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I was looking to add some drop pods into my Marine army, but I've heard they're a notorious pain to assemble and paint (right up there with Penitent Engines). Question: is it better to just build the whole thing then paint afterwards (like you could with say a Rhino), or is it best to paint the parts and/or build out sections then assemble afterwards?
Kaiserbudheim wrote: I was looking to add some drop pods into my Marine army, but I've heard they're a notorious pain to assemble and paint (right up there with Penitent Engines). Question: is it better to just build the whole thing then paint afterwards (like you could with say a Rhino), or is it best to paint the parts and/or build out sections then assemble afterwards?
depends on how good you are at painting and all that, i reccomend painting the shell and wings before assembly but the rest is pretty easy and not bad to paint together (just from experince I am no painting guru)
I reccomend assembling the doors and the troop harnesses. Then prime and paint all separately. Then assemble. I had an extra problem of using polyurethane dip even. I like the way mine turned out. Here's how I solved by door closing problem (I think it is very common). Now they close and look great. Here they are in progress and the brief tutorial.
Hmm...well I consider myself intermediate. Here's a Dreadnought I did not too long ago:
I try to shoot for more realistic and gritty, so I don't normally do "hot" edges, which could cut down the amount of weird angles I might have to reach in the Drop Pod. My foundations are laid down with spray can paint, so I can get smooth areas . That said, I pretty ok at picking out details and at least get clean blocking. I'm hoping this level will look ok on a Pod.
2014/02/18 05:44:12
Subject: Re:Drop Pods: Assembly and painting advice
Here is a pretty good video on painting and assembling a Drop Pod:
He uses an airbrush but you can see what parts he makes in to subassemblies before putting the model together. He has a couple other Drop Pod videos on his YouTube page as well.
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