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 Talizvar wrote:

The female suit in pewter is freaking heavy BTW, I will need to weigh that thing on it's own, I swear it is a half pound.

Soon, I will complete my Robotech, with or without PB.

Yup, she's got some curves for sure. It's why I put such a priority on trading my metals for the original resin variants instead... and then just having them sit in a box for the past year and a half. :( If you finish that last part, don't forget to post pics of the games. Some of us have to live vicariously through others in that regard.

Well, years and years ago I didn't get RRT's resin special snazzy edition of the SDF-1.

...so I guess I'll have to make do with this one



Just got it from a local vendor, for 39 euros, no shipping because local.

Congrats! Is that the 1/4000 version? I saw that on amazon last year and considered getting it as a proxy for three ships in Halo fleet battles (each ARMD separately plus the SDF). I think my fav part of that kit was the teeny tiny little mecha, especially the MAC II!

Yep, the 1/4000 by Hasegawa. The box is immense. Can't wait to get it assembled!

jaymz wrote:
My friend ran 11 demos over 16ish hours sat/sun. He was dressed as a zentraedi officer. 10 of those demos were abput 20-25 minutes each and 1 that at most was an hour (did all demos but 1 with only a single core unit per side). He drove an hour each way both days to do all of this. Palladium themselves did no demos of their own and had none of the 3d prints of 2nd wave material on display.

His compensation for essentially doing every possible bit of PR for rrt for them was his pass into the con and a whopping 50% off the one metal mini he bought (14 bucks). He didnt need anything since he bought several already last Gencon.

Your buddy dumped 20 hours of his time promoting Palladium's RTT? At the current $10/hr California minimum wage, he should have been compensated $200 + mileage. I'm sure his pass being comped by the con helped, but it's a hell of a thing to give up both Sat & Sun just to get Friday and/or Monday free..

 Albertorius wrote:
Yep, the 1/4000 by Hasegawa. The box is immense. Can't wait to get it assembled!

Too many projects going on now but THAT is a fine model.
Good luck, I have read good reviews on that guy.


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 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Your buddy dumped 20 hours of his time promoting Palladium's RTT? At the current $10/hr California minimum wage, he should have been compensated $200 + mileage. I'm sure his pass being comped by the con helped, but it's a hell of a thing to give up both Sat & Sun just to get Friday and/or Monday free..

He seems to love the game, I think his "compensation" would have been better if more people came by to play.
His horrible dice rolls were taken with good grace but did not help matters.
I was "surprised" there was no convention mark-down on the product: it was all marked up to match the USD cost on their website.

If I was a really nice person, I should have contacted PB and offered to hold "Build a Pod" sessions to show people how to do models (no, not donate my own to build or be given away).
NOT UEDF forces, we do not want to scare them off!
"See how easy the pods are to do..." "What are those jet things?" "Nothing to worry about now... you are building pods, they are fun!"
It is not like all those little box sets were going anywhere... $37 odd dollars, no, no, no...

I must admit I feel guilty to not have played but I had a few dad duties to deal with kids feeling overwhelmed / excited with the convention.
Plus I wanted to talk a bit with Jamz since his interests or at least active games he plays matches mine.

I spent more time at the Bayblade area of all things since my kids entered the competition.
"Let it RIPPPPP!!!!" is as bad a "WHAAAAAAAGH!!!" with 40k.

jaymz wrote:
His compensation for essentially doing every possible bit of PR for rrt for them was his pass into the con and a whopping 50% off the one metal mini he bought (14 bucks). He didnt need anything since he bought several already last Gencon. .

Gotta ask, has their been a price increase, or is there something missing in the math? Cause the last I read, the metal minis were $22 per item. 50% off would be $11.

Morgan Vening wrote:

jaymz wrote:
His compensation for essentially doing every possible bit of PR for rrt for them was his pass into the con and a whopping 50% off the one metal mini he bought (14 bucks). He didnt need anything since he bought several already last Gencon. .

Gotta ask, has their been a price increase, or is there something missing in the math? Cause the last I read, the metal minis were $22 per item. 50% off would be $11.

Canadian pricing versus US.

Did something 'upsetting' get posted on the PB forums? Because in both the RTT and all things palladium forums posts have been deleted back to the 27th. And yes there were new posts there but I didnt look yesterday.

 Talizvar wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:
Yep, the 1/4000 by Hasegawa. The box is immense. Can't wait to get it assembled!

Too many projects going on now but THAT is a fine model.
Good luck, I have read good reviews on that guy.

It is a big gal, let me tell you:

jaymz wrote:

Morgan Vening wrote:
Gotta ask, has their been a price increase, or is there something missing in the math? Cause the last I read, the metal minis were $22 per item. 50% off would be $11.

Canadian pricing versus US.

Gotcha. Makes perfect sense now. And you did say they'd price adjusted to reflect US costs. I just didn't have the two things click.


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evilsmurf wrote:
Did something 'upsetting' get posted on the PB forums? Because in both the RTT and all things palladium forums posts have been deleted back to the 27th. And yes there were new posts there but I didnt look yesterday.

Not sure. I know that traffic on the RRT forum is bugger all, sometimes going close to two weeks without posting. And even the ATP forum has been slow since the Savage Worlds Kickstarter has concluded (condolence threads excepted).

Lack of engagement from the people in charge.+ No new products in a half year + Relatively small fanbase + No new controversy + Excessive banhammering = Nothing much to talk about.

If there were posts deleted, I'd expect it was just someone flaming out (Screw you Palladium! See you in hell!). Everything else seems intact.

