MS-06 ZakuII R1N Cerebus Testbed for Newtype (Commission)

while out of scale the texturing isnt bad.  What I do is stick squadrin putty into alittle container full of laquer thinner.  It turns it into like.. a paint instead of putty

I dab it on then sand it almost smooth.  works great

Today, I got the parts textured I want to get textured.

 Used Tamiya surface primer, applied with the pictured trimmed Testors junk brush.

Then each piece got a going over with junk sanding films. I got all this old testors stuff out of the clearance box at the FLHS for pennies.

Knucklespikes added, some surface primer to blend them in, and ready for re-priming. I had to make about 10 spikes to get 6 good ones.. then I dropped one...  had to make 4 more before getting one that matched.

So here's the finished, textured head, and knuckle armor. I'm almost declaring the texture too much, it's not exactly scale, *but* it looks good in an exaggerated way, which is probably a good idea when working in 1/100. 

And a couple of other pieces, shoulder and rear skirt armor, to show off the texture on some larger pieces. The shield for the other shoulder is rolled/welded, so doesn't get the texture.

Now I can start painting!

Tiny update, more soon.

Zaku demands knuckle spikes. Zaku will not be denied.

I found a chunk of sprue, I'm not even sure what from, chocked it into the dremel stylus there and buzzed it down to 6 little cones. Speed 2 worked just fine! Next I'm gonna lop those off carefully to attach them to the Zaku's knuckle plates. 

Lil update for my color test. Hacked this out in GIMP last night and today.

and finished the head sculpt!

Little update, still working on the head.

 When I woke up, the visor was melty and rippled in the middle. The fix? More putty! I added wedges to the back of the visor, and things are looking good. Once everything is set up hard I'll go over it once more and probably call it done, hit it with Tamiya Surface Primer and give it a cast texture, which should conceal my hackery.

smeagol the vile wrote:

Cant wait to see more.  I must say though, that bazooka looks wrong, isnt that one of the ZZ beamcannons?

 It's the beam bazooka from Char's Rick Dom. I need to mod it a good deal more. The Cerebus is supposed to have a big honkin mega particle beam cannon, and that's the starting point.