Description
Unleash Airborne Pestilence with the Foetid Bloat-drone
The greatest tactical obstacle every Death Guard commander faces is movement speed. While your Plague Marines and Terminator deathstars advance steadily at an inexorable pace, agile enemy skirmishers and long-range gunlines can slip away, exploit firing lanes, and out-score you across the primary mission objectives. The Foetid Bloat-drone solves this battlefield bottleneck instantly.
Propelled by humming, foul-smelling turbine turbines and possessed by an aggressive warp entity, this medium-sized Daemon Engine glides effortlessly over fortifications, cratered ruins, and defensive barricades. It acts as the vanguard harasser of your plague fleet, pinning the opponent in place while your heavy armor rolls forward.
Core Battlefield Roles & Devastating Capabilities
1. Lethal Anti-Screen Auto-Hits (Dual Plaguespitters)
Equipped with a paired set of plaguespitters, the Bloat-drone becomes the ultimate anti-infantry clearing platform. Because these corrosive spray weapons automatically hit their target, you bypass negative ballistic modifiers, weather defensive stealth skills, and deliver devastating Overwatch salvos whenever the enemy dares to counter-charge.
2. Vicious Armor-Cracking Assaults (The Flesh-Mower)
Transform your airborne hunter into a terrifying close-quarters buzzsaw by outfitting it with the massive flesh-mower. This weapon multiplies the drone’s melee output into a blender of high-strength, armor-cleaving attacks, allowing the drone to solo-charge entrenched light vehicles, heavy infantry, and monster units without getting pinned down.
3. Grotesque Modeling Customization & Detail
Nurgle’s blessings take many horrific forms, and this multi-part plastic kit allows you to customize your engine’s appearance to match your warband’s aesthetic:
- Three Interchangeable Carapace Fronts: Choose between an ancient, rusted Ironclad faceplate, an embossed plate carrying the tri-skull sigil of Nurgle, or a sickening visage of diseased, stitched-together skin.
- Bio-Mechanical Sculpting: Features exposed internal organs, bulging tumorous cysts, dangling pustule-ridden cabling, and pitted armor exhausts.
- Flexible Mounting: Includes a clear flying stem and specialized bracket to pose the drone in banked turns or level cruise.
Technical Specifications & Kit Details
- Miniature Type: Multi-part plastic vehicle / Daemon Engine kit
- Faction: Death Guard (Chaos Space Marines)
- Game System: Warhammer 40,000
- Unit Battlefield Role: Fast Attack / Harasser
- Component Count: 44 precision plastic components
- Weapon Armament Included: 2x Plaguespitters, 1x Flesh-mower, 1x Heavy Blight Launcher
- Base Included: 1x Citadel 60mm Round Base with clear acrylic flying stem
- Material: High-impact styrene plastic
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this kit include all weapon options or just the default plaguespitters?
This full multi-part retail kit includes all three primary wargear configurations: the paired plaguespitters, the heavy blight launcher, and the fearsome flesh-mower. (Unlike the monopose version found in older starter sets, this kit gives you every bit needed to choose your build.)
Can the weapon arms be magnetized easily?
Yes. The weapon mounts on both sides of the hull and the underside turbine sockets have flat connection points that readily accommodate 3mm x 1mm or 3mm x 2mm rare-earth magnets, allowing you to swap between ranged and melee loadouts between games.
What paints work best for detailing the rotten flesh and rusted metal?
We recommend basecoating the hull with sickly green or bone tones, followed by heavy applications of shade washes such as Agrax Earthshade or Mortarion Grime. Technical paints like Typhus Corrosion, Ryza Rust, and Nurgle’s Rot bring out the weeping blisters and decayed armor trims to museum standard.
Overrun enemy defensive perimeters and claim the battlefield for Grandfather Nurgle. Add the Foetid Bloat-drone to your warband today to take total control of the skies!
