They published articles (like this one) to inspire you to create your own.
I know now that creating your own stuff has fallen out of favor with players of 40k (and with GW -- I wonder why?) but it hasn't fallen out of favor with me!
In a couple of weeks, my grandson Matt and I will be teaming up to play in a 40k battle against his dad! I will be bringing my Land Raiders (one old and one new) to bear in that battle, but I wanted to try to bring a squad of Landspeeders.
In the past, I've played with a speeder, but I've always used only one. They are fairly fragile --
-- with armor of 10, so one doesn't last very long...
That's OU812... I've had him for 20 years, believe it or not...
I would LOVE to be able to buy three of these...
They are sooooo cool!
... BUT I want to see how they play FIRST!
To that end, I went down to my local Dollar Store and I bought 3 travel sized sticks of deodorant and a bag of ballpoint pens. Total $4.
I went to Hobby Lobby and I bought some small plastic champagne glasses. 24 for $3.
I dug in my cabinet for some plastic spoons -- I'll call that free.
I also busted out some electrical connectors that I used for rocket launchers on my drop pods (I made these out of foam core...)
So, I drilled and painted and mounted them on the bases of the little cups. I magnetized the rocket pods so I can take them off, if they get destroyed OR if I need to shave points (+40 each).
Here they are. They aren't fantastic, but they are serviceable and I will get a chance to play with three 'speeders in a couple of weeks.
They actually look a bit better in person than in this photo...
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I remember seeing that article! I never made one myself, but I remember a local game store selling 1:144 model jets for the purpose of sticking the wings and missiles onto an old deodorant container to make your own landspeeder.
Your drop pods look really good, Jim!
I don't think that scratch building has fallen out of favour with players - lots of people I play with still love to do it, but GW certainly doesn't encourage it anymore. Remember when there were lots of 'how to' articles in White Dwarf? Nowadays, their so-called hobby articles are all about how to assemble plastic GW terrain kits.
@Desert Scribe -- What a cool store to have stocked those... I'm gonna have to go to my local store and look for 144 scale planes... :)
@Sean -- Thanks for the drop pod compliment! A few of my friends tinker with DIY. GW prohibits it, I think, in tournaments. Or maybe its just the FLGS with 40k tables...
I had to dig out my White Dwarfs today, just to reminisce... #95 has the "Grav-Attack" deodorant tank. :) Good times.
Haaaa, this is awesome. Speedstick landspeeders. I remember these. At the time they were cutting edge, handbuilding was a sign of elite status. Now, its frowned upon, very low class. Apart from GWs stand, I think players like to pull out the "big guns" and flash store bought vehicles like status symbols.
OU812 looks good! So do the drop pods.
If I ever get around to organizing my armies, I'd love to throw down with you guys. I've got two old school armies; beakie marines and footslogging eldar.
@Thanatos -- We're playing on the 28th. I'm committed to play vs. Brian and Matthew, but my other friends are ripe for the picking! See you Weds!
Extremely cool article--and builds Jim. For the life of me, I can't imagine why something like this would be "frowned upon" these days, especially with the growing Maker and craft culture going on.
If I had it my way, I'd have a scratch-built armada!
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