Zaku Kai Project UpdateSince I missed the January MMC deadline as well as the Wing group build deadline with my Sandrock, I'm taking a little break from it. I've been feeling very anxious to make progress on the Zaku again. Thumbing through the Gundam Scratch Build Manual is some comfort when I'm itching to make some progress on it but there's no substitute for the real deal.
Last time I posted WIP photos I was working on yet another new backpack part, starting over from the beginning yet again. The good news is that turned out quite well. It still needs some finishing touches but it's generally in good shape at this point.
Tonight I decided to work on the head: I've been feeling like I've spent too much time
trying to do things and not enough time actually
doing them... It's kind of a matter of confidence. Sometimes I can work on a part for hours and not actually get anywhere - usually because I'm trying too hard to get it right. I think the trick is to work hard enough to get it right, but not much harder than that. The work has to keep moving along or else it stagnates and then I really get stuck.
With the head I'd had the left and right halves of the head separated so I could work on and verify them separately. This was good stuff and it did improve the overall quality of the part, but I decided it was time to put the halves back together in a permanent fashion and try to work from there.
I thought about a few ways I could try to do the snout - at this point probably I'll try carving the hollow out of the end, though I could always just build a new, hollow snout from plastic plate, too...
The big thing today was I added the power cables to the head. The actual cables and beads are just what I had on hand (though I may use the same parts for the final piece, I don't know) but the connection points at the front and back of the head are new. At this point the head looks a lot less abstract, much more what we expect in a Zaku.
