{"id":28491,"date":"2026-01-04T22:37:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tristanforsyth.com\/blog\/?p=28491"},"modified":"2026-01-04T22:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:37:49","slug":"okey-dokey-ive-been-tinkering-away-on-my-ma-k-fan-site-again-and-its-finally-at-a-point-where-its-worth-sharing-my-progress-over-the-past-few-weeks-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tristanforsyth.com\/blog\/okey-dokey-ive-been-tinkering-away-on-my-ma-k-fan-site-again-and-its-finally-at-a-point-where-its-worth-sharing-my-progress-over-the-past-few-weeks-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Okey dokey\u2026  I\u2019ve been tinkering away on my Ma.K fan site again, and it\u2019s finally at a point where it\u2019s worth sharing my progress.  Over the past few weeks, I\u2019ve been cataloguing kits, building a small training sim (because apparently a 16-bit side-scroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\">\n  <img\n    src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55022768946_91089f2d59_b.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Okey dokey\u2026  I\u2019ve been tinkering away on my Ma.K fan site again, and it\u2019s finally at a point where it\u2019s worth sharing my progress.  Over the past few weeks, I\u2019ve been cataloguing kits, building a small training sim (because apparently a 16-bit side-scroll\"\n    loading=\"lazy\"\n    decoding=\"async\"\n    referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\n    style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\n  ><figcaption>\n    Okey dokey\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been tinkering away on my Ma.K fan site again, and it\u2019s finally at a point where it\u2019s worth sharing my progress.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks, I\u2019ve been cataloguing kits, building a small training sim (because apparently a 16-bit side-scroller was necessary&#8230;. it\u2019s the vibe!), and expanding suit and pilot lore inspired by the old Nitto box backs &#8211; those little fragments that always hinted at a much bigger world.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m currently working through the camo cards as well. Not translating them (my Japanese is non-existent, and others have already done that far better than I), but using them as a springboard to expand stories around the suits and the pilots.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very much a world-building \/ archival exercise rather than an authoritative take: fragmentary by design, meant to sit alongside existing lore rather than replace it.<\/p>\n<p>Would genuinely love feedback from my fellow Ma.K heads.<\/p>\n<p>tristanforsyth.com\/mak.  #plasticoddities #maschinenkriegerzbv3000 #maschinenkrieger<br \/>\n    \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tristanforsyth\/55022768946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View on Flickr<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okey dokey\u2026 I\u2019ve been tinkering away on my Ma.K fan site again, and it\u2019s finally at a point where it\u2019s worth sharing my progress. Over the past few weeks, I\u2019ve been cataloguing kits, building a small training sim (because apparently a 16-bit side-scroller was necessary&#8230;. it\u2019s the vibe!), and expanding suit and pilot lore inspired &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tristanforsyth.com\/blog\/okey-dokey-ive-been-tinkering-away-on-my-ma-k-fan-site-again-and-its-finally-at-a-point-where-its-worth-sharing-my-progress-over-the-past-few-weeks-iv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Okey dokey\u2026  I\u2019ve been tinkering away on my Ma.K fan site again, and it\u2019s finally at a point where it\u2019s worth sharing my progress.  Over the past few weeks, I\u2019ve been cataloguing kits, building a small training sim (because apparently a 16-bit side-scroll&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,11,10],"class_list":["post-28491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flickr","tag-ifttt","tag-instagram"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tristanforsyth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tristanforsyth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tristanforsyth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tristanforsyth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tristanforsyth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tristanforsyth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28492,"href":"https:\/\/tristanforsyth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28491\/revisions\/28492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tristanforsyth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tristanforsyth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tristanforsyth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}