Building the MOST Frustrating Vehicle in 40k 

This drop pod was one of the reasons I quit when I was 14… I tried to have too many projects going at once and also realised I enjoyed building more than painting. So I built the whole thing. Then realised I couldn’t paint the insides…. So I never touched it and it pisses me off to this day

My biggest gripe about the DP is the rules never let you land and kill enemy models like in the lore.

Drop pods are great, both aesthetically and narratively. Was most displeased with the Dreadclaw being moved to Legends. Very nice paint job, Jay. Personally, I would sooten the bottom half with a drybrush to mimic atmosphere burns.

I never had a problem building drop pods. I usually build it in 3 sub assemblies. 1) The "Starfish." The base and doors. 2) The "Claw." The wings and engine. Dry fitted onto the guts and the starfish. 3) The "Guts." The center console and the harnesses. Very important not to glue the sub assemblies to each other for ease of painting. I build the sub assemblies really tight so they friction together. That way, I can take the claw off and easily take out the guts with a little twist and reattach the claw to have it represent a dreadnought drop pod.

‘2008 was a good year’ 💀

My brother used to help me with a lot of model painting. He was never into playing 40k but he grew up on Airfix kits and loved painting especially vehicles. This was absolutely his bag. We never had a drop pod but he would have primed and painted this guy in pieces, then assembled fully painted components and done final touchup with a brush and add patina with airbrush etc. but yeah absolutely with these kinds of kits, pre-paint most of the components before you try to assemble. Im looking at the almost assembled center section with harnesses there thinking what an absolute nightmare that must be to paint. Bless my brother, he now uses CAD software to design model aeroplane kits for very obscure nerdy planes and 3d prints them. If he'd ever fully got into The Hobby he'd have been a savage.

Last time I was this early the drop pod was new!

Honestly a drop pod would be a pretty interesting inclusion for kill teams they'd need to greatly reduce the amount of marines you get, but it would be pretty cool to have an offical scenarios where the drop pod comes down inside the middle of a board, beyond that I would say that extreme rust doesn't really work for me, drop pods can get damaged but the mechanicus have such a religious view of technology I have a hard time believing they have time to give oil blessings to launch the pod, but they can't spare some fresh paint for it, space marine battle damage unless the vehicle is supposed to be long dead should stick with freshly damaged, as it really doesn't make narrative sense that there equipment isn't taken care of, particularly when you look at droppods, which are vehicles that will spend the most time out of any of them inside there vessels able to be worked on

"nobodys gluin those doors shut" Me, a dread claw converter, doing a sniff.

For the lovers of grimdark like me, that is definitely not too much weathering.

Oh cool. I am half way through my first ever drop pod at the moment. It's the most effort for a 70pt model ever lol

had a work colleague that built one of these. The middle "radar" like table. He painted in such a way that it actually looked like a live green radar screen. Looked awesome.

my favourite drop pod models come in a 6-pack and double up as mid and post-game refreshment

The highlight of my teenage hobby years, perfectly building a drop pod that still holds up more than 12 years later!

Built this 3 weeks ago and yeah, it was a pain to build

Besides loving the content (as usual), I appreciate the Pulp Fiction reference in the end. "Which one's yours?" said Ringo to Grimaldus, trying to identify the correct Crozius from his bag. "It's the one that said bad motherf*cker on it."

Made that look amazing! Narration and story working with your videos is getting amazingly good! Always gives me a big smile to watch :)

Love your drop pod! I wish the imperial guard had drop pods, imagine the kasrkin acting like HALO’s ODST. Dropping all over 10 man squads behind enemy lines. I wonder if you could make that work in an army list. Can’t wait till the next video!

I remember mass producing a bunch of drop pods during one years' super bowl. It is a bear of a kit, but looks and feels so cool when it's done. I've done up 9 of them and 2 dreadnought pods XD (used to be the dread could just ride in the normal pod grumble grumble). It's fun to see newer folks discovering these older units that have been so iconic! Fleet based chapter orbital strikes forever!

Thanks for the video. I never purchased one of these, back in 3rd edition there was no model but there was a rule that simulates them in the book. If your army consisted of only infantry and dreadnoughts you could put your whole army in reserves and deploy them using the big blast template and scatter dice.

Excited to see how the new terrain gets painted up in a future video!

Love the videos man! I think that a good way to get people hyped about your custum terrain stls would be to do a battle report video playing with some you painted. The goblin tunnels would be a great place for a templar vs tyranid match

i don't feel like i experience long dry times with the Tamiya Extra Thin Cement Glue, it seems like most things stick right away and don't move again for me. I've never been a big fan of superglue on plastic models, but your work is very good so i'd never suggest you to change what you're doing. It clearly works for you. Great build, i've always thought drop pods were kinda cool but i'm not a Space Marine collector / player.

My first Imperium army was Blood Angels when they got their 7th ed codex, and I've never been good at the game I just build models that look neat. I remember buying 2 of these and hated assembling them. I was newer to hobbying so I didn't sand shit like you did, but man was it so satisfying just plunking one down in the middle of a battle field. I still remember doing a chaotic as heck 3 way battle with friends where they dropped down in the middle of the IG artillery that was winning the match til then and just unleashing hell with the Melta. One of the drop pods broke in a move and is now just a really cool terrain piece I use. I'll never recommend anyone build the model but I love seeing them.

