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I picked up a 1/35 Maschinen Krieger kit and was just wondering what the “rules” are for building these kits for competition. Directed by Shinichi Ohoka from a script penned by co-producer Hisao Ichikura, the 25-minute SF3D Original Video opens with wreckage left from a battle in the Wiltshire wastelands on Christmas Day 2884 before focusing on a badly damaged IMA SAFS unit. And while we all want to have a certain “style”, the road to that lofty air is worn flat by the footprints of those in front of us. My head canon idea for that part and why it's so mismatched is that they had to scrounge it from another Falke with a different color scheme to replace a very damaged section of the hull. Much confusion surrounds the details of the franchise's background story, partly because the original Japanese source material has never been officially or skillfully translated.
The models produced were very high quality with crisp molding, fine details and they included copper rod, brass tube, spring coils, and photo-etched parts. They focussed more on the suits as compared to Hasegawa with the vehicles but have also upped their game with larger models like the Gladiator which is a current release at time of writing.
It consists of an illustrated series, a line of merchandise comprising display and action figures of mecha characters, a 1985 short film, as well as an upcoming Hollywood-produced film by Vertigo Entertainment's Roy Lee. He created an original casemate and mantle design and generated a small handful as a conversion kit. SF3D was introduced in the Hobby Japan Magazine as a special monthly installment of scratch built models.
After the usual fallings out, law suits and profit motivated reconciliations associated with pretty much every Japanese Sci-Fi franchise copyright to the designs was assigned to Yokoyama. It’s not something I’ve bothered with, and looking at various Categories/Judges Instructions on the net makes me glad I haven’t. Next in 2008, Kow Yokoyama Sensei was able to start re-releasing the Nitto kits together with WAVE coronation as 3Q Models, or "thank you” based on the Japanese pronunciation of “san + Q”. Of course there ‘s the purist approach we have come to expect, but the Maschinenkrieger KR52 sound also got a mindful update – the result being a strong contender, a contemporary blueprint for the genre. The box art shows a colorful scheme that looks a bit like fresh tuna… a bit of an orange, pinkish mix of color.K., is a science fiction intellectual property created by Japanese artist and sculptor Kow Yokoyama in the 1980s.