 Sian wrote: |
Great idea for a build! So you're going to use realistic scale armor techniques on it? You of course could have picked a goofier looking mobile suit for the build (Like a Zock or a Zakrello) I look forward to seeing what you do with it! |
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Well, the Zaku is also a more central design - as such it's been revised a bunch of times over the years and as a result it still has credibility among the fanbase. The same's not really true of designs like the Zock or Zakurello. So it's kind of the difference between taking something that's cool back to its humble origins, as opposed to taking something that is and always has been goofy...
Plus I'm kind of a Zaku fan anyway. This build will ultimately be part of a 1:100 scale Zaku line-up... It seems like a good way to represent the old kit - simultaneously give it a good, straightforward build and also emphasize its ridiculousness by (apparently) taking it very seriously.
As for the techniques I'll be using - I haven't really built the AFV modeling skills yet, but the "real type" look is mostly all about the basic color scheme and the decals anyway... At least, that's what the kit's paint guide was like. But I did give the model an overall "cast metal texture" with putty, and I used salt for paint chipping (this didn't really work out, but I'm just rolling with it.) The model has a few "bullet holes", and in the finishing steps I'll be doing some more weathering.