Drop Pod progress is moving along at a nice pace. I basecoated the metal areas with Leadbelcher (using my airbrush), then I washed all the areas with Agrax Earthshade. After that I drybrushed with Ironbreaker. I followed this up with a thinned Nuln Oil Black Wash and the final step was a light dry brush of Runefang. After the jump, I need your help with ah drop pod question.
So this is the problem, my drop pod won’t actually close! Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a fix? Thanks.
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Yes, this. Had the very same problem this morning. Just scraped the mound lines of the very bottom of the doors where they meet the floor and now they close fine.
Having built a bunch of these (building 7 more right now for an Imperial Fist army) this guy had the best tutorial I ever found. I use this to build and paint all of mine. It is a bit more initial work but well worth it in my opinion.
http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2011/05/definitive-guide-to-building-and.html
Having built a bunch of these (building 7 more right now for an Imperial Fist army) this guy had the best tutorial I ever found. I use this to build and paint all of mine. It is a bit more initial work but well worth it in my opinion.
http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2011/05/definitive-guide-to-building-and.html
Looking at post one, it looks like you glued the square spacers onto the engine, as lordnurgle said unless they are squared to the rest of the model it will cause a twist on the fins and make the door spaces out of true and so the doors wont fit right. Its one of the few times the suggested assembly steps in the manual should be followed. As for fixing it can only suggest painting a thin coat onto the edges of the doors and pushing the door into location whilst its still wet, the paint should transfer to the points that are preventing easy closure and give you a guide to file down, repeat until no paint is transfered when closing the door, then move onto the next one. you may find doing that the doors flop open very easily so magnetising them would be a good idea. The other option is to just treat it as a doors open drop pod, with the way it is fine for storage and transport, and just go to town painting the central console and detailing the interior….
I have always had trouble as well putting these together and getting them to close. Thanks for the tips. Geoff
After putting together a dozen drop pods I found the key is in the engine construction. Those panels need to be straight and centered on their party of the engine when glued on. After you get the first panel on you use a fin as a spacer for the rest of the panels. Hope that makes sense, typing on my phone
I know where your coming from as I just put three together with a friend. Two out of three had the same problem. I think we are going to magnatize them.
use the two thumbs to press on the door part where is meets the center platform, you should be able to hear a click sound.
From some other tutorials and my own efforts, I think filing the bottom of the doors to create a bit more clearance between the floor and bottom of the doors is a fix. Annoying to have to do, but drop pod assembly is kind of annoying anyway.
This is what I always do with my and it works perfectly. Doors close and stay closed. There's spots on the door itself on either side of the hinge that make a sort of V shape when viewed from the side. File that down a bit.
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Hi buddy, it's about the assembly. When you assemble a drop pod you have to push all the doors in a 'click them' while the bond isn't fully dry so that the natural state of the doors is closed. As much as i hate to promote a bols guy, Rob Baer did a great little video about assembling a drop pod pn his spikey bits channel