Local Hasegawa Distribution to your LHS. If your local hobby store sells Hasegawa models then they can get the Hasegawa kits. Most times it’s only because the purchasing staff don’t know what they are and bundle them with the aircraft range. Ask them and they can get them for you, they will be happy for you to update them on more products to sell! Sadly they probably cannot get WAVE nor Kaiyoudo for you. Maschinen Krieger (Ma.K ZBV3000) is a science fiction universe owned by Japanese Illustrator (his preferred job title) Kow Yokoyama Sensei. It started as a series in Hobby Japan magazine with the creation team of Kunitaka Imai san, Hiroshi Ichimura san and Kow Yokoyama san in 1982. The then president of Hobby Japan naming the series, SF3D or “Sci-Fi Sunday”. A play on a possible Japanese pronunciation of 3D and to imply an enjoyable weekend spent building plastic models. Hobby Japan then partnered with Nitto Kagaku Kyouzaisha to produce the first generation of SF3D plastic models and who with Imai-san designed the iconic tan box. Ichimura san wrote the story and Kow Yokyama san did the concept art, illustrations and many of the kitbash and sculpted models as original artworks. The close proximity of military modelers and tabletop wargamers meant that SF3D being pushed into gaming may not have been inevitable, but it made a lot of sense. Hobby Japan had already released a number of tabletop wargames based on World War II battles like Operation Market Garden and the Battle of Stalingrad, but many of these were localized versions of American games. Hornet Hobbies has obtained some classic Nitto Maschinen Krieger kits. Get them before they disappear Step9 sees you put together both halves of the suit's pelvis, in that same two halves and poly cap construction manner, and then you are ready to go on to the longer and more detailed construction of the upper half of the suit.

The colour image has changed significantly by putting the whole thing in dark grey and adding orange markings to the upper body. Currently, we have 2 major vendors making Ma.K (em ei kei) kits and as the Official International Ambassador for the series, I thought I could help shed some light on this for you. Didn't go super overboard in terms of weathering for this one. I imagined it on a mars setup. So no rust While Nitto’s market share might have been small, they made up for it with a line of high-quality kits with features and accessories that kits based on TV anime would never include. Released in December of ’83, Nitto’s SF3D kits featured metal springs, etched metal accessories for detail, and decals that would have looked more at home on a Panzer IV than Zaku II. But attention to detail wasn’t the only thing that made them stand out— they were also a very unusual scale: 1/20.My main shop was the local Yodobashi Hobby Kan shop in Nishi Shinjuku - I could zoom in there, just 2 stations from my home. Other times I would get them in Akiba at the huge Yodobashi store or even at Yellow Submarine along with paints & supplies. Yokoyama continues to create new kits and new designs, but much of what seems to sustain the Ma.K community is a willingness to embrace individual creativity. Seriously, browse that Facebook community and you’ll see a huge range of builds varying in style and aesthetic. Whether you’re building regular plastic kits, sitting down with a resin garage kit, or piecing together old Star Wars and World War II kits necessary to recreate Yokoyama’s original scratchbuilds (seriously – that’s a thing!), the community embraces individuality and creativity.

This kept them in scale with Yokoyama’s original kits (the Microman figures used for those were roughly 1/18, while 1/20 scale Formula 1 pit crew figures were used for dioramas), but left them at odds with contemporary sci-fi, or even military kits. At the time, pretty much the only kits you’d find at that scale were automotive. While influence can be difficult to quantify, it seems safe to say that SF3D has had a profound impact on artists and designers worldwide. Yokoyama’s designs and the unique design language he uses has influenced an entire generation of creators, even if they may not recognize his name. Sometimes the influence is obvious, like Hawken, other times it may just be a sketch or battle-worn model kit shared on social media. Wonderful junk kit, indeed. Having never put one of these MAKkits together before, I was pretty concerned about getting everything just right in the build, so I followed instructions pretty much faithfully from start to finish. The Light grey paper is smartly decorated by Hasegawa, and it follows their normal, logical approach to modelling which is welcome on this, my "maidenvoyage into M.A.K." Borys Kit (September 20, 2017). " 'It' Producer to Adapt Sci-Fi Epic 'Ma.K' for Warner Bros. (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved January 29, 2020.Here is the inside of the suit - with the two holes for the arms of the pilot to go into and the interior of the face shield/ visor there to see with the two movable hinges that simply secure in a manner illustrated in the instructions very clearly. The four plates on the bottom of this picture are the lower body armoured plates that flap and move around if you want them to once constructed. In the early ‘90s, Nitto was able to rerelease SF3D kits under a new name — Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000. That mouthful of a name came from two sources: