Ricardo Salame’s SAFS Company GIL

This plastic kit is designed by Kow Yokoyama. The SAFS suit serves as a platform for many variants in the MAK universe. The kit is well moulded, arms and legs are fully posable, and it comes with a reasonably detailed cockpit with two pilots. Nitto first produced in December 1983. Kow Yokoyama’s SF3D Original designs, were renamed MA.K. ZbV3000. They became very popular through a long-running photo series in the magazine Hobby Japan.

They were produced as plastic kits of unmatched quality by NITTO Japan and were the first major science fiction kits released that included etched metal parts, springs, pieces of wire and decent decals. The attention to detail and moulding quality was excellent, finally elevating the science fiction kit to the level of kits offered by Tamiya and Hasegawa.

Ricardo Salame