Today’s spotlight: the Omitsu B-Club garage kit from the early 1990s.
B-Club was Bandai’s line of garage/resin kits, designed for hardcore hobbyists who enjoyed building and painting figures from scratch. Unlike mass-produced toys, these came as unpainted resin parts with instructions — making them both a challenge and a rare collectible today.
B-Club was a hobby / modeling “house magazine” and subdivision of Bandai focused on garage kits, resin cast parts, and enthusiast modeling content.
It launched in November 1985 and ran until 1998, printing a total 148 issues.
In its early years, B-Club emphasized scratch builds, conversions, dioramas, reader submissions, and new resin kits (often as upgrades or add-ons to existing Bandai/plastic kits).
Over time, it broadened into general anime, manga features, and promotional content, as modeling became more niche.
B-Club also operated a physical B-Club Shop in Shibuya (opened circa 1989), which served as a retail and event space for garage kits and Bandai hobby merch until it closed in the late ’90s.
After ceasing publication, many of its staff and spirit continued into Dengeki Hobby and Bandai’s newer hobby divisions.
This particular kit features Omitsu, the sweet and slightly ditzy tea-shop owner. She’s not a character who typically gets merchandise — which makes this kit especially unique among Samurai Pizza Cats collectibles.
A lot of other Tatsunoko-sanctioned garage kits have been made by artists over the years, but they’re hard to find. Only a handful of kits (B-club or otherwise) were made for the series, but Omitsu’s stands out because of how little official merchandise she’s ever received.
