it sound then I doubt the original chapters would have given them away. This might not bother some people, but it would bother me if it was my army.

It is a 30K Dread, so I would go for the Old Drop pods from Epic 40k. Rather than trying to shoe horn it into a Modern Drop pod. No School, like the Old Skool.





Just an idea..

Those pods look so much cooler than the current ones...

not only that the dread on your comparison pic is a fw dread i dont see any problems with using gw pods for dreads,troops or contemptor dreads.

it really doesnt matter if they fit into the pod or not. you cant even fit your ten man sm squad into a pod or a rhino

That is true...

Have you noticed that all the Land Raider Variants are the same size?

Yet can fit 10--16 models in them ?

Hey thanks for the help! I do want to fit the dred inside the pod for the simple reason of looking good. Maybe I could convert a GW pod in a similar way to this tutorial that I found on the web while using plasticard to make the pod taller? http://themagnetpro.blogspot.com/2010/02/dreadnought-drop-pod-conversion.html

@SonicPara: I really like that idea... The dreadclaw also looks as if it is wide enough to accomidate a dred...

@Catyrpelius: A successor chapter may have inherited a portion of the original legion's wargear and relics if they are nearer to second founding. This would justify a successor having a pre heresy dreadnought, and FW also painted their Contemptor Dred as an Astral Claw, so a successor owning suhc a relic would be extremely rare, but not impossible. Perhaps they were common enough for perhaps the first two millenia after the second founding that the original chapters would give them to their successors.

@Catyrpelius, Zefig, Lord of Rebirth: That is a really great idea... Maybe sort of like the position Arnold teleports in the Terminator movies...

That would probably work. Especially if he immediately goes to a biker bar afterwards to obtain clothing and additional transportation.

I would agree that certain Chapters would have some 30k Equipment.

A good example is the Imperial Fists, Crimson Fists and Black Templars. As second founding they would have and indeed did, divide up DORNS Wargear, so I can guess that some of the items from the HH and defence of Terra would have ended up as Relics in the other off-spring chapters (Arrow of Dorn for Pedro Kantor, The Sword of High Marshalls? The one DORN snaps over his knee) etc. A few Dreads is relatively small fry, compare to the Primarchs Original Wargear and Armour!

well it might work if you mount more of the engine pod on the outside, that's the real problem here. I would cut three pieces. First cut would be to chop a slice to hold the top of the drop prod together. I have a dreadnought drop pod and it very much depends on the engine to stay together, so slice a section and keep it there. make it flush with the top and the bottom. On the bottom cut another slice, if you want to, to keep some minor detail underneath then add the left over parts and stack them on the top. The result is get a tall external engine and a very small, if any internal section to it give you more space.

This is a quick and dirty illustration for the basic concept, I would add some bits to the top to shore it up. maybe some armour.

Good idea, Orinoco - it keeps the basic pod structure, only requiring moving the engine. I'd probably replace/move the top fins too.

If you are literally going to build the model into the drop pod, then you will need a forge world one. I don't think you need to do any real modification to it - It's not a human and doesn't need to be able to walk into the pod. There is no reason it couldn't sit down, fold it's knees close to it's chest, and be pushed into the pod by a specialized servitor. You're going to need to do a lot of magnetizing but I think you could make it work.

On the other hand, if this is a philosophical type issue, such as that you just think it looks too small, well then, I think you're maybe overthinking this. Sure it looks to small. Every transport vehicle is out of scale. An Ork Trukk could never carry 12 Orks, a Land Raider can't fit 20 marines, and so on and so forth. So I'd just let that one go.

Kludgetastic. Pardon our dust.

Those 30K pods look kinda like the Star Wars Thermal Detonators:

Orinoco's idea is a good one.

Indeed they do, SSK.

I think I'd just cut, shorten and rebuild the engine. Doing greebly pipework is actually pretty easy, arguably easier than actually messing with the exterior dimensions of the pod.

CappyBen wrote:Just remember that most tourneys dont allow the FW dread drop pod because of the sheer size of the dam thing!

Yes, that's the reason, and not that the FW Dread Pod allows the Dread to charge out of it.

I know the thread is a little old, but I'll throw out my idea since I'm thinking something similar. Why not add some jetpacks on to the back (used as retro boosters) and have the contemptor land without a droppod. Similar to the mobile infantry from Starship Troopers (the book, not the movie).