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P.K.A. HO "Heinrich" (1985)

PKA HO "Heinrich" by Nitto - 1

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SCALE: 1/20

INITIAL RELEASE: 1985

MEDIUM: Polystyrene

RARITY: (3)

 

PKA HO "Heinrich" by Nitto - 2

 

PKA HO "Heinrich" by Nitto - 3

PKA HO "Heinrich" by Nitto - 4

 

PKA HO "Heinrich" by Nitto - 5

 

ABOUT THE DESIGN

ABOUT THE KIT

The SF3D collection was arguably the most ambitious series of original sci-fi model designs ever produced.  Based on a series of photo-illustrated articles by Kow Yokoyama, Hiroshi Ichimura and Kunitaka Imai that ran in Hobby Japan magazine from 1982 to 1985, the models were of various "battlesuits" and fighting vehicles used in an imagined war between rebellious colonists and a fascist government for control over a war-ravaged Earth several centuries hence.  All the SF3D kits had a not-so-subtle Teutonic style to them, as if Nazi Germany had been able to extend WWII into the 21st Century.

The "Henrich" was an armored battlesuit that afforded its operator with an unusually wide field of vision thanks to its dome-like cockpit.

Nitto's SF3D kits were all excellently engineered and molded, and came complete with brass-etched parts, springs and rubber tubing for extra detail.  Due to a legal squabble, the kits went out of production in 1986, but were subsequently released by designer Kow Yokoyama under the name 'Ma.K. ZbV3000 Maschinen Krieger' in 1999.

This Heinrich was built from an original 1980s issue.

 

PKA HO "Heinrich" by Nitto - Box Art

Original Box Art

 

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