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2008/02/13 00:01:18
Subject: Drop Pods on cheap budget.......revisited
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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This is a restart to older post
Drop Pods
http://www.minivault.com/ModelingDropPods.htm
My question is how tall does this come out to be? I went to hardware store and tried to get pieces as close as description. I figure it to be 3-4" tall. Anyone else do this project?
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2012 tourney record:
Eldar 18W-2L-5D Overall x4
Deathwing 21W-7L-6D Overall x4 Best General x1 Best Appearance x3, 19th place Adepticon 40k Champs.
Space Wolves 2W-0L-1D Best Painted x1
Armies:
 1850+ pts.  3000+ pts.  2000+
40k bits go to my ebay... http://stores.shop.ebay.com/K-K-Gaming-and-Bits |
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2008/02/13 00:07:45
Subject: Drop Pods on cheap budget.......revisited
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Obviously it's taller. The pieces I found were 3-4" when put together. I may have to go to Home Depot or Lowes. Bigger plumbing dept. than my local little hardware store.
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2012 tourney record:
Eldar 18W-2L-5D Overall x4
Deathwing 21W-7L-6D Overall x4 Best General x1 Best Appearance x3, 19th place Adepticon 40k Champs.
Space Wolves 2W-0L-1D Best Painted x1
Armies:
1850+ pts. 3000+ pts. 2000+
40k bits go to my ebay... http://stores.shop.ebay.com/K-K-Gaming-and-Bits |
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2008/02/13 02:25:20
Subject: Drop Pods on cheap budget.......revisited
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Infiltrating Oniwaban
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I loved seeing all the PVC From the Stars at the 'Ard Boyz tourney. I wonder how many Home Depots mysteriously sold out of 3" pipe-ends that week?
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Infinity: Way, way better than 40K and more affordable to boot!
"If you gather 250 consecutive issues of White Dwarf, and burn them atop a pyre of Citadel spray guns, legend has it Gwar will appear and answer a single rules-related question. " -Ouze |
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2008/02/13 12:19:16
Subject: Drop Pods on cheap budget.......revisited
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Deadshot Weapon Moderati
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Old Man Ultramarine wrote:This is a restart to older post
Drop Pods
http://www.minivault.com/ModelingDropPods.htm
My question is how tall does this come out to be? I went to hardware store and tried to get pieces as close as description. I figure it to be 3-4" tall. Anyone else do this project?
dont bother, build a card/plasticard one using the templates at http://www.geocities.com/wh40kcardtanks/
looks much better
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2008/02/13 13:52:04
Subject: Drop Pods on cheap budget.......revisited
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Bloodtracker
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Why PVC instead of plasticard?
No cutting involved, just shave the writing on it. Simple enough.
Oh yeah you have to paint it 
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2008/02/13 16:08:25
Subject: Drop Pods on cheap budget.......revisited
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Battleship Captain
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Here's the other trick. While the card/plasticard pods look really great, they take about 10 times as long to construct as it does to build one of the PVC pods.
So that's your trade-off - you want your pods to look good? You can:
a) Spend the money on a FW pod
b) Spend the time to build a nice one on your own out of card/plasticard/balsa
You want your pods to be easy?
a) Spend the money on a FW or other homemade pod
b) Build yourself a PVC pod
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2008/02/13 17:20:04
Subject: Re:Drop Pods on cheap budget.......revisited
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Stabbin' Skarboy
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And let us not forget the MInature scenery company's drop pod.
http://www.thewarstore.com/product9157.html
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Cry Havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
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2008/02/13 17:44:23
Subject: Drop Pods on cheap budget.......revisited
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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