Here is my latest Japan SF curiosity, from around 1980 I think. From good old Aoshima.
According to some eBay listings for the kit, it’s called “Red Hawk Yamato #3: Major Change.” Major change is right!
It’s the Battleship Yamato in one of its many Red Hawk SF incarnations, from an Anime program I assume (?), but mutated into some ungodly Formula 1 racing car.
Of course, the scale of the automobile would be about 1:24, while the scale of the battleship is more like 1:400, so the whole thing is just an impossible concept vehicle. Which is why I love Japan SF: they did not shy away from the impossible. Enjoy!
Rob C
USA
Rob C
USA
That is an amazing model Rob! What a fiddley build it must have been! I've never seen any Yamato anime but would recognise the ship anywhere, even when its a car! Fabulous and thanks for sharing. Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteYes this sucker took me a lot longer than I would have liked - and there were a couple of near-disasters - but in the end it came out about as I expected. Possibly the weirdest thing I've ever built.
DeleteThe Space Battleship Yamato (Called StarBlazers in the US) anime fan site OurStarblazers/com has an article on these knock-off kits.
ReplyDeleteLink here https://ourstarblazers.com/vault/209/
Yamato was massive in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s and there have been recent TV series remakes in the last few years (Yamato 2199 and Yamato 2202. Yamato 2205 is due in the next year or so).
Thanks for the link, there were SO MANY permutations of the Space Yamato genre! I even have one of them, the Procyon Ginga Machine, which I had no idea was part of this wide-ranging series. I'll take pix and send off to Woodsy in case he wants to post it.
DeleteThanks for the info and the links Yorkie. That's an amazing site of those kits, I'd no idea there were so many Yamato creations!
ReplyDeleteI'll be only too pleased to Zigg.
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