Post by SkyKnight on Jul 14, 2007 19:28:28 GMT -5
Okay this is the first time I am doing a review on this board.
And here is the finish kit, I will try to take better photos later on...
I got this Zoids from fellow member, Hidocker, considering that I haven't got any Zoids in for the last few months, and I don't have many Empire Zoids to begin with. This is a good investment when compared to the disaster that I had with the OJR Orudios (still need replacement parts).
Construction was easy with just four spruces to work with, the only tricky part would have to be placing the rubber tubes around the body. The finish kit looks good, thou I have to say the body leans a bit too close to the surface and the tail is much longer than the main body (which are like iguanas in the real world).
It is a wind-up kit, so no batteries are needed. The mechanism with the wind-up includes the legs moving and the weapon pod shifting back and forth like the motion of the recoil of firing a cannon. But I have to say the movement isn't very nice on the surface, only when I suspended the kit is the air that the legs and weapon pod moved smoothly.
The things that I would boot about is the rear end of the body panel , where there is significant room of a gap, which could be either the plastic mold had deteriorated over the time, or it was an inherited defect (does anyone who has a OJR Heldy know to what to say here?). And there is only pilot that came with the kit, considering there is a gunner seat at the end, but I do have a personal bias against tail gunners in most Zoids release (doesn't work well in the real life, would you like to be the tail gunner on any Zoids?).
Overall I think this is a good Zoids to get, one, this is OJR re-release for the NJR/NAR line. And the designs looks good, and after seeing the CP-07 on this, I say keep the kit as it is. A HMM release would be interesting to see how the designers will "re-image" Heldy.
Feel free to comment on this, and if anyone has a OJR Heldy, please feel free to post it on this thread.
And here is the finish kit, I will try to take better photos later on...
I got this Zoids from fellow member, Hidocker, considering that I haven't got any Zoids in for the last few months, and I don't have many Empire Zoids to begin with. This is a good investment when compared to the disaster that I had with the OJR Orudios (still need replacement parts).
Construction was easy with just four spruces to work with, the only tricky part would have to be placing the rubber tubes around the body. The finish kit looks good, thou I have to say the body leans a bit too close to the surface and the tail is much longer than the main body (which are like iguanas in the real world).
It is a wind-up kit, so no batteries are needed. The mechanism with the wind-up includes the legs moving and the weapon pod shifting back and forth like the motion of the recoil of firing a cannon. But I have to say the movement isn't very nice on the surface, only when I suspended the kit is the air that the legs and weapon pod moved smoothly.
The things that I would boot about is the rear end of the body panel , where there is significant room of a gap, which could be either the plastic mold had deteriorated over the time, or it was an inherited defect (does anyone who has a OJR Heldy know to what to say here?). And there is only pilot that came with the kit, considering there is a gunner seat at the end, but I do have a personal bias against tail gunners in most Zoids release (doesn't work well in the real life, would you like to be the tail gunner on any Zoids?).
Overall I think this is a good Zoids to get, one, this is OJR re-release for the NJR/NAR line. And the designs looks good, and after seeing the CP-07 on this, I say keep the kit as it is. A HMM release would be interesting to see how the designers will "re-image" Heldy.
Feel free to comment on this, and if anyone has a OJR Heldy, please feel free to post it on this thread.
