Heavy Armoured Fighting Suit 'Jerry'

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 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.

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