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Glad to hear you got everything from wave one. Have you put any together yet?

 Cypher-xv wrote:
Glad to hear you got everything from wave one. Have you put any together yet?

Now there is a proper gamer / hobbiest question!
I like the cut of your jib sah!

<edit>Yes, progress reports, pictures... just get cracking so we can live through you until our stuff arrives...

 Mike1975 wrote:
I texted Jeff at PB. Only First Contacts, the main boxes have been sent out. So if this person ordered more if he PM's or posts his Name and Invoice # and/or backer kit # he should be able to look into it in the morning. Also a phone # would be nice so that maybe they can talk with each other and straighten out any confusion that exists. This could be a mistake, a problem with Kickstarter or any number of things.

They're apparently still working on the sub $80 pledge levels as a guy posted in the comments that his early bird $70 level just got shipped today.

So it looks like there may be some truth to those who put in the most are getting screwed the hardest.

 Cruentus wrote:

 warboss wrote:
Did you get a shipping tracking email from them first?

Yes I did get the shipping tracking email from them, it arrived the following week after notification.

Cool, thanks for the info. I just wanted to make sure they weren't stealth shipping them out.

 Swabby wrote:
So it looks like there may be some truth to those who put in the most are getting screwed the hardest.

While I fit squarely into the same camp (have a remaining Reckless, shipping to Australia), I do think this is the best choice. Most product to the most backers in the shortest time, will generate the most buzz. Can't fault them for that, even if that still leaves some disappointed. They don't often make good choices, so I'll give them a pass on adequate ones.

However, as Forar pointed out on the KS Forums, there's also the possibility, that because this container was "GenCon bound", it had a higher percentage of non-BattleCry components, so they're getting out the stuff they have stock on.

Someone else mentioned the possibility that they may be waiting on the "Special Edition Print", something like the resin components should have been done six months ago. Again, pure speculation, but would be the keystone cops approach by Palladium that we've come to know and loathe.

Yeah, much as I hate being one of the orders that, despite being local and a low KS/Backerkit number, might get put off by a container or three, it does make some sense.

I could see them even changing things up a little if they got 2 containers at once and decided that they needed to fire off as much as possible and skipped to the showdowns and/or reckless+ orders, but considering their technophobia, I could just as easily see them setting a shipping list in stone and only wavering from it under the most extenuating of circumstances.

That said, if they're still working on those first ~200 orders after a full week (literal or business), they really need to step up their game.

 Talizvar wrote:

 Cypher-xv wrote:
Glad to hear you got everything from wave one. Have you put any together yet?

Now there is a proper gamer / hobbiest question!
I like the cut of your jib sah!

<edit>Yes, progress reports, pictures... just get cracking so we can live through you until our stuff arrives...

Eesh. Nothing like a little pressure. I didn't put anything together yet, and its likely I won't get to them anytime soon. My Sedition Wars KS still sits unassembled in my closet (and that's way fewer parts). I'm mostly worried about the small nature of the parts that then create gaps to be filled and sanded. I tend to go abit overboard on mold lines and gaps with these kinds of kits, and I'm afraid that this will push me over the edge . And I was surprised at how small the models are (destroids, valkyries) in person. Its looking rather fiddly to get those arm/leg halves together. I had seen the metal pods and other minis at Adepticon a year or so ago, and they looked sizeable (and the plastic pods are bigger). The others seem small to me, but its likely that they're "in scale" to the pods, and thus, small. It could also be me.

I'll try to see if I can get a sprue shot or something against a 28mm miniature. Or maybe I'll try to take a sprue of something into work and assemble it tomorrow and post a pic of it tomorrow evening.

Here is a sprue shot of the destroid tomahawk (warhammer) alongside some of my older battletech miniatures (can't remember the company that put these out, oh, around 30 years ago). I still have the rules and scenario sheets for them too, for battletech. Sniff.

Now, I realized that the Robotech stuff would be smaller, and I think these scale to 1/72 scale. I also have a 1/144 dougram that is about the same height at the archer and crusader.

I think I'll take this sprue in and build one of the tomahawks. There are a couple of things that strike me off the bat. One is that the arms for the tomahawk in the assembly instructions show the shoulder/gun mounts as separate. In the sprue shot, you can see the gun/arm/shoulder have been combined. Two of the arms are "pointing" and two are at a 90 degree angle. I don't necessarily want pointing, so changing that will be a job.

