Bespel 74 Posted October 28, 2022 Report Share Posted October 28, 2022 This spaceship, the Gataman-Zan appeared in a 1980s Japanese anime 'Space Runaway Ideon'. I can't claim to have ever seen the show, or even heard of it before building this kit, just one of several ships from the series. I bought this 1/2600 kit for a pittance from a bargain bin at Scale Model World in Telford in 2019, the last I attended before the pandemic spoilt our fun. The kit was quite simple, being obviously designed with kids in mind, but quite satisfying nevertheless. It was good too to paint a spaceship that wasn't white, or in several shades of grey-blue like most of the big names in spacecraft, Star Trek/Wars/1999/2001, et al. Inspired by the rather fancy box art, I was tempted at first to go seriously Chris Foss on it, but that would have been a major eye-straining chore, the kit being so small, so this was the best I could manage. Unfortunately the colour has been washed out a little in these pictures, the actual model being a somewhat richer ochre colour. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Grunhertz 17,498 Posted October 28, 2022 Report Share Posted October 28, 2022 Nice 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gorby 21,725 Posted October 29, 2022 Report Share Posted October 29, 2022 Never seen or heard of it before but it looks good. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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