Also included is a color section with character bios and history, also mostly in Japanese. If you've built a model or two before, the diagrams are self-explanatory. All text is in Japanese, but that should not be a problem. Instructions are the typical exploded diagrams, broken into 9 assembly steps. These are in the PVC BanDai uses for all figures in their kits, which means it's soft, pliable and. Two smaller (1/72?) figures of Spike are also provided, one standing and the other flying the ship. Three large figures (alledgedly 1/24 scale) are provided, one each of Spike, Faye and Jet. The kit features folding wings, removable cockpit pod, and external ordnance (though the ship is usually seen sporting just the hugely phallic plasma gun and a pair of machine guns). There are no ejector pin marks or sinkholes any place where they'll be visible on the completed model, no flash and minimal mold seams to clean up. Detail is rather simplistic, but matches what's seen on screen (it is a cartoon ship, after all). There are two sprues of red plastic parts, one of black and another of clear, two trees with figures and two of polycaps and assorted joints. Inside the colorful box is a typical BanDai kit - impeccibly molded, simple to assemble and fairly well detailed. Oddly enough for a kit released in 2000, it's no longer in production, and I had to look far and wide to find one (thanks Ledon!). BanDai's is the first injected kit of any of the ships (the Swordfish and Faye's Redtail were released in resin by Club M) - and so far, the only one. one of the oddest designs I've seen on screen. ^ Instructions are logical and easy enough to follow.Įach of the three main characters has a fast, heavily armed personal ship in which they track down their bounties. ^ Faye is gonna have back problems later in life. It's the story of the adventures of the spaceship Bebop and its crew of bounty hunters ("Cowboys", in the slang of the future): Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Faye "Untouchable Shrew Woman" Valentine, Ed the hacker and Ein, the super- intelligent dog. 2071), where earth's population has spread out into space. Overall Rating: 9 - simple enough to do in a weekend, and definitely something you don't see every dayĬowboy Bebop is yet another anime set in a future (A.D. MSRP: 2000 JPY ($17.00 USD) available from House of Anime Instructions: Fold-out pictoral assembly diagrams, plus color refernce photos and paint guideĭetail: 8 - sharp and plentiful enough, given the subject Parts: 80 styrene (red, black, clear), 17 PVC, plus polycaps īanDai's Cowboy Bebop Swordfish II Preview Starship Modeler - BanDai's Cowboy Bebop Swordfish II Preview Kit preview of BanDai's Cowboy Bebop Swordfish II.
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