"Khurasan releases CORMORANT Federal Medium Lander" Topic

Our store's back up and offering a new model, the Cormorant Medium Lander.

This craft is used to insert several squads of infantry directly into the battle zone -- even directly into combat -- due to its heavy armour and powerful defensive armament.

Powered by direct thrust (including a suite of VTOL thrusters) the Cormorant can move troops from the fleet in orbit to the planetary surface, and can also retrieve them for return to the fleet.

An unarmed version, the Heron yacht, is also used as a intrafleet transport by the navy and is widely used in non-military government service, as well as by private owners. Parts are included to make the Heron as well as the Cormorant.

The Cormorant/Heron has a transport pod attached to its underside, and this is a nice little model all its own, as seen here. Although the pod is not meant to be left on the surface by the lander, it can be jettisoned if the lander is damaged or destroyed, and you should be able to easily use it separately if you wish.

I think Charles Oines has done a great job on this design and dwartist has done his usual brilliant paintup (his model has some panel lines painted on the front but the model is provided as shown in these images).

Available now at the link below, cheers for looking:
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SWEET! Now I have more stuff to put on the to buy list… Thanks for bringing this one out.

sweet model

The Heron/Transport Pod would make a good exploration vessel.

Form a main base on an unexplored planet and have a Heron fly a Pod out to a distant location. It would drop the pod, with attendant scientists and a security detail, and then fly back to the main base. The Heron would then be used for recon and supply runs to other bases.

For really distant bases the Heron would stay so they could bug out in a hurry and not have to wait hours for help.

Tim

Love! Love! Love!

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

- seems like 2 parts of a ship, short in the body.
perhaps if I order 2 or 3 I can convert to something like these. Like the over all design – very Battle Star

The whole ship is there, I assure you.

Thanks for your support though.

Been waiting on this. Thanks.

For an idea of size, here's the bare resin Cormorant next to some of the Federal Army infantry who are so often its passengers:

Great model. This looks like the perfect lander for Exoplanet exploration games.

Very nice, just one question, would be at some time selling the pods separately?

Special pleading…

Can I please, please, please have that in 6mm????

Please?
JohnG

I think you'll find it already works for 6mm, platypus :)

There it is! Lovely.

Need to add this to an army list (and my shopping list).

Can I please, please, please have that in 6mm????

Yes.

This was actually originally designed to be 6mm, matter of fact.

Looks sweet.

Like War Monkey said, pods separately?

Greg
wargamedownloads.com

Maybe -- just released this though, a little early to be talking about selling its parts separately.

Ho my. Its lovely.

Forget the parts, 28MM for the win, please lol

Do like the double section model from the MircoPanzer pictures a lot – not sure about the 3 section one though

No No no NO no no no NO! and NO!!
You cant release this NOW !!
You just cant ………….

I believe he just did.

…….but … but there is the Mecha Front kickstarter running now too…..

Lovely looking model.

Well, this is something you can buy now and get now.

Hot digitty dawg!

I placed my order for it and more! Any chance the SPAR teams will get released in the next wave? I really want the Stannis assault vehicle and the Phalanx…

looking good, are there other inserts in the works???

Due to sequestering, the budget only allows for the purchase of one a year. This years had been ordered!

Brilliant, as usual!

I like this a lot! The Pods are awesome! Great paint job as well!

RebelMike
Rebelminis.com

Woohoo!!! Hopefully you don't run out of stock before my next paycheck. Been looking forward to this little birdie for a while. Pretty sweet price too.

So can we buy the pods separately?

-- just released this though, a little early to be talking about selling its parts separately.

Thanks for posting that picture with the federal infantry, dwartist -- it gives a great sense of the size of the lander.

That is a great model. Now at the top of the want list!

Pretty awesome piece of kit. Really always pushing the envelope, your large spaceships have always been some of my favorite 15mm models. I love the DLPS Light Spaceship that I have, and I'm sure this kit is just as nice.

Yh very nice piece of kit , if only you had released before i put my order in…..
Oh well, it'll have to get put on the next order :)

Jon, is that a join abaft the landing legs? IE is the body 2 pieces or a single casting?

Yes, it's a join.

Should be straight forward enough to insert a longer midsection then….

Now how long to payday…..