Orbital Drop Pod / Infantry Drop Pod Warhammer 40K

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Single seat infantry drop pod, inspired by the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers drop pod from Halo. Two components, drop pod shell (PT1) and drop pod door (PT2), do not require supports. IMPORTANT: When slicing lower the DRO-POD Shell (PT1) on the buildplate by 2mm (Z axis -2mm). Then print with a wide raft (10-15mm). Covertly deliver specialised kill teams to a planet's surface from orbit or drop heavy infantry into the heart of battle. These would be good narrative props for kill team boards. The interior of the pod has bits of detail such as levers, a medi-pack and various MacGuffins. I will sort all of my meshes so that there is no non-manifold or loose geometry etc. However, that will not be today. I sliced in Cura and printed using an Ender 3. The DRO-POD SHELL (PT1) was printed with Cura's Standard Quality profile settings and the DRO-POD DOOR (PT2) was printed with Cura's Dynamic Quality profile settings. When printing the DRO-POD SHELL (PT1), I lowered it by 2mm (-2mm on the Z axis). A 15mm raft was used. Without this, the part tends to pop off the build plate just as the print is getting to the end (and man is it annoying when its at the 95% mark and then you end up missing the top of your print). This is still a sort of work in progress. I am reasonably happy with the drop pod shell but the door needs some work still. I'm pretty happy with this one, mostly just because I think it's a cool idea. If you print it or get any use out of it on the tabletop, would love to hear about it. Other designs are documented on Instagram and are slowly being uploaded to Thingiverse. https://www.instagram.com/parallelsoup/