Welcome to Krueger's Krieger
SF3D was a Sci Fi plastic model series which ran during the mid 1980s. The series was created by artist Kow Yokoyama with Kunitaka Imai and Hiroshi Ichimura. SF3D was introduced in the Hobby Japan Magazine as a special monthly installment of scratch built models. Nitto, a small Japanese company picked up the rights to make plastic kits of Kow's designs. The models produced were very high quality with crisp molding, fine details and they included copper rod, brass tube, spring coils, and photo-etched parts. They were one of the first multimedia kits produced. The series ended after a few years. In 1998, the series was reintroduced by Nitto and Kow under the new name Maschinen Krieger Zbv 3000. Or simply MaK.
The main focus of this site is the Ma.K. 3000 model. This site will include tips, reviews and a gallery of my builds.
AFS F(B)
I built it as a way to honor Francesco Benedettini and all he has done to inspire me over the many years he has been building MaK. I "borrowed" many of his unique details and tried to come up with something that looked like his style without copying it. I also wanted this build to incorporate many iconic MaK details.
PKA Ausf K Ketzer - Wave Kit
Wave has recently released the PKA Ausf K Ketzer. The Ketzer is an improved version of the Konrad with enhanced engine silencer for clandestine operations. The Konrad first appeared along with the Gucker and Kuster on Kow's web site and then in a following issue of Model Graphixs. The Ketzer has not been released as a kit before so it made sence that this PKA varient would be the first release from Wave's new Ausf G/K tooling. The engineering is very good on this kit and I built it more or less out of the box with a few changes.
1/35 Nutcracker
I was very excited when it was announced that Hasegawa was going to release a 1/35 Nutcracker. I've been accumulating the donor kits for a scratch built 1/20 version for a while, but the sheer size of the finished model has been deterrent. The Hasegawa kit is highly detailed with quite a few tiny parts that will require care when gluing. The basic kit builds up very nicely right out of the box, but I added a few minor details to the basic build and created an in-service diorame to help depict the size of the thing. I had a lot of fun with all the 1/35 detail bits. It was so easy to add parts here and there. In 1/20 scale, almost of that would have to be scratchbuilt.
LT5 Kncka
The Kncka is an original design from a garage kit maker that goes by Junk Tank Rock. Same as the Taco Beetle in the Gallery. These resin models are sold only at the Japanese Wonder Festival. Dr. Tak was fortunate enough to pick one of these up for me a couple of year ago and I had been itching to build it but could never get it started. The original model is intented to be a 1/35 scale one man walking tank but even with stretching things in the realm of scifi, I could never understand how a guy was suppose to fit in the thing at that scale. I decided to change it to 1/48 scale and everything fell into place.
