Legion Dreadnought Drop Pod

The Dreadnought Drop Pod, officially the Lucius Pattern Dreadnought Drop Pod, also known as the Lucius Pattern Heavy Drop Pod, is a specialised variant of the common Drop Pod used by the Adeptus Astartes for planetary assaults. A Drop Pod is a one-way, sealed, armoured landing craft that is launched from an orbiting voidship onto the planet below. The Drop Pod plummets through the planet's atmosphere at meteoric speeds, firing powerful retro-rockets just before touchdown to rapidly slow its descent. Having made what is little more than a controlled crash landing, explosive bolts are released and the armoured doors of the pod open, allowing the enclosed Space Marines to deploy.

The Dreadnought Drop Pod is a larger variant of the standard Drop Pod, featuring more powerful thrusters and retro-rockets. Where internal seating and harnesses are found in the infantry pods, a Dreadnought Pod is empty, and the five outer ramps are replaced with three larger ones. The internal space of the pod is wholly dedicated to transporting a single Space Marine Dreadnought, of any type or pattern, and the design of the craft allows for the Dreadnought to be transported to the battlefield with the minimum of delay. The intense stresses caused by the Dreadnought Drop Pod's larger engines and -free interior space are such that only the highly armoured shell of a Dreadnought could hope to survive the descent to the ground without being pulverised on impact.

As with the regular Legion Drop Pod, I'd been struggling to find an appropriately epic-scaled pod with the doors open. Closed pods are ample, but having a closed pod deployed on the battlefield just seems so odd. Oh so you went careening down to the earth, doors explosively blast open to allow the mechanical man inside to haul his way out directly onto the battlefield, but no no, wait, no killing until you delicately close the doors first. The quartermaster wants this back nice and neat after the battle.

Because I haven't seen any epic-scale dread pods open - it's only been the standard 28mm versions - I've been lazy and just taken a full size and scaled it down. That means it is going to be highly detailed for something so small, but honestly I'm too lazy to start one again from scratch.

I will have to apologise to the original creator - I know I picked up the original files free from somewhere, but they've been hiding on an external drive for long enough that I can't track back to where I ed them. If anyone knows (or wants to claim) soverignty, just let me know.