Good video. Built correctly the doors should lock nicely. I built mine with one wing and "seat" magnetised, and base with doors coming off completely so I can disassemble for ease of transport (4L RUBox)

Looking good. I have thought about one of these for terrain. 😊

Love your vids and energy! I don't even play tabletop gaming or paint haha your vids are just so engaging and fun while I work.

I think your weathering is spot on. These things, when deployed on the field, have just gone through atmospheric re-entry. They will be scorched, burned, tore up and beaten to heck and back by 1000’s of degrees of heat and atmosphere. As a reference, I use pictures of the Apollo command module just after re-entry when painting things like this. For added flavor, you can add some black/grey charring effects to the bottom where both the atmo and retro’s have scorched the bottom.

I hade 5 of these at one time. Loved them.

The amount of chipping is perfect and the overall finished look is really good. One thing though now that I see it completed: All the chipping and metal brushing should have been done with strokes from bottom to top the create the effect of the pod going through debris feet first. ♥

I've literally got one of these in the post. Great timing!

Bought mine too for the first time. Thanks for sharing in the experience.

nice one, weathering is on point

i remember that first video, back when you were doing bases. loved those vids hahah

First time assembly everything goes on subsequent squads get less and less combatknives and pouches as the fun of extra painting steps wears of

Awesome paint-job!

I agree there are usually many things you want to get before the drop pod, so that's why I bought it for a friend as a gift so now he has one.

Dude I love the way you talk about why you painted it the way you did! It definitely makes sense for it to look this dirty, I think it turned out awesome

Wow, that end result is looking amazingly industialy gritty!

Dude, honestly i love watching your videos sooo much.

Yeah, I remember this being a pain in the ass. Some of it is an unavoidable consequnce of the drop pods pentagon design, but my guess is that stuff like the difficult sprue connections and overly tight fitting parts was likely a product of the early days of GW CAD. I also remember plastics of this era being noticably harder than earlier kits, so until you got used to that there could be mishaps. Im pretty sure the first actual drop pod kit I built I just rubber banded like mad until it dried and everything mostly kept itself lined up properly, except for one door that was a little wonky, but it just required a little extra nudge to click into place when I closed it.

I think you did an amazing job on the weathering, in fact, I'd have love to see heat striations on the bottom half of the heat shield it may take coming into the atmosphere.

Helldiver's inbound. Prepare for hell dive

I have four for my Space Wolves. Always cool to have them raining down onto the table and having a bunch of guys spill out of them all over the table.

I built 2 of these for my ultramarines. I agree they're tough to build right on the first go. However, I did paint the inside parts up before closing it up. I used mini magnets to hold the doors closed.

I've got a pod in my backlog and I love the chipping effect. I think I'm going to try it out asap! :)

I like how he felt the need to blur it the box in the thumbnail as if any vehicle in warhammer looks remotely like that sillhoette.

I built and hand painted 3 of these in 2012 with my first army (Crimson Fists). I dont recall them being that hard, i know i left out the harnesses in the last 2. One was for a metla dreadnought, the other two for combi-melta sternguard and Pedro Kantor

the drop pod is actually genius. It's an absolutely fantastic practise model for painting vehicles. It's got plenty of detail while not being overwhelming, it's got tons of big open surfaces for various weathering effects and to practise using water slide decals if you so choose, and it's probably not gonna be your most treasured model, so messing up isn't the end of the world.

Ah the drop pod. The classic way to send a space marine into the thick of it. Those doors look like such a pain in the bum to work with.

I have never heard of Chipping Medium before, but it's something I'm going to be looking into now in order to make my Orks look better

Look forward to doing this kit. Creating narrative campaign for Kill Team. kitbashing poxwalkers into arbitis for corrupted cops. As nurgle chaos gate opens in a hive city. 2 kill teams drop pod into the city to try and save it.

"Chonk in the Bonk as the cool kids say" Never heard anybody ever say that. Even the cool kids.

Man that was so cool! The tecnique is called reverse washing or something like that, right? I've seen it used in the past with laquers, for gunpla painting

I might do what I always wanted to do and have a drop pod army. I never picked up any since they didn't carry primaris marines in the beginning

The drop pod was one of my first models and had really no issues with it, the doors even closed properly without issue for me

I love the pulp fiction reference at the end 😊

i remember when i masked up all the wing sections so i can spray them :D it was such a long task

I own 2 drop pods for my Dark Angels army. The building process was.... tumultuous at best. I've never been so relieved to have finally been able to align those doors and get them to close properly.

Ah yes, my 40K version of a ‘Nam flashback in video form. Thanks Jay, thanks for opening up old wounds….

My has two of these that he brought when they were released. Man nothing beat two squads of SMs popping out right where you don’t want them.

As an Iron Fist player, I used to love those drop pots in 9th.

I've built and used a few drop pods in my time and I've found over time the plastic expanded and the doors wouldn't hold up on their own after about 6 months so magnetising became necessary but hope yours holds out. I suppose the Australian hot weather didn't help much though.

I straight-up snipped off the seatbelt to wing connections, then glued all the wings to the propeller thing before just fitting it to the petal. The doors were much better off that way I found.

I enjoyed your video, thank you for that. What kind of grey are you using for your Black Templar base? You mentioned it in the video, but didn't tell us the name.

"I play Black Templar, the close-combat focused Space Marines." Sanguinius: "Am I a joke to you?" (Great vid!)

For CQB Drop pods are essentials. It will allow you absolutely WREK Taus and Aeldari.

9:00 yeah about that, maybe paint it from the bottom around to edge with the black/purple/blue shade, you know, when metal gets high temperature this dark rainbow appears :>

Heyyyyy, I just got my drop pod a week or two ago too! Was gonna make it light up and everything too

I recently built mine. The only problem i had with it was that the 3rd sprue was a slightly lower quality plastic, but it was pretty fun to build

I really enjoyed building my drop pod, enough that I bought a couple more to make a drop pod list. Maybe I just like fussy kits. Good amount of weathering, not sure about weathering to a rust colour, but hey its your model and it looks great regardless.

If you think that was a pain to build, do one of the original Forgeworld kits! I have both the Marine pod and the Dread pod with a Deathstorm waiting to be built. A lot of trimming and hole filling, parts to be re-aligned, all the fun stuff from forge world kits!! Being a collector/painter only, (only ever played 1 game) I'm glad to have them but would never do another, though I will have to have a go at the plastic version at some time.

the weathering is dope

Definitely wanna try the chipping effect on my imperial fist drop pod

The drop pod is right up there with the land speeder in terms of frustration.

Just finished it Last Weekend! Haha, super nice model witch can also be used as Terrain, I Like it

This one is a mild pain. You want serious inkiry? The origonal Sisters Exorcist. With the metal parts badly molded.

This is great to see why to get one to drop in flamers

super glue often times seems to fail after a while for some reason. A combo works with super glue to set it quickly and plastic glue for long term strength.

Want to add them to my collection too, but I think I’m more into bringing a storm Raven, now that all the Primaris Dreadnoughts can be transported from that

I’ve always thought it was the landspeeder cause I hated making those. In a game one time i had a landspeeder die so I rolled to see if it exploded it didn’t so I went to pick it up and all the pressure and stress that was held together by cheap glue gave out and it quite literally exploded. My opponent and I agreed whatever got hit got killed or injured and we kept the remaining pieces as a permanent decoration on the board.

My Heresy Nightlords are using the drop pod assault right of war.. I need so many drop pods..

I have just started mine, and it really is a nightmare.... the doors do go up and down just fine, but scrape up the paint on the floors.

Man, I did not have that much trouble with mine... I've also heard that they are tough, so maybe I was just extra careful.

i hear people talking about nightmare kits. meanwhile i was stuck on the heavy stubber on the repulsor for about an hour.

5:05 Junk in the Trunk

Too much weathering? It fell from orbit!

I bought a second-hand army for real cheap, the guy had been trying to build a Dark Angels army but gave up. The lot contained 2 Stormravens, 3 Landraiders and 10… yes TEN droppods, among everything else.

Perfect amount of weathering

Looks good but could have used some burn marks from the base upwards to make it seems like it's been through the atmosphere a few times. The way it looks now just makes it seem like it's been sitting on a battlefield for ages but never used.

It doesn't require magnets to to keep the doors closed, but it does take the wings to be perfectly aligned to allow friction to keep the doors closed. I was able to get one of the 5 I built over the years that didn't need magnets.

You joined the Drop Pod club. It's a pain to build indeed 😂

Drop pod + Internus Marines = total destruction. Love this combo, might steal the idea lol

Hey just a question but what is the name of that bottle with a brush that you use for glue

I play orks but I’m thinking about eventually getting one of these and painting it with some salamander space marines for room decor

Get a scratch brush from a hobby supply store, gsw has some, and that you can change between nylon and silicone brissles in the one brush, you can even get some brass brissles for sculpting

So far for me, most frustrating to build conventionally as in no Magnets, just what's in the Box and citadel glue - is the wraithknight

Drop pods are cool, and I really like this paint job. But, I will say this about DP in general. First off, the tolerances are so tight that a layer of paint will keep it from properly closing. My best DP was the one where I shaved down the doors first. You just scrape a thin layer of plastic from the bit of the door the will touch the frame. You actually need to scrape off quite a bit. Then you can drill a hole in the side of the door, and one in the frame and pop in little magnets. This will keep the doors closed nicely, but not too strongly. Also, I like to leave out all the interior stuff, except the weapon. As far as I'm concerned, the Space Marines just use magnet boots and ride down like men. Also, that harness thing in the middle means they cant all pour out in one direction if they need to.

"MOST frustrating.." *Laughs looking at wonky StormEagle on shelf*

Ghost ark or any necron model for that matter. Years Ago I built a ghost ark and when it was done I didn’t build anything for months.