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This model is special for two reasons. 1 it is the first model I didn't buy for myself (Jul hooked me up). 2 It is the first model I built with the terror I was boarding this summer, Chancey. I was very excited to do some building this summer. However we had a kitten that we were taking care of. So I wasn't too keen on playing with knives with a kitten jumping into my lap on a regular basis.

Figure 1. The gold standard

Figure 2. Not good for ninja fights

Figure 3. Backseat Driver

Figure 4. Boing!

Old School

I thought it was pretty cool to find a zoid that had a gold pilot. The oldest zoids I remember, were windup models, that had gold pilots. The only ones I remember seeing in person were the ones that Nick had. I don't think he really remembers having them though. The old zoids were primarily dinosaur models. Grey and blue plastic, with a transparent cockpits. Generally very cool at the time. Now with the tag 'retro' this Pteramander, is pretty cool again.

This model has some cool and relatively unique parts. Happily the instructions came in English for this model. So any difficulty assembling the unfamiliar parts were due to either my usual ineptitude, or the kitten running off with pieces. The wings, are pretty rare in today's zoids. They open and close as the model walks. They are also great to flip out and defend yourself from small kittens. However they are not good for ninja fights.

Additionally, the Zoid has a rear pilot. Always good to have a second gold man to hang out and make sure that there is someone else to work with when piloting a large plastic model. You never know when an evil kitten will show up and try to knock your block off!

One other thing that was unique about this zoid, was that it used a spring as one of the parts. I was quite confused to see a spring among the bags of parts that were included. I had a rather tough time keeping young Mr. Chancey away from the spring. I had to do quite a bit of spraying with his water bottle to keep he from wandering off with parts. The spring was his favorite.

Progress (all done in one day)

Flap flap flap...

Sooo...

I finally got it done. I thought it was pretty cool that I had my first flying zoid completed. But now that I think about it, I don't know that I would really want to fly around in something that had holes in its wings. Would that work? I don't imagine it would so much.

Good thing that this bird didn't have solid wings. Chancey would be more likely to break something important. All in all, the kiddo was pretty rough on it all. As you can see the ol bird does some good flapping. It would have been a lot better if I could have taken some time to build this. The best thing about the zoids, is that building them gives me time to relax. Oh well.. it's been months since El Gato Diablo left town. At least I got a good page out of it!

Little Monsters

Here they are, the terror and the Pteramander. Luckily they both came out of it with only minor injuries.

Say Cheese	No, cheese
Ok how about salmon?	There we go.

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