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So for those who will be playing Tyranids and using a Tyranid drop pod (what is the official name in English called?) what will you use? How will it look? I like someone said a "pineapple" so now I can't get that out of my head

So what do you guys plan on doing? Any ideas? I almost can see using the LotR mini watch in the deep or what ever it's called, with it's tenticles, not shure how big or small that is.

So any idea guys and girls? What do you plan on doing and using?

Going to probably get a styrofoam sphere from an art store and hollow parts of it out. Cheapest solution I can think of until real models come out (assuming they do).

I don't want to post the pic but this is what i'm going to be using. They are 7" tall and seem to have a solid base as well as looking suitably alien. Spray painting them black and then painting them up to my army color should make it work. I'm thinking about attaching them to a 60mm if it's possible. I ordered 3 since they were so cheap

http://www.amazon.com/Mega-Bloks-Plasma-Hatcher-Monster/dp/B00172M8YG/ref=pd_sim_t_1

Not taking away from some creative ideas that will stem from this, but I foresee a lot of pre Space Marine drop pod craziness:

ashtrays
coke cans
soda bottles
templates

Yay.... GW, I hope you are going to make a model for this and soon. You're losing money each day you don't have one for sale.

Epicast actually released a Tyranid drop pod model, I happen to have a few. I don't actually play nids, but should the compulsion ever overwhelm me, I guess I'll use those.

I'm going to start with a coconut and add stuff until I'm happy.



(or bored)

A Coke Can...to go along with the Soda Bottle Fex.

Potted plants.

Potted Plants...
You know, that's been done in my area.

The Strawberry Shortcake Marines had their Venerable Dreadnought use a Potted Plant as the drop pod, bright pink, butterflies all over it, with bolters around the rim to represent the Launcher system...

Yea...

I'm a fan of the pineapple idea. saying that if i got a wax one, painted it to match the colour scheme of my nids and then stuck some spare gribbly bits on it might not look that bad. hmm i'll have to start raiding charity shops for oap's discarded wax fruit

DerangdFlamingo wrote:I'm a fan of the pineapple idea. saying that if i got a wax one, painted it to match the colour scheme of my nids and then stuck some spare gribbly bits on it might not look that bad. hmm i'll have to start raiding charity shops for oap's discarded wax fruit

When you said the first bit I thought you were referring to an actual, edible pineapple. And was trying to work out how on earth you'd get that to work on the tabletop without rotting or dripping or otherwise being impractical.

Its not only a capsule, its an MC with stats.
Therefore, a coke can is an oversimplification.

Ketara wrote:Epicast actually released a Tyranid drop pod model, I happen to have a few. I don't actually play nids, but should the compulsion ever overwhelm me, I guess I'll use those.

How big is that figure, anyway? I've seen a few pictures of one but never with anything included to indicate approximate size.

Wait? Nids are getting a drop pod?

Nope, something close to it.
There is the rumors thread available to be viewed by you... right?

Anyway...I prefer something akin to Sunken Colonies.....O SNAP!!! STAR 'CRAP' reference!!
Just to make it look like it's delivere and is now ready to deal death to who ever walks close enough.

If I do one I'll just take a massive blob of greenstuff and put it on a 60mm base.

I think Ill build my wife some out of coco puffs. That way if I get hungry mid game, I can just take a bite or 3. Itll look like battle damage anyway

Persephone 66 wrote:Wait? Nids are getting a drop pod?

Yes it's a drop pod, but called, spore something or what not. I didn't care for the name so it dosn't stick to me. Rumour is you can have 20 gaunts or One MC in there. Once it lands it is imobilzied and is a MC as well. It can carry a few types of weapons and has like tenticles wich is a 6" fire weapon. I am not shure what it's stats are but you might be able to find them in the Tyranid rumouor threads.

GW...FW....someone? Please make your own model.

Though I think a FW would be better looking. But a GW one would be cheaper.... Oh, the choices.

Swiping the picture Alex Kolodotschko posted in the Rumor thread. It's the egg thing a Mega Bloks Plasma Hatcher comes in. They sell online for between $7 and $15 it looks like, so really quite affordable, and once painted should look real good even without much of any conversion work.

Yeah, painted, that should be pretty good.

Don't forget primer!

Yeah, someone on Warseer actually had one painted and it looked pretty awesome. I've already ordered 3 of them to paint up for my lists. Nothing like 3 drop pods for almost have the price of a SM one.

Hulksmash wrote:Yeah, someone on Warseer actually had one painted and it looked pretty awesome. I've already ordered 3 of them to paint up for my lists. Nothing like 3 drop pods for almost have the price of a SM one.

Do you have a link to that image? I tried to find it but failed.

It was in one of the rumor threads. I wouldn't want to wade thru 99 pages for an image but it did look pretty good.

If Nyds get MC Drop Pod assaults, my already screwed Guardsmen will get even more screwed, carnifex on my tanks AT TURN ONE/TWO!!!

They don't get Drop Pod Assault style rule, so at best they're coming in turn two. If a Lictor was on the table at the start of the turn, it counts as a home beacon though, so they do have a no scatter option in there.

Orangecoke wrote:Do you have a link to that image? I tried to find it but failed.

Don't know if this was the one from Warseer (Tyranid threads @ Warseer *shudder*) but it's from an eBay auction:

As nobody's mentioned the actual name...

Mycetic spore, children.

I suggest dunking a tennis ball in a REALLY thick sand/glue mixture, plopping it down and adding Tyranid bitz.

Thanks Buxom, that's the one.

But why do that when for $7 you could have something that looks like it would belong in a tyrannid army like the above. I understand why people had a hard time with the drop pods since there weren't a whole lot of options out there (best one I knew of was the starwars escape pod which wasn't cheap) but this is easy to get and cheap.