Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Robotech Tactics: Prelude

Finally! Wave 1 sets have arrived!

Got my hands unboxing them yesterday and assemble some test units, just to get the feel assembling them.

Zentradi Quel-Gulnau Recovery Pod
The Recovery Pod is quite straight forward to build and assemble. 1 kit in the sprue itself with no extra parts.
Recommended order: chassis->rear antenna->stand-> arms->antennas

Zentradi Reconnaissance Battlepod
The antenna on the radar sensor was a pain to assemble. Made a mistake of assembling the sensor first on the model before the antenna. The other pain to assemble was the twin antennas in the front. For some reason, it just does not go in the groove well even during test fitting. This unit comes together with the Officer Battlepod.
Recommended order: chasis->legs->complete antenna assembly->mini bits

Zentradi Glaug Officer Battlepod
Everything was a simple fit until you reach the arms. Poorly designed fits in which you will need to put some support under the arm cannons for it to stay in place while the cement dries.
Recommended order: chassis->legs->cannon and bits->arms

I should be working on my first artillery battlepods and regular battlepods soon. The sprue list should also be added by the next post.

Also to add, Palladium Books finally release a detailed guide on assembling these units at DriveThruRpg

2 comments:

FourEyedMonster said...

For some reason these babies look like War of the Worlds stuff. Really cool!

DWolve said...

They are cool all right. Too bad they made them small. Too much detail for this scale.