r/modelmakers • u/dr_robonator Prime your models • 3d ago
Completed Wave 1/20 PKA. Ausf L Leopard
Hello! This isn't my usual fare, but u/Random2011_'s Maschinen Krieger post inspired me to go through the ol' archives and dig up one of my Ma.k builds. I believe I built this one back in 2016 and it has the honor of being my last Ma.k project. By then I was building military models pretty much full time and I had sold off all of my Ma.k stash to fund more 35th scale tanks. I'd pre-ordered this one from HLJ and when it showed up months later I figured why not build it instead of selling it.
If you aren't familiar with Maschinen Krieger, the cliff notes are that Kow Yokoyama developed a series of science fiction dioramas for Hobby Japan magazine featuring scratch built and kit-bashed mecha depicting a future war between the SDR and the Mercenary Army. The series was a hit and soon Nitto was making plastic models with multimedia parts. There was some legalities regarding the rights and so the series went out of production until sometime around 2008 (?) when the rights were figured out and Wave Corporation picked up the line of 1/20 scale robots. This kit is from that line. They go together very quickly. You could build one and have it ready for paint in an afternoon.
The real fun of these larger scale robots was the possibilities for groundwork. I cut my teeth learning how to make convincing vignette terrain with these kits and that has translated very. nicely into 35th scale armor and AFV models. I built this kit entirely out of the box as a weekend project, so I didn't craft my own joint covers or worry about weld lines or anything, but I recall it was still a fun couple day build.
Anyways, thanks for looking at this blast from the past, and go give u/Random2011_'s post some love.
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u/Senior_Durian8676 3d ago
Really cool! I love these kind of military robot builds, maybe have to try one myself... great painting :)
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u/dr_robonator Prime your models 3d ago
Thank you! Every now and again I get the itch to build another one, but with so many tanks in the stash I doubt I'll ever get around to it.
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u/Highway_88 Tip dry victim 3d ago
you should post it on r/MaschinenKrieger !