Galifreyscall
Active Member
Last week I scored a garage kit PKD on ebay for about $60; today it arrived in the mail and it's only made me more curious.
It arrived in an unmarked manila box, and opening it up produced a blaster, misc. separately cast parts, and a stapled-together booklet. The "Steyr" booklet includes brief instructions and an article from an unnamed magazine comparing different blaster kits on the market at the time (love these glimpses into the past!) which does include a very brief mention of a "Steyr Blaster" available to buy from "SF Squared".
The blaster itself has a decent amount of detail, though most of its proportions are slightly incorrect, and it also seems to twist slightly as if the mold wasn't properly braced; the quirks of a 30+ yr old magazine kit
The receiver has all the correct markings and serial number, the magazine is slightly damaged but to me it almost looks like it could say "223 Rem"? It's about 20% smaller than normal, which is apparent when I placed it alongside an Anders kit I'm building.
I consulted this video by asavage on his various PKD replicas, and the details seem to line up with a replica shown at 16:38 which he describes as if he built it; I'm hesitant to say what I have is his sculpt on account of the fact Adam says it did not sell well at all, though I would love if he were to weigh in. I'm at a loss here, this kind of information isn't the kind that gets archived on the internet, so anyone who would have been in the scene before my time would know far better than I. Any information is good information, so thank you for looking!
-Galifreyscall
It arrived in an unmarked manila box, and opening it up produced a blaster, misc. separately cast parts, and a stapled-together booklet. The "Steyr" booklet includes brief instructions and an article from an unnamed magazine comparing different blaster kits on the market at the time (love these glimpses into the past!) which does include a very brief mention of a "Steyr Blaster" available to buy from "SF Squared".
The blaster itself has a decent amount of detail, though most of its proportions are slightly incorrect, and it also seems to twist slightly as if the mold wasn't properly braced; the quirks of a 30+ yr old magazine kit
The receiver has all the correct markings and serial number, the magazine is slightly damaged but to me it almost looks like it could say "223 Rem"? It's about 20% smaller than normal, which is apparent when I placed it alongside an Anders kit I'm building.I consulted this video by asavage on his various PKD replicas, and the details seem to line up with a replica shown at 16:38 which he describes as if he built it; I'm hesitant to say what I have is his sculpt on account of the fact Adam says it did not sell well at all, though I would love if he were to weigh in. I'm at a loss here, this kind of information isn't the kind that gets archived on the internet, so anyone who would have been in the scene before my time would know far better than I. Any information is good information, so thank you for looking!
-Galifreyscall
