Ma.K Melusine - Wave Corporation
To this day I still recall the morning, nearly 40 years ago, walking into a hobby shop with my father and being drawn to a beige/sandy coloured box sitting on the shelf. All the other boxes had prints and more or less looked the same, but this one, in the recycled looking card stock just looked different. It prompted me to look at it and there, on the front of the box was something I’d never see before. It was the A.F.S. or Armoured Fighting Suit from NITTO and part of the SF3D universe (Later to become known as Maschinen Krieger or Ma.K due to licencing issues and the like).
Things only got better once I got home and opened the box. There was a mesh screen, springs and wires. It was my first experience with a multi-media kit and I have been hooked on the franchise ever since.
Full build and paint review over at The Modelling News
I have no doubt most of you will be familiar with the line and the basic premise around the machinery and look of the franchise, but to briefly recap; The Ma.K universe is the brainchild of Japanese artist and sculptor Kow Yokoyama and began in the early 80’s. The universe is set after a nuclear war in 2807, where the majority of the Earth’s population is wiped out. Fifty-two years after the war, a research team from an interstellar union called the Galactic Federation is sent to Earth and discovers that the planet's natural environment has restored itself. The Federation decides to repopulate the planet and sends over colonists to the surface. Cities and towns are eventually reformed over the next 20 years, but this growth attracts the attention of criminals, military deserters, and other lawless elements who wanted to hide on Earth--away from the authorities. A few militias protect the colonists, but the new interlopers often defeat them.