Author: Robodaz
1/160 2001: A Space Odyssey Orion Space Clipper by Moebius/Platz – Part Two – Build
Available from HobbyLink Japan here Something from Nothing One of the things on which Douglas Trumbull has spoken – and lamented – over the years is his mixed feelings about Stanley Kubrick’s seemingly cavalier attitude to the groundbreaking models, sets, and props used for 2001: A Space Odyssey. This is because after the film wrapped, Kubrick ordered all physical elements, as we...
1/160 2001: A Space Odyssey Orion Space Clipper by Moebius/Platz – Part One – Unboxing
Available from HobbyLink Japan here Dancing in the Sea of Stars “You’re free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a very deep level—but I don’t want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or fear he’s missed the ...
Petarinko Godzilla Chikisai Stone Kick Ver. by Image
Little Monsters! Available from HobbyLink Japan here When Minira is not Minira? Image is an interesting little — almost atavistic — garage kit company which has managed to survive almost unchanged from the 1980s, and specialises, as you will see from its website, in cutsie, SD versions of a variety of Tokusatsu monsters, with a heavy bias towards Toho’s own king of monsters. Befo...
1/32 Mitsubishi A6M7 Zero Fighter Type 62 302nd Flying Group by  Hasegawa – Part Two – Build
1/32 Mitsubishi A6M7 Zero Fighter Type 62 302nd Flying Group by  Hasegawa Available from HobbyLink Japan here Zero Mythology or Zero Facts? The Mitsubishi Zero series of planes have long stood tall in the minds of veterans, wargamers, and modellers alike since the US first endured their wrath at the opening of the war. Since then, something of a myth was raised around the ghost of the Zero, before...
1/32 Mitsubishi A6M7 Zero Fighter Type 62 302nd Flying Group by Hasegawa – Part one – Unbox
1/32 Mitsubishi A6M7 Zero Fighter Type 62 302nd Flying Group by Hasegawa Available from HobbyLink Japan here The Tigers, Cornered On June 26th, 2017 at a meeting of Matsumoto Leiji with students from my own institution, he was asked about the root of his life long passion for what many fans see as idealistic romance. His answer rather shocked us all. We had expected something about his love for th...
1/100 SA-77 Silpheed The Lost Planet Version by P.M. Office A – Part Two – Build
Available from HobbyLink Japan Lost to the Universe… “I have been making games for nearly thirty years, but I believe my motivation in those years has been to make people happy. With shooting and action games, the goal is to eliminate the threat, so they’re often saddled with an image of barbarity. I do not feel that is the core of games lie, however. There has to be some other e...
1/100 SA-77 Silpheed The Lost Planet Version by P.M. Office A (AKA ‘PLUM’) – Part One – Unbox
Available from HobbyLink Japan Ghosts of the Past The Silpheed line of games is not one that many people will know today, very sadly, as the series had little continuity, varying quality, patchy distribution and, in latter years, very little textual data to help the scholar looking to find out more on this ‘oldy-but-goody’. However, though largely disregarded and poorly understood by a...
Volks SWS 1/32 Kyushu J7W Shinden – Oh My Goddess Race Version. Part Two. Build.
Find more Volks Shinden products at HobbyLink Japan By the Seats of Their Pants… Air racing, at least with heavier craft, has been with us almost as long as aircraft themselves. Whether it be about speed, endurance and other firsts/records/whatever, or simply the organized races that became so important in the 1930s – such as the famed Schneider Trophy, a detailed history of which can ...
Zoukei Mura SWS 1/32 Kyushu J7W Shinden – Oh My Goddess Race Version. Part One. Unboxing
Volks Shinden related products can be found here Lightning Strikes Twice The Kyūshū J7W1 Shinden (Magnificent Lightning Bolt) was a Pusher aircraft design devised by the Japanese Navy at the end of WWII, in the hopes that a short range, high speed, high altitude interceptor might be able to fend off the increasing US bombing raids over Japanese cities. With its 30mm cannons and a proposed Jet turb...
1/1000 Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Earth Federation Ship Andromeda Movie Effect Ver. by Bandai. Part 2. Build
Available at HobbyLink Japan Two is better than one? [Spoiler Alert] In the sequel to Space Battleship Yamato 2199, the Andromeda class ships represent the way in which the United Nations Cosmo Force has assimilated the technology provided by Starsha to restore the Earth into an uprated and upgunned version of the Yamato itself. This is a major issue for the woman who sacrificed herself and her ki...
1/1000 Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Earth Federation Ship Andromeda Movie Effect Ver. by Bandai. Part 1. Unboxing
Available at HobbyLink Japan Broken Promises, Renewed Hopes. Remaking anything is a bit of a risk. Remaking one of the seminal moments of any point in history is fraught with real danger. Remaking something that stands alone artistically, culturally and something over which two titans of the animation industry were willing to shed blood is just asking for trouble. And yet, both Yamato 2199 and Yam...
1/48 Flying Saucer Adamski Type by Wave – Part Two – Build
Available from HobbyLink Japan Rain from an Iron Sky. Wunderwaffe… The Wonder Weapons that would save the dying Third Reich which in 1943 was forced onto a slow, brutal re-guard which would not end for another two, horrible years. Thanks to the self-absorbed and irrational way that the state was led, and by whom in this time of drawing in and fear, the military, nation, and leadership began ...
