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WHO WERE THE RESIN PUNKS?

In the earliest days of the hobby, passionate fans used crude techniques and material like metal and resin to make model kits based on their favorite subjects. These subjects were not the same things commonly seen in plastic models (an industry then in the midst of the gunpla boom) but instead things like figures, original designs, and sci-fi monsters.

Throughout the 1980s, mom-and-pop hobby shops turned into garage kit manufacturers, big name companies got involved, and the hobby picked up the slack after the gunpla boom burst in 1985. Garage kits became increasingly sophisticated and complex, subject matter changed, and the modeling industry would be changed forever.

Publication History

Resin Punks began as a side project years ago in the early days of Zimmerit and eventually turned into a sprawling text that attempted to document the garage kit industry of the 1980s. Drawing from period sources and translated interviews and articles, I had originally hoped to publish it as some sort of book although it never quite reached the point of feeling “complete.” This was many years before Gainazine. Since then I occasionally pulled articles or supplementary text from this for the site and our other books, some of which you’ve probably read.

Availability

Our ‘zines are available first to our supporters on Patreon. Folks who back at us the highest tier receive a copy and a special Patreon-exclusive supplement. After that the book will be available direct from us at garagekit.club or from select specialty retailers in the US, UK, and Canada.

Additional Details & Credits

Resin Punks is 40 pages, 5.5″x8.5″, and includes both color and black & white pages. Writing and layout by Sean O’Mara. Translation by Matt Schley and Maud Duke. Photos of General Products circa 1989 by William Smith. Back cover by Alex Connolly. Renzo Adler came up with the name and provided design and distribution support.

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