Zaku fz hguc work n progress - new finished pictures

smeagol the vile

Looks great but the body color green looks odd being on the shoudler, or something on the shoulder looks like its the color of the arms and legs.

 

Also, have you ever tried the HGMC Head sets?  They sold aftermarket heads for MG kits that had lighting kits in them.

It's the strange case of 116 from humbrol, sems that it's auto-weathering but i asure final result it's great, hovewer the picture accentuates the effect. today i've done last layer of dark green and even finished on it the first highlighting of drybrush, and ready tomorrow for clear gloss layer. Only the backpack is backwards with progress , and  need to scratch the legs power conductor   .. for this can be i'll buy or find meshed tubes. 

For hgmc head sets, i don't know about it, but not in mind to buy aftermarket sets for my kits (i paid this zaku 17 €!!!) i''m stingy man and prefere to use money to buy others kits ..

I see even metal thrusters but i dislike it, it's not wheaterable and pop out of my usual final works.

The only thing that i  would consider is hands set , but latest hguc , as you can see have very good hands and came with more than two hands at kits (a good number is already stocked in my  hguc storage )

Another way is to being to use handmaded moulds for resincasting.

 2:07 am ... its bed time  

The AM heads are from bandai but there old and might be hard to find, if you ever get interested.

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/list/695/0/2

thats a link to them

I just noticed something new that is coming out and I cant wait to get one.  a 1/35th Hard Graph core fighter!

smeagol the vile

The AM heads are from bandai but there old and might be hard to find, if you ever get interested.

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/list/695/0/2

thats a link to them

 

I just noticed something new that is coming out and I cant wait to get one.  a 1/35th Hard Graph core fighter!

If you want to see more details of core fighter take a look on daloong site, already up a preview of it

I take a look to the store... lots of good things ... but actually don't have credit card ....

As a news, i placed some decals on the glossed parts of zaku and started simultaneously the nice hguc powered gm from 0083 oav!!!! soon the work'n1progres..

soon zaku's updates

The Zaku is near to finish.

Started to apply custom decals on glossed parts:

he is number zero seven !

Used superset and supersol for decals fixing.

trhusters shaping finished

as seen in previous steps i covered the huge holes for legs power conductors,using the original the mobility of the mech will be compromised.. then it's time to did new conductors:

Using again fruit juice straw for conductors armor, and inner conductors using meshed metal tubes from autos details

approximate cut of two tubes (or wires... boohh the metal meshes in the picture!!)

added a copper wire inside

the final tube will result a little larger but evenly looks good

Fixed with CA glue the first armor pieces

and the other pieces on

..finding the right length..

... too long.. need  to remove one or two armor piece

better seems to me..

so leaving the power tubes and

virtually all piees received the first coat of clear gloss , backpack and skirts min parts excluded..

a little messy on the box

that's all for tonight

great idea with the fabrication of the conductors armor tubes  

SprueOne

great idea with the fabrication of the conductors armor tubes  

 

 

It's not the first time, i used a variant on my flying gouf, but used as the inner tube a copper wire with another wrapped around, then the straw on:

but in this case the conductors don't need mobility.

This is the first time i use movable armor.. i hope will work!!

so..

only little update for zaku, only painting another layer of gloss on dark green parts and covered first strike of decals on light green parts.

.. unfortunately during paintig i break spiked shoulder armor joints.. ..........

Tomorrow i need to resolve it... spiked shoulder is one of most hallmark for zakus!

At the next!

At the five o' clock i heard some jets directed to libya.... sure was someone from RAF... ..

mh

updates

The cracked spike shoulder armor after glued with CA the pcb piece...  the mobility of the piece is compromised but at least the piece is on :

added a detail to cover the bad business

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Heat Axe and big rifle ready for decals ,not followed the suggested color scheme

anothe fit test with high glossed pieced (two or more gloss layers in these pieces)

first paint strike on legs power conduct

last pieces that need gloss layer

and thrusters about ready

ok.. that's all, waiting to complete all pieces at full glossiness to evalutate where and which decals i'll use to finish this FZ.

Soon updates!

time to put more decals!!

used microscale supersol and superset.. but not good finish i think .. someone can suggest a valid alternative?

