Alien Vs Predator Unboxing: UD-4L Cheyenne Dropship
September 20, 2016 by dignity
Justin and John have a surprise in the mail for this unboxing, it's the UD-4L Cheyenne Dropship from Prodos Games for Alien Vs Predator.
"One of the most famous vehicles from "Alien" universe is Cheyenne Dropship from "Aliens" movie. Huge and bulky, yet versatile and agile - Dropship is prime example why USCM Marines are force to reckon with.
Armed with heavy weaponry capable of removing any kind of a threat on the ground is a must have for every Marines squad when dealing with all kind of threats - including extraterrestrial ones."
The ship itself is huge, and the box it's shipped in is beautiful. Perhaps just the right size for a few beers in your games.
Get your comments in as we're giving one of these away, make sure to comment with your best idea for a scenario in Alien Vs Predator in which you would feature the Cheyenne Dropship!
We're in love with the build and we'd love to see some amazing freehand paints on the sides along with some shark teeth on the front.
What would you paint on the sides of the ship?
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I’d probably want to paint. “Where’s the rest of my Kickstarter..? ” But I’ve pretty much given up on ever seeing that.
Same here, and once more Prodos are silent on progress/updates (last one was June 22nd)
Their plumping a lot of resource into archon to get the LOAD Kickstarter out on time By the looks of it.
Does Anyone with access to the members only Facebook group have any news on approval for the rest of the Kickstarter? Or does BOW?
I’m a member of the FB group Joe, and no, as I said above, nothing since June 22nd when they were telling us how shiny the dropship is…
Ta @OllieP I’ve sent them an email, I’ll put their response up in the forum if I get one
Wonder if there is a fraud issue here. I mean it’s one thing not to fund in the first place but this…… I’ve heard many things about Prodos, none really good. Kinda wish BOW would stop promoting them until they do right by the community BOW actually makes this very content for.
Good scenario would be, the dropship is loaded with the stock of everyone’s late kickstarters… The ship has had a malfunction, so they are doing their best to fix it before it gets swarmed by aliens… Oh balls, we already know how it ended…
Same here, only got part of my wave 2, nothing from wave 3. Lost all hope of ever getting the rest of wave 2 and 3.
Just think shy-anne and you will be pronouncing it correctly. One of the best resin casts I have ever seen. Way too many cliched mission ideas for me. I would just love modeling that uber resin collection.
that looks gorgeous, still watching as I type and it gets better and better
Bug out mission, call in the dropship and on 3, 4 or 6 it gets hijacked by xenomorph and wipes out on you.
I agree wholeheartedly with @grumbleback . All my ideas will have been thought of and used in a lot of my favourite movies, nothing original from me i’m afraid.
I simply want one to build being a massive fan of the movie.
That does look sweet. Oddly I watched Star Trek 2 Wrath of Khan last night and I hadn’t realised how much James Horner who did the soundtrack for both ripped off the Star Trek soundtrack and stuck it in Aliens.
Why have just one Drop Ship ? how about a hanger full of them ? All getting ready to leave the Landing bays when BOOM there’s a hanger bay door ripped from its hinges. Get to your ships before you end up dead 🙂 ( yes ive got a mini film running in my head now )
Wow amazing!!! Can’t believe they made it at 28mm/32 scale lol
Lovely kit. I posted this on Facebook, so here it is being re-posted here. Proposed scenario: A small squad of marines need to secure the drop ship until the armored transport arrives for evac. Preds have the objective to cross the board before the marines and transport can be loaded onto the drop ship and take out the flyer, while the alienmorphs are wanting to cross the play area before the other two teams so they can have a xeno stowaway placed onboard the ship to infest the mother ship. The three squads start equal distance from the ship.
I’m imagining a scenario in which, obviously, Colonial marines are trying to extract from a hot zone by reaching a Cheyenne dropship. This, however, come with a pair of twists. The first is that the Marines are attempting to extract a specific ViP (an implanted civilian, wanted by Wayland-Yutani for urgent “medical” treatment and definitely nothing more sinister) at the cost of “expendable” military assets (the afore mentioned marines) as waves of Aliens, or a cadre of Predators close in. Secondly, the Cheyenne dropship isn’t a stationary objective! The zone is so hot, the time frame for pickup so limited… Read more »
Argh need it. Does anyone know if the APC will be coming as a model as well?
