Author: Robodaz
Space:1999 Eagle 1B Resin Cast Kit by Fast Forward Models – Part One – Unboxing
The Original Eagle 1B models by BP Taylor for Wonderfest 2011  — “It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.” Robert H. Goddard This is how BP Taylor styles his model making website, Fast Forward Models, and I think it speaks very profoundly; not only of the general human condition, but also (and ...
1/20 Ma.K. Pak Krote by Wave – Part Two – Build and The Yokoyama Army
1/20 Ma.K. Pak Krote by Wave – Available from HobbyLink Japan The Real Ma.K Daddies! Ma.K is more than models, more than a narrative, it is a community built over the decades around designs which wear their cobbled and kit-bashed nature on their sleeves and hold hard to the ethos established by Master Yokoyama, perfectly exemplified by the kit being built here, as well as the kits displayed ...
1/20 Ma.K. Pak Krote by Wave – Part One – Unboxing and Legacy
1/20 Ma.K. Pak Krote by Wave – Available from HobbyLink Japan Kitbashers! Yokoyama Kow is one of the masters of kitbashing: that noble hobby art of taking all manner of gubbins from a variety of model kits and stuffing them all together (perhaps with some modeling putty) to create something totally new. More than mere modding. More than simple styling. Kitbashing is an art unto itself and gi...
Super Robot Chogokin Giant Robo THE ANIMATION Version by Bandai – Part Two – Review
Super Robot Chogokin Giant Robo THE ANIMATION Version by Bandai – Available from HobbyLink Japan A Child’s Toy No More “I did not mind so much that people might have wanted to update the robots in Giant Robo. However, Mr. Imagawa and especially Kobayashi [Makoto] insisted on maintaining as much of my old style as possible. I was worried that, that would simply make it seem old fa...
Super Robot Chogokin Giant Robo THE ANIMATION Version by Bandai – Part One – Unboxing
Super Robot Chogokin Giant Robo THE ANIMATION Version by Bandai – Available from HobbyLink Japan Gentle Giants It is one of the terrible facts of fandom that, by the time he died in 2004 following a fire at his home, Yokoyama Mitsuteru had rather dropped from the public consciousness even if his work had not. This was certainly the case when, in 2001, I began frequenting a little cafe in Tos...
Comet Miniatures Mk3 Movie Dalek – Part Two – Build
Comet Impact At the end of the 1980s, with money finally in my pocket (from actual work), I found myself beginning to pay more and more attention to the SF models, toys, and books which had been beyond my reach before. Living in Sheffield, as I was at the time, there was only one place to which a chap might turn for such things: the Hallowed Shrine of Hedonism known as ‘The Sheffield Space C...
Comet Miniatures Mk3 Movie Dalek – Part One – Unboxing
EXTERMINATE! Who would think that a hoard of giant condiment sets that (until the late ’80s) could not even climb stairs would turn out to be some of the most potent, and enduring SF villains? Even in that most venerable of series Doctor Who, which has even to this day something of a reputation for wobbly props, rubbery aliens, and a predilection for filming in the same quarry in South Wales...
Armored Core – 1/72 Type-Lahire Stasis Re-Release by Kotobukiya – Part Two – Review
Armored Core – 1/72 Type-Lahire Stasis Re-Release – Available from HobbyLink Japan More Answers Than Questions A direct sequel to Armored Core 4, ‘For Answer‘ was released in 2008 for the PS3 and XB360, and marks something of a deviation from its predecessor in some ways. Though a direct sequel, and taking place around ten years after AC4 the game is set apart by some very ...
Armored Core – 1/72 Type-Lahire Stasis Re-release by Kotobukiya – Part One – Unboxing
Armored Core – 1/72 Type-Lahire Stasis Re-Release – Available from HobbyLink Japan Generation X2 As the 1980s turned to the 90s and gaming technology crept out of the 8-bit days of the NES, the one thing that the consumer base did not really have – and seemingly could not have – was the sort of mech-fighting action, which was so prominent in the animation of the period. Sur...
1/48 Space:1999 Eagle Transporter by MPC/Round 2 – Part Two – Review
1/48 Space:1999 Eagle Transporter – Available from HobbyLink Japan When Brian Johnson, who had worked with Gerry Anderson before on Thunderbirds, was called into the ITC Studios to take charge of the ship design on Space: 1999, the world of SF was undergoing something of a sea-change. The sleek, ‘futurist’ designs of the optimistic ’50s had rather given way to a form of gru...