.. then, actual progress (sorry for pictures quality)

mh... that's all for this night

Erm...too much decal, and spread too evenly in my opinion.

actually I did what you did when I was building old HG Gouf kit and that could be one way to do it but probably the standard mono-eye modification with kit would be the below one. ^ ^

and with the pipe modification~

dj898 wich gouf hg? actually there are 3 or four tipes, newest are two hguc standard

My first gunpla was the old hg gouf custom, and was the only i not did the monoeye mod, built very fast and used (one of few exception) acrilyc colors

Not too bad, but lately exit the hguc version!!

And hguc gouf below will be heavily mod , 

And two MG , one the normal gouf but V2 version, and the old custom gouf... 

The pipes mod you did seems good , only the diameter of pipes appears a little large compared to originals.

With these last piecesi complete the gloss painting steps (the inner shoulder need only a strike of dark green)

backpack before and after gloss paint

mmm... tomorrow i'll put last decals on backpack and probably i'll remove some excessive decals on the rest.

that's all for this night

alright, almost done! 

can't wait to see the pictures of this completed and painted

bsyamato

dj898 wich gouf hg? actually there are 3 or four tipes, newest are two hguc standard

My first gunpla was the old hg gouf custom, and was the only i not did the monoeye mod, built very fast and used (one of few exception) acrilyc colors

Not too bad, but lately exit the hguc version!!

 

 

that build looks good

this is also the same kit of the only Gundam kit that I've ever built up

SprueOne

alright, almost done! 

can't wait to see the pictures of this completed and painted

 

 

bsyamato:

 

dj898 wich gouf hg? actually there are 3 or four tipes, newest are two hguc standard

My first gunpla was the old hg gouf custom, and was the only i not did the monoeye mod, built very fast and used (one of few exception) acrilyc colors

Not too bad, but lately exit the hguc version!!

 

 

 

 

 

that build looks good

 

this is also the same kit of the only Gundam kit that I've ever built up

 

ahah great idea !!! i want to see if someone give it a contravention for illegal paint!!!

great mods

On the zaku main work is complete, steps that left are some decals on backpack, another whole layer of gloss coat to seal decals and prepare the surface for panel lining wash, after this final matt layer and final drybrush touch ... then will find a place to expose it (the hardest step )

haha, thanks

no one tried arresting this guy for graffiti ...

nice job.

Ron

thanx ron just today remembered to do first layer of matt clear ... forgotten to finish this mech

thanx ron just today remembered to do first layer of matt clear ... forgotten to finish this mech

Outstanding looking build !!!!

Thanks for sharing

thanx swl

your avatar it's a judas album cover or i'm wrong?

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Near to last lap for this wip. Just passed two layer of matt coat on all pieces

tomorrow all pieces will ready for painting retouches (like legs thrusters) and white and others drybrush

Finally decided to do last works on little green mono-beast!

Just painted some minus piece after matt clear (humbrol high thinned) and drybrushed with model master matt white.

Heres some pictures. i'll post after someone with sunlight

The Zaku family is grew up

at the end i notice some bugs, some silvering on decals.. and the legs power conductor need a better housing!

I hope you like this work

Next gunpla to finish hguc Powered GM

Nice bro, nice

Really good looking build . Hope can get mine looking that good oneday

And you are correct it a preist cover (Defenders of the Faith)

great album! i have the tape .. 

Thanx for comments 

great looking paint on those mechanical suits! 

thanx SprueOne, 

Soon i want to try a serious diorama as your ! i bought lots of mini people (1/144 and 1/160) from preiser but actually used only few in the little old zaku 2 diorama

Even the 8th ms team diorama is again stopped .. i found casually the box where i putted a year ago the little scratched hovertank and the started rx-79g ...

Need a little diorama to acquire more experience!!! boohh !!

I remember that little guy, you put so much work into it, and it looks so good

That's some fantastic paint job on an HGUC kit, especially when it's brush-painting.  Is that a different head you put on there?  The FZ was Barney's MS in 0080 War in the Pocket right?  I remember it had the older style head, without the rim.

yes, is the second tipe head, included in the same kit

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I think the 0080 oav have between the best mech even designed, the picture above was taken before this post , with other head and with the best (for me) shaped mech never seen on this earth : the kaempfer!

actually only snapped.

Finally sun comes out!

nothing better that pictures under sun!

some photoshopped

Some silvering from homemade decals i hope you like it!