====== Heavy Armoured Fighting Suit 'Jerry' ======

  * Manufacturer: Nitto
  * Part number: Ma.K Series 10
  * Year of production: 1998
  * Scale: 1/20	
  * Series: Maschinen Krieger / ZbV 3000 / SF3D
  * Kit type: Multimedia kit (plastic, rubber piping, brass, etc), some movement possible
  * In-universe role: Heavily Armoured Walker, //Mercenary forces//
  * Build date: ???

I bought this kit from [[http://hlj.com|Hobby Link Japan]] in the late 90's or early 2000's - intending to use it as a donor kit to bash up some home-brewed biped mecha for some tabletop wargames I was playing at the time.

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===== Background =====

In-universe, the 'Jerry' is supposed to represent an early attempt by the mercenary forces to produce a viable heavy fighting machine whilst they are perfecting their //Super Armoured Fighting Suits// (SAFS) to combat the enemy //Strahl Democratic Republic// forces who have existing forces of tanks and heavy weapons. It represents a stop-gap design until the smaller, man-sized powered suits and man-carried laser weapons evolved to a point of practicality.

This was the first Maschinen Krieger design I bought, in the late 90's or around the year 2000. I didn't know anything about Ma.K at the time, but was searching for walker/mecha proxies for board games/tabletop gaming that I was playing at the time. It has sat, unbuilt, for at least 20 years....

===== Box Contents =====

In 2021 I finally opened the box which had sat in my big store of unbuilt models to take a look at what was inside:

   * Instruction manual
   * Painting guide / information card
   * 1x Waterslide decal sheet
   * 5x Plastic part sprues
     * 3x Main body parts, in green
     * 1x Pilot figure, in beige
     * 1x Canopy/sensor cover, in clear
   * 3x Bags of multimedia parts
     * 1x Bag of brass and plastic rods
     * 1x Bag of wiring, thin tubing, nylon spacers/washers and screws
     * 1x Bag of flexible rubber hose

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I can understand why a lot of these early Ma.K models by Nitto are so sought after - the quality of the overall //experience// is first class;

   * Individually bagged components
   * High quality cardstock reference card and painting guide
   * Clear, large format manual
   * Loads of extra multimedia bits (brass pipe, wire, mesh, rubber tubing etc.)
   * Crisp, clear waterslide decals

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