This year really feels like it's SNK’s moment, with the new NEOGEO AES+ launching in November and a year-long Metal Slug anniversary catching the eye, which is why SNK has announced that, in partnership with Wave Corporation, it's reissuing the 1/24 scale SV-001/I model kit to mark the 30th anniversary of Metal Slug.
There aren't many video game vehicles as instantly recognisable as the SV-001. The little tank from Metal Slug somehow manages to look cute, tough and completely indestructible all at once, and nearly 30 years after it first rolled onto NEOGEO arcade machines, it's getting another chance to sit on your shelf, this time as a buildable plastic model. If the kit looks familiar, that's because it first appeared in 2015, followed by another production run in 2017, both of which proved popular with collectors. Now it's back again, and honestly it's easy to see why.
