Product Review: The Ranger army transport by Outrider Hobbies

Hey folks,

Here I am with another product review. This time I am reviewing a new army transport, the Outrider Hobbies Ranger!  First of all, this is not a dish on other products. I do compare it to other bags, but it is for the purpose of illustrating what I feel are this bags strengths.

Now, I am uploading a whole series of videos about this bag where I talk for over half an hour showing you the ins and outs.  So I won't say too much here. Watch the vids!  But I will summarize.  First of all, the overwhelming pro feature that this has is storage space.  If you look closely at the picture, you will see two huge pockets on the front, and even bigger pockets on the sides.  There is room to store two hard cover 40k rule books, 4 codexes, two mini rule books, and all the dice, measuring tapes, rulers and pens you can fit.  Outstanding!

Now, that was enough to sell the bag for me.  When I go to GTs, I am carrying dozens of pages of army lists, rules PDFs, books etc. It is nice to have plenty of space to store them. Plus I always leave with even more stuff than I arrived with.  Cant beat it.

Now for the insides.

Inside this bag I have about 2k points worth of Blood Angels including a Storm Raven, four rhinos, a furioso, 30 odd infantry, 5 terminators, land raider, 5 40mm base objectives, banners, and various odds and ends.  This is a LOT of stuff for a small transport.  One feature that makes this work is the zipper flap. This is not a new feature to army transports, but it is the first bag I have owned where as you unzip the bag, the top opens up and out.  This opens the bag in such a way that you do not have to slide the trans down or over each other like an oven. No more snagged models!  You can see in the pics that my stackable trays come easily out and fit snugly.

Finally, as you can see in the bottom tray, it was cut perfectly to fit my storm raven, two dread slots and two pod slots which also hold 4 rhinos instead.  I used a Sabol plucky tray to hold my land raider and flyer stand. And every thing else fits great.

There are some cons, but for that you will have to watch my videos. I am currently uploading part one of the jawa review. The first part is about 13 minutes in length.  I will be embedding the video in this post for you as I upload them this week.  So watch the reviews and enjoy! Oh, and they are made in the USA!

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Here is part one: