Originally released 1983-84 1. STRONGBOX (“Bacchus” is a mistranslation) 2. SCOPEDOG 3. BRUTISHDOG 4. STANDING TORTOISE 5. SNAPPING TURTLE 6. MARSHYDOG 7. DIVING BEETLE 8. BERSERGA 9. STRIKEDOG 10. STANDING TURTLE 11. RED SHOULDER CUSTOM 12. SCOPEDOG ROUND MOVER TYPE Downform and Detail up Scopedogs, 1996 These kits were augmented...

When Armored Trooper Votoms arrived in April 1983, the anime plamo (plastic model) boom was in full bloom. Ignited by Mobile Suit Gundam in 1979/80, it took off like nothing seen before. Anime-based model kits weren’t new, but the “real robot” movement was a perfect storm of mecha design and...

by Kouji Akimoto In April 1988, a curious manga anthology titled Cyber Comix made its debut. 47 issues were published through November 1992 with a pedigree seen nowhere else. It was a potpourri of original SF/fantasy and spinoffs of anime that leaned heavily into mecha. Managed by Gainax and published...

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Both of these interviews were recorded during a Votoms event held at Sunrise Studio on November 14, 1997 Writer Soji Yoshikawa It’s not Evangelion, but I think it was ahead of its time Interviewer: Please tell us what made you decide to do Votoms. Yoshikawa: I worked on Mr. Tomino’s...

1/24 Blue Knight (vinyl kit) 1/24 Shadow Flare (vinyl kit) 1/24 Zerberus (resin kit) 1/24 Testa Rossa (resin kit) Wave products 1/35 metal figure set 1/35 Blue Knight (resin kit) 1/35 Funny Devil (resin kit) 1/35 Warrior 1 (resin kit) 1/35 Testa Rossa (resin kit) 1/35 Zerberus (resin kit) Full...

All of these are 1/35 resin kits Blue Knight Scopedog Calamity Dog green version Calamity Dog red version Funny Devil Warrior 1 Shadow Flare Berserga Super Execution Testa Rossa Zerberus Continue to next gallery Back to article

Presented alphabetically by manufacturer 1/6 Kain McDougal (resin kit), A•TO•RI•EX 1/8 Ronni Shatrait (maker unknown) 1/35 Funny Devil (resin kit), AAS/Junk Box 1/35 Wheel Dog (resin kit), AAS/Junk Box 1/35 Grey Berserga (resin kit), AAS/Junk Box 1/35 Iron Man 1 (resin kit), AAS/Junk Box 1/35 Death Messenger (resin kit), AAS/Junk...

all of these are PVC plastic, approximately 1/48 scale Set 1 packaging Blue Knight Zerberus Testa Rossa Funny Devil Shadow Flare Death Messenger Set 2 packaging Berserga Super Execution Calamity Dog green version Octova Warrior 1 (two versions) Rectioneter Rising Tortoise Continue to next gallery Back to article

All of these are 1/48 scale injection-molded plastic Set 1 packaging (see an unboxing video here) Blue Knight Death Messenger Shadow Flare Set 2 packaging (see an unboxing video here) Berserga Super Execution Zerberus Wheel Dog Set 3 packaging (see an unboxing video here) Testa Rossa Calamity Dog green version...

1/24 Kain McDougal Early box style for 1/24 models 1/24 Blue Knight 1/24 Calamity Dog green version 1/24 Calamity Dog red version 1/24 Funny Devil 1/24 Rectioneter 1/24 Shadow Flare 1/24 Berserga Super Execution 1/24 Testa Rossa 1/24 Testa Rossa, Votoms Fair 2 edition 1/24 Warrior 1 1/24 Warrior 1...

All of these are 1/60 resin kits with metal parts Blue Knight Clever Camel Calamity Dog green version Calamity Dog red version Satellite FSX-1 Satellite FSX-2 Howling Bear Grabar Grabar Knobby Gazelle Normal Dog Pot Belly Rising Tortoise Shadow Flare Testa Rossa Warrior 1 Zerberus Octova Fear Dumbbell Continue to...

All of these are PVC plastic, somewhere between 1/35 and 1/24 scale Blue Knight Berserga Super Execution Death Messenger Funny Devil Funny Devil metallic version Calamity Dog set Scopedog, Blue Knight version Shadow Flare Warrior 1 Triple pack, weathered versions Zerberus Zerberus metallic version DX Zerberus (larger size)    ...

1/24 Shadow Flare 1/24 Zerberus 1/24 Testa Rossa (see a modelbuilding video here) 1/35 Blue Knight 1/35 Death Messenger 1/35 Funny Devil 1/35 Grey Berserga 1/35 Berserga Super Execution See more photos of these kits here Back to article

Armored Trooper Votoms had a built-in advantage when it came to storytelling opportunities: enormous scale. With the entire Astragius Galaxy as a backdrop, it could literally go anywhere. And it didn’t take long to figure that out; six months after the TV series ended, the first spinoff appeared. I discovered...

Naochika Morishita Artworks, Steel Man 森下直親画集 鋼人 129 pages, color and b&w Futabasha, 2007 Naochika Morishita Artworks 2, Steel Demon 森下直親画集2 鋼鬼 130 pages, color and b&w Futabasha, 2017 Follow the artist on Twitter here Back to the hub

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