Now, before you ask, I've never seen, let alone read, any of the Crusher Joe books or anime, so I don't know the first thing about it.
Upon arrival, I found the kit to be just a bit too clunky to truly inspire. However, it seems to be Hasegawa's entry into the no paint, no glue, but still a decent model arena, and that can mean only one thing: it's blitzfodder
Now, I may be the only one here (but I doubt it) that still has nightmares about horrible metallic grey plastic. The instructions indicate the grey parts should be just that. So why, this one time it would have actually been good, wasn't this sprue done in old fashioned metallic? Oh well, I have a airbrush..
On the flip side, the inclusion of clear and tinted canopies is nice, as are the nicely detailed figures.
I'll be doing this one in bare plastic and spot painting mode, as the kit is clearly intended to be built. We'll see if Hasegawa can do as good as Bandai for this stuff.
As usual, I'll be starting very late this evening with a quick blast of varnish, primer, and in this case metallic grey, and then burning through 8+ hours of blitz time snoring
Not even remotely an issue for a traditional kit of course, but I don't think that's what they were shooting for. I also expect to be doing a lot of touch-up, where differently coloured edges show. I just hope that will be limeited to gunmetal; colour matching the white or blue would get very tricky indeed.
