Please help me identifiy this drop pod

[tuo]

Hello all,

I just stumbled over this caption context-pic:

http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2014/05/wargames-gallery-5-30-14.html

What droppods are those? They look like a cross between the original Dreadclaw and the new Dreadclaw.

Is this a conversion kit from a third party company?

best regards

Ulrik

[templar143]

pretty sure it's this guy. http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/The_Horus_Heresy/Legiones_Astartes/Legion_Vehicles/LEGION_KHARYBDIS_ASSAULT_CLAW.html

[interrogator_chaplain]

It looks like someone's modified a Dreadnought Drop Pod from Forge World with what looks like Helldrake bits, or the front vanes from a Hellblade Fighter also from Forge World.

[Blood Shadow]

They look like Dread Claws

[tuo]

They are neither the old Dreadclaws, nor the current and also not the Karybdis. The Karybdis is much larger, and the top of the current dreadclaw looks completely different. I have all three sitting in front of me, neither fits.

But the more I look at them, the more I get the feeling that the added parts stem from the original Dreadclaw kit (maybe recast?).
The spikes on top are the landing spikes/struts, and the struts with the air outlet are what goes on the top of the original Dreadclaw.

Either somebody really hacked up five Dreadclaws for this, or recast the parts, or this is from some Forge World Diorama and they used the parts left after the Dreadclaw was removed from the shop.

For reference:

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120916153921/warhammer40k/images/b/b7/Dreadclaw01.png

best regards

Ulrik

[Jay Lindsay Anderson]

They look like Dread Claws
aren't dread claws the chaos equivalent to drop pods?

[tuo]

aren't dread claws the chaos equivalent to drop pods?

They used to be that, but have been retconned to be a smaller version of the Karybdis Droppod during/before the Horus Heresy.

Original Dreadclaw (Chaos only, no longer available)

http://images.wikia.com/warhammer40k/images/archive/b/b8/20120710074334!Dreadclaw.jpg

"New" Dreadclaw (smaller Karybdis):

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/The_Horus_Heresy/Legiones_Astartes/Legion_Vehicles/ANVILLUS_PATTERN_DREADCLAW_DROP_POD.html

best regards

Ulrik