Sci-fi Showdown, week 3 (2024 week 27)

This week we have some Zentradi from the Robotech RPG Tactics game. I'm also experimenting (slightly) with my lighting setup today so on top of these not being great paint jobs, they're also not well shot.

These first dudes are 2x Regault Battle Pods and one Recon Scout Pod. You might remember the first two from way back in 2019 week 15. When assembling those I lost two of the leg assembly bits that I subsequently found years later when moving my hobby station from downstairs to upstairs. I'd been looking for batches to do this year and found the next four dudes and figured, this would be the right time. The scout pod was assembled, primed, and washed and subsequently kicked around for the intervening five years. Yay. I wanted a grimier, grittier finish on these so they're basically a zenithal + simple base coats followed by an oil wash. They came out a little grimier than I wanted but the heavy wash covers up many sins in the basecoating so I'm going to be OK with that. 

These dudes are Zentradi Artillery Pods and they came in a box of four that I should not have bought. It was the beginning of the pandemic and a bunch of stuff was on sale at Miniature Market and I bought *way* too much as is typical (I'm slightly better about it these days). They sat around until I started looking for not-difficult batches that would help bring my Pile of Potential(TM) at least a little under control. Pretty sure I've typed this elsewhere but these sculpts are good but in *way* too many parts a bunch of which I've lost but don't care enough to replace. I especially dislike that so many of the large artillery bits have such small attachment points. Assembly was pretty tedious and I dread looking back in the main box because I super lover the destroids and expect pain. The whole batch of these was done in like eight hours.

Last up we have a...er...the internet tells me it's a Zentradi Recovery Pod and like the Recond Scout Pod above, it was also assembled and partially prepped in 2019. It's big and it's weird, and I don't really know what to do with it. Since I was already doing Robotech stuff, I figured it was high time to get it done once and for all. It came out a little grittier than I wanted but it's pretty lacking in details so the wash really wasn't ever going to do well on it. I think it's also missing one of its tiny fins on the bottom which is gone forever. Maybe it'll show up on the table at some point but I wouldn't hold my breath.

2024 finished mini counter: 148/208