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I saw one on ebay a year back.

IIRC the story is not only did it come out just as Warzone died, someone dropped the mold.

I'm kind of surprised no one is recasting it or making a credible rip-off of the design.

Yeah but the plastics use an odd plastic that most glues don't work on. And while they are multipart they are still only good for 1 pose.


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Kilkrazy wrote:It looks to me like a close rip-off of the Miyazaki Akuyaku no.1 design.

A lot of suspicious similarities



Both have the two AA guns in the back and a raisable tower for targeting. Not to mention tracks and turret shape. I'd say WZ probably took inspriation from Miyazaki, after all his aircraft and vehicles always had the same sort of WWI, WWII look they were going for.

Well this might be parallel development then.

As far as I can tell (and any of the better Japanese speakers here can correct me) Bad Guy No 1 came from a sketchbook Miyazaki did in 1997.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%AE%AE%E5%B4%8E%E9%A7%BF%E3%81%AE%E9%9B%91%E6%83%B3%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88-%E5%AE%AE%E5%B4%8E-%E9%A7%BF/dp/4499226775/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258257289&sr=8-1

Tasca's 1/72 "Akuyaku Ichigou" (or Bad Guy Number 1.) They took Hayao Miyazaki's fanciful imaginary tank and made a kit.
This tank has been popular among many Japanese fans ever since it first appeared in Model Graphix in the early 1980's.

Well that would be that wouldn't it.

GMMStudios wrote:WHAT???

Where do you get those pigs?

PLEASE tell me you can get them without buying the tank.

That is my next army.

Assuming I get 2 for Christmas you can have mine.


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Ghidorah wrote:Well, it seems like it at first glance, I suppose.
It seems that Model Graphix is a Japanese modeling magazine. The oldest date/issue I could find was from Aug. '88, but there was only a single pic of the cover and a sentence about the contents. So, without exhausting myself searching, I have decided to just take the guy's word for it.

It's older than that, it was the original home of Miyazaiki's Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa (Nausicaa and the Valley of Wind).

I have my 2 Bad Guys but haven't started on them yet. THey're intimidating models.