Only thing I can think of doing with it right now is
“Take off and nuke the site from orbit” 😉
That’s the one I was going to use
Game over man game over
you could have the dropship as a mission goal, the marines are fighting a retreat to the dropship trying to catch a rogue synthetic who has alien infested bodies in cryo tubes intent on getting them back to earth and leaving all evidence behind. if the synthetic manages to get to the ship first and roll say a six he succeeds in activating weapon systems with the result of random discharge the subsequent turn on a roll of five plus he gains control of flight systems and is off mission won. meanwhile the marines have to fight a retreat across… Read more »
uu mission to grab queen would be fantastic!
Amazing kit a sci fie wet dream right there. Imagine spending £150 on it then smashing it up to have it a crashed wreck as in the film. Maybe if you drop it by accident that would be an idea
I would want to mount it on a large flight stand (would need something sturdy for all that weight I’m sure), and have a scenario where you can call in strafing runs with it. Of course somehow building it so you can swap it into a landed mode for pickups would be awesome to.
One sexy piece of resin, it is models like that that make me reconsider my decisions. In this case, expanding on my starter box. Those models were very enjoyable to paint, can imagine the joy that would be. As for missions, finding space in one of my display cases might be the most difficult. For games though, would love to see a mission where an alien being captive inside the ship, inevitably breaks out, growing into a queen in the process. The marines mission is to reach the ship and destroy it. The issue being, aliens keep being spawned, so… Read more »
Some kind of get to the Dropship scenario.
I’d also like to do a flying scenario where the dropship has to escape some kind of flying alien swarm and the turn on which it escapes the board is the turn it arrives to rescue the marines in the following game. If it doesn’t manage to escape the marines need to find a much harder way of rescue.
So….. much…… need! Glad I have mine on Pre-order. Nearly got all of my KS stuff now as well so expect AVP posts from me in the near future.
Scenario:
A Wayland Yutani VIP (impregnated) is attempting to evac a colony with a body guard of WY commandos. On the other side of the colony is the Marine dropship lying prone on a landing pad guarded by a squad. The VIP has to evac avoiding marauding Aliens (who could go after the prone dropship as well as or instead of the VIP) and rampaging Predators who are there just for the glory.
alternatively the marines could have been called in to rescue the Miss universe contestants who have crash landed one of which was waylands daughter. Females of such Genetic purity that any marine would die to save their virginity…..well lets face it on a planet infested with aliens its only a matter of time until their F*&^%$D.
the marines would have to protect the group through hostile territory to get to the ship for immediate dust off, but perhaps they find the pilots slaughtered and a queen standing on the loading ramp for that last epic battle before they limp to safety
Awesome miniature and nice box. For missions well you would have your standard hold out until the Dropship arrives missions, or you could put the Dropship an some Marien units on the middle of the table and have them protect from the Aliens it while the rest of your forces comes in from a table side and must get to the Dropship to evacuate via the Dropship while beeing chased by Aliens. Or you could have a Predator prisoner that is brought to the Dropship and the Predator Player can now try to stop the guys transporting the prisoner to… Read more »
Wow… this model pretty much nails it… a vast improvement upon the FUBAR chibi style monstrostity, that was previewed some months agao.
I would consult my Colonial Marines Technical Manual and come up with some nice nose art and pin-up 🙂
Scenario:
Group of Colonial Marines is singeld out as prey for a Predator ceremony… drop ship is berthed somewhere as incentive to male the hunt a little bit more interesting. Different predators attack the heroes along the way… the predalien is stowed inside the dropship an released as soon as the heroes come close enough.
As an avid reader of the old avp comics, and alien and predator comics respectively I’d have to say I’d do the predhunter arc scenarios where a grounp of bandasses funded by an eccentric millionaire and armed with predtech turn the great hunt on the great hunters. And never forget the first rule of alien encounters, nuke the site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure!
As much as I bitch about how useless Prodos is. I’m ridiculously into Aliens in a big way so as loath as I am to giving them any more money I’m torn about getting one of these.
the scenario obviously has to be called ” get to the chopper” (said with your best Arnie impression) and it is a extraction mission! A fallen pred has set its self destruction countdown on his wrist computer. The marines have extract to the “chopper” whilst defending themselves from escaping xenos and honour bound pred that wish to die by the hunt.
As always awesome video, Totally love this mode have always wanted one ever since I’ve seen the movie.
That model is so awesome! I would make a scenario using 3 small maps/complexes each with a objective for the Marines. The dropship would have to first drop small teams at each and then return to pick up the units after they retrieve the objective and also funnel in reserves and units from one board to another depending on resistance and also provide support to clear LZ’s. The MArines would win if they secure all 3 objectives but didn’t receive over a certain amount of casualties. The Predator has to retrieve one objective that the marines are also after while… Read more »