I'll post the model tomorrow, but it'll be rough, with no gap filling, etc. Although I'll likely scrape/file/dryfit before gluing (i.e. I'll be careful). We'll see what it looks like.

Good news. Another backer just posted on the ks page that he got his stuff.


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So what's that? 3 or 4 now who have received their stuff?

Maybe as high as 0.1% checking in!

Progress!

I suspect they'll post bragging about being 98% done with shipping soon!

I got a message from UPS that a package will be delivered.

I'm expecting nothing else, so..... maybe?

I was in for Reckless + way too much.

Here's to a small bit of hope.

 TalonZahn wrote:
I got a message from UPS that a package will be delivered.

I'm expecting nothing else, so..... maybe?

I was in for Reckless + way too much.

Here's to a small bit of hope.

Whoa. If true, I'll start getting excited. But, not true till pics!

Anyway, what was your backer #?

1667 is what KS says.

I should know fairly early tomorrow.

UPS dude is usually here around 10am at the latest.

That sprue is for 1 15mm model? Are you serious? That is a gak ton of pieces.

 cincydooley wrote:
That sprue is for 1 15mm model? Are you serious? That is a gak ton of pieces.

6mm. I'm not sure which sprue you mean but most I've seen have two models per sprue.

 TalonZahn wrote:
1667 is what KS says.

I should know fairly early tomorrow.

UPS dude is usually here around 10am at the latest.

Wow. I ordered a double showdown and am backer #1205.

Small grumble, but congrats on your shipping notice.

So we basically have the same Pledge Level as 2xShowdown = 1 Reckless. Although my total Pledge was over $1000.00 in the end.

Where are you located?

I'm about a 12 hour drive from them.

 TalonZahn wrote:
So we basically have the same Pledge Level as 2xShowdown = 1 Reckless. Although my total Pledge was over $1000.00 in the end.

Where are you located?

I'm about a 12 hour drive from them.

I'm also over 1,000 - I'm in Orlando, FL. Sure, it's further away, but how much does that matter for domestic shipping when you're doing this much of it?

Eh, hopefully I'll get a shipping notice soon.

Someone probably enrolled me in the Jelly of The Month Club.

My wife changed the delivery until 5pm, as there appears to be something more important for her to do this morning than wait by the door for what may, or may not, be my Robotech toys.

I knew I should have bought a Helper Monkey.

Did you get an email from Palladium about it being shipped prior?

Quoting this picture forward for Cincy.

Yes, even with two models on the sprue it's a lot of parts but it's not like Palladium is unique in this regard. Below is a comparison of a fairly well-done WW2 tank's sprue. While not every part is used, casual eyeballing tells me that specifically building the Panzer IV H would be about 26 pieces involved per tank. A kit of the same tank from another manufacturer that only produces the Pz4 H (the one shown below makes three different marks) clocks in at 20 parts per tank. Part count isn't really that out of sorts from my experience. It's that when you scale up to the model count that RRT uses versus the 15mm tanks which are typically no more than 20 models for most games that it's an issue. However, model count is a function of rules and player choice, not the models themselves.

Well, no Robotech.

It was a surprise package from the in-laws.

Now I have a cold and I'm depressed it wasn't my toys.

Assuming they try to reach out to as many backers as possible, I doubt the Showdowns/Recklesses/bigger orders will be going out until container 3+, with some possible variance based on just how much is being wrapped up and shipped off again to the EU for internal distribution.

Note, as much as I recognize this being a reasonable approach, especially with so many people being a bit on the cranky side these days, I'm no happier than anyone else about my crew's 8 boxes probably not going out until October or November at this rate. But I recognize that it may be the case and why. The only saving grace I/we might have is being located a mere ~250 miles from them/on North America.

Take this time to get all your other hobby projects finished. (LOL)

 Manchu wrote:
Take this time to get all your other hobby projects finished. (LOL)

You are a bad evil person.
<yoda voice> There is no "finished" there is only good enough or not enough good!

*blink*

I thought having unpainted models was the path to immortality?

I WAS LIED TO!

There will certainly be a lot of immaculate sprues buried under my pyramid.

Here is a side by side of the destroid defender sprue (2 models per) next to a PSC 15mm german tank sprue.

I did assemble a destroid tomahawk today, and I'll post pics later when I get them off my camera. The Tomahawk (as I assembled it) was 19 or so parts for a 6mm model.

More pics this evening