Camel Review (Fire-orange)

Hi there! I am back with the review of the Camel resin. This is easily the most expensive 1/20 Ma.K kit I've ever seen in YAJ so far. And I am glad to see it personally. However I don't have much information about it, so please do contribute further information about this kit if you have. The Camel is featured in the Ma.K encyclopedia and Ma.K BD, a mercenary space unit that operates on the Lunar surface. Its large, when standing beside the lunar pawn. However in Ma.K BD, its downed by a missile/rocket fired by the space version of the PKA. From the auction, its made by Fire-orange. Strangely, this package has no instructions. Anyway, enjoy the review, and for the buyer of the kit, enjoy building it! :)

Details

Scale: 1/20
Type of material : light yellow resin
Number of parts: many
Decals: yes
Instructions: yes
Overall quality: Good, little flash
Overall accuracy: unknown
Date of release: unknown
Release price: unknown
Current Running price in YAJ: 55000 yen and above

Pictures

non descrip box

packed with lots of packing material to protect the resin

parts in different plastic bags

body in 2 halves

pilot figure

clear canopy

cockpit, thrusters and misc parts

leg parts

decal and metal screws (behind the decal)

What came in today : Brickworks heads!

1/20 Independent Mercenary Army head sets(male & female) from brickworks came in as part of the HLJ MO (Mass Order) I organised last year... One old wrinkly male and a cute female resin with a visor. Plus a white metal cap (on the right)
Yay! :)

Shipment 10 is finally in...

I am happy to announce that after 2 months of shipment drought, shipment 10 is finally in... The economic crisis has hit this hobby hard, and fewer buyers/requests as well as a very bad Yen to USD rate.... I used to get 1usd : 105yen in April 2008. Now its a ridiculous 1usd : 85yen. Now although the prices of Ma.K are dropping across the board at YAJ, the exchange rate made it such that the final prices only dropped a tiny bit...

Well enough ranting, here are the contents:
Oskar, Krotes, Kauzs, Nausicaa kits...

cybastor resin (snake eye are you looking at this? ^^), Hobby Japan and B-Club magazines...
Huge nausicaa kit on the side, Grosserhund, Raptor, resin space ship, an occassional Camel (most expensive Ma.K I've won so far)
Most of this shipment are requests and are already taken up. I dare not bring in additional stuff nowadays...

WAVE Gans reissues IN!

Sorry haven't updated in a while, was very busy at work and at home... Received the WAVE Gans reissues early January. The box was 'lost' in the post office, being stuck under a table, otherwise I would have gotten it in 2008.

Bought 2 this time, and the box art looks great! Well packed and protected... I am very happy! :)
Contents: Basically the same as the Gans produced by WAVE the first time, with notable differences in the color of the instruction sheet, the decals and camo card. (see the Polar Bear checking it out... -_-''')
Camo card, The first one is a reindeer themed camo with the eyes painted red! Looks very nice I must say, dunno how it would look with winter camoflage slapped on. The second one is with a cat, not sure the meaning, but I think I've seen it before on some other Ma.K kit. The last one is my favourite, the King Frog, which I presume its commanded by the Konigs Krote?
The decals, which is slightly different. Gone are the orange pumpkin head which I really like... Fortunately, the green heart is still there. Check out
At Yahoo Auctions Japan, this reissue is abundant and caused the older Gans to disappear for a while. The price of the older Gans has also dropped to 6000-8000yen. Well, for those of us who want the old decals and camo cards, its a good time to buy...

All in all, no surprises in this kit, the sprues being the same. Take this as a mini review of the WAVE Gans 2nd release.
Check out my review of the first issue of the WAVE Gans here:
http://iluvmak.blogspot.com/2008/07/sk602-land-gans.html

SAFS R Space Type Prowler

Sorry for the huge delay, I had to take the photos of the old Prowler box and contents before posting this up. This review shows both the old SF3D and the new Ma.K boxing. The SAFS R Space Type Prowler is the space equivalent of the Raccoon, used for recon purposes. It has additional fuel tanks (very Gundam like if you ask me) poking out at the back and an enlarged pulse radar. Of the Nitto boxing, this kit contains all the parts of a Raccoon, SAFS, and Fireball so you can build any one of the SAFS suits out of it.

Finally posted this and got a weight off my chest! :)

Details

Scale: 1/20
Type of material : off-white injection molds
Number of parts: unknown in 6 sprues
Decals: yes
Instructions: yes
Overall quality: Very good
Overall accuracy: Accurate
Date of release: Sept2001
Release price: 1500 yen
Current Running price in YAJ: 3600 - 6750 yen

Pictures

old box

contents

SAFS sprues

Fireball sprue (dunno why mine had some parts nipped off), Raccoon sprue and Prowler sprue

Camo card front (old)

Camo card back (old)

Instructions (same for both old and new)

Box front (new Ma.K boxing)

Box back (new Ma.K boxing)

Camo card front (new)

Camo card back (new)

Decals (new)

SAFS Mk.III Raptor (WAVE)

SAFS Mk.III Raptor (WAVE)

This is a WAVE issue of the MkIII Raptor, basically using the old SAFS Nitto molds plus injection version of the Modelkasten Raptor/Snake eye/Fireball SG parts together with new decals and camo card. There are two versions of the Raptor released by WAVE, one containing resin parts from Modelkasten (series 00.28), and the other cheaper version containing injection molded parts. This one reviewed here is the injection version (series 00.02). I've yet gotten my hands on the resin version, which is rare even on YAJ and reaches ridiculous (oops, no offence) prices.

I really wanted this kit when I started this Ma.K hobby and I was not disappointed by the contents even though it was quite expensive. With the recent rumor/news of new Hasegawa releases of the Snake eye and possibly the Raptor, this item has all but disappeared from YAJ.
Well, we shall see...

Sorry, no decal photos as I've misplaced mine for the moment. I will put it in once I find it! :)

Details

Scale: 1/20
Type of material : khaki injection molds
Number of parts: SAFS sprues + 2 new sprues
Decals: yes
Instructions: yes
Overall quality: Very good
Overall accuracy: Accurate
Date of release: Sept2003
Release price: 2600 yen
Current Running price in YAJ: 4500 - 6650 yen

Pictures

box

contents

Raptor's two additional sprues, the one of the left is the same sprue as the Snake eye and Firecall SG released by WAVE as well at the same period of time, the one on the right holds the cool pilot head with visor, new leg parts, Raptor hatch and rear armor.

instructions and camo card (front)

instructions and camo card (back)

Added:
decals (at last!)

Panzer Aufkalarungs T.W-47/N2 Kuster (Modelkasten)

This is the night fighting version of the Krote, created by Modelkasten using Krote sprues(all 4 of them excluding the mechanic) plus added resin parts for the armor as well as some sensor on the turret. There are also additional leg parts and smoke grenade launchers. I personally like this version better than the original Krote, probably due to the additional armor which makes more sense and the grenade launchers.
This box is labeled as series 00.25. Strangely this one I bought does not have the camo card.

Details

Scale: 1/20
Type of material : khaki resin (Krote parts) + yellow resin
Number of parts: 5 sprues + yellow resin
Decals: yes
Instructions: yes
Overall quality: Very good, little bit of flash on the resin
Overall accuracy: Accurate
Date of release: June 2000
Release price: 7500 yen
Current Running price in YAJ: around 10000 yen

Pictures

box

contents

resin parts

decals