I've popped in a few times over a three day weekend to see if more Anime North news made it over there in addition to dakka (or if the Dakka news made it there and the denials started) and I haven't seen anything new pop up since at least Friday. I don't think anything has been culled; it's just that much of a ghost town. The last time I checked it prior to this weekend it was an almost two week stretch between posts. Even the general palladium subforum hadn't been posted in for days and the only Robotech RPG bumps were the usual joke/parody threads that are the only consistently active topics for years.

 Albertorius wrote:

It is a big gal, let me tell you:

<------ Envious that you've got yours started already. I have the TV version at home waiting patiently for me to get around to working on it, and it looks gorgeous. Can't wait for you to slap some paint on it and show me up there too!

Have an exalt!


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By the way,

 Albertorius wrote:

It is a big gal, let me tell you:

Yes, but it's not quite a Monster!



Laugh it up, folks, I'm here all week!

 Albertorius wrote:
It is a big gal, let me tell you:

Hey Albertorius, what are those minis behind the SDF1? Beyond the Gates of Antares Concord miniatures right?

Wave Two's uncertainty has done more damage than everything else.

evilsmurf wrote:
Did something 'upsetting' get posted on the PB forums? Because in both the RTT and all things palladium forums posts have been deleted back to the 27th. And yes there were new posts there but I didnt look yesterday.

I haven't noticed anything, and I'm on there just about every day.

 Nesbet wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:
It is a big gal, let me tell you:

Hey Albertorius, what are those minis behind the SDF1? Beyond the Gates of Antares Concord miniatures right?

Yep! Some plastic C3 regular troopers and some metal drop troops.

evilsmurf wrote:
Did something 'upsetting' get posted on the PB forums? Because in both the RTT and all things palladium forums posts have been deleted back to the 27th. And yes there were new posts there but I didnt look yesterday.

nope don't see anything amiss there, just think its quiet, did see someone post who thinks PB and ND are still working together or such ?

Cool! Could you please post some pics of these minaitures with the Regults and valkyries beside them? In Robotech Tactics Unofficial the C3 miniatures were mentioned as a viable and good looking alternative for zentraedi infantry.
I would like to see how well they match with the Regults and overall RRT scale.

Thanks in advance!

Well, I boxed up all my Wave 1 stuff and moved it out of my game room and into dead storage in the garage. I can't bring myself to actually sell it off (assuming I could even find a buyer) but every time I saw that big box sitting next to my painting table I'd get angry all over again. That's not what a hobby is for so... out with it!

 mdauben wrote:
Well, I boxed up all my Wave 1 stuff and moved it out of my game room and into dead storage in the garage. I can't bring myself to actually sell it off (assuming I could even find a buyer) but every time I saw that big box sitting next to my painting table I'd get angry all over again. That's not what a hobby is for so... out with it!

well you could always do like this card shop did:

@mdauben, I could buy the bases and action tokens at least ^_^u

@Asterios, that video is as real as the russian yeti. So fake that the eyes bleed xD

 Nesbet wrote:
@mdauben, I could buy the bases and action tokens at least ^_^u

@Asterios, that video is as real as the russian yeti. So fake that the eyes bleed xD

actually the guy has a lot of dumpster diving videos out and this is probably the biggest haul or one of the biggest he has gotten, it is very real.

 Nesbet wrote:
Cool! Could you please post some pics of these minaitures with the Regults and valkyries beside them? In Robotech Tactics Unofficial the C3 miniatures were mentioned as a viable and good looking alternative for zentraedi infantry.
I would like to see how well they match with the Regults and overall RRT scale.

Thanks in advance!

actually look at Sedition wars troops, they make a decent replacement for Zentraedi, in fact think Mike (and others) is doing something like that.

Asterios wrote:
actually look at Sedition wars troops, they make a decent replacement for Zentraedi, in fact think Mike (and others) is doing something like that.

Why do you people keep showing me new ways to replace PB KS product? Why???
Challenge accepted.
I have a feeling some moderate green stuff use will be needed to create the few key features needed.
Never mind the garish colour scheme would make them believable all on their own.

Like these?

Okay, Anyone that was interested in those GHQ pewter minis PB has been flogging, here are some pictures of the contents (this is for you Nesbet)
My only beef is that the female armor had a short shot of incomplete flow to the back main jets.
I will have to rebuild those areas before cloning can be done properly.
I will probably build Breetai first since well, there can only be one of him.
The unit voted least likely to be fielded but we sure would like to see it.

 mdauben wrote:
Well, I boxed up all my Wave 1 stuff and moved it out of my game room and into dead storage in the garage. I can't bring myself to actually sell it off (assuming I could even find a buyer) but every time I saw that big box sitting next to my painting table I'd get angry all over again. That's not what a hobby is for so... out with it!

I moved a few months back and a buddy that I use to play robotech helped me moved... As payment I gave him all my kick starter stuff..Told him not to talk about it with me and don't offer me to ever play it...

 Genoside07 wrote:

 mdauben wrote:
Well, I boxed up all my Wave 1 stuff and moved it out of my game room and into dead storage in the garage. I can't bring myself to actually sell it off (assuming I could even find a buyer) but every time I saw that big box sitting next to my painting table I'd get angry all over again. That's not what a hobby is for so... out with it!

I moved a few months back and a buddy that I use to play robotech helped me moved... As payment I gave him all my kick starter stuff..Told him not to talk about it with me and don't offer me to ever play it...

Well, this is getting depressing.

 Genoside07 wrote:
I moved a few months back and a buddy that I use to play robotech helped me moved... As payment I gave him all my kick starter stuff..Told him not to talk about it with me and don't offer me to ever play it...

He should have demanded the 6-pack of beer!

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 Genoside07 wrote:
I moved a few months back and a buddy that I use to play robotech helped me moved... As payment I gave him all my kick starter stuff..Told him not to talk about it with me and don't offer me to ever play it...

He should have demanded the 6-pack of beer!

That way he would at least have gotten something out of it