Zaku fz hguc work n progress - new finished pictures

Yea, thats how photos work sometimes, they show things you would never see in real life.

umh .. i think that pictures accentuate the dark colour, at the real not seems so much, but the steps to do are these:

- another shading of lighten green 

- gloss clear cote

- black panel lining and decals (printed by me ) 

- mat clear cote

- another round of dry brush (some touch of black to exagerate on movable parts and some touch of brown on feets to simulate mud and others)

that's for painting overall.

SpueOne good progress but again lots to do. Monoeye mod again not decided the way to do, and after.. the 95% comlpete pain have to come

Not sure but thinking to do a little diorama for stand

5 years is AGES in bandai time.  You would not believe the quality difference between 5 years ago and this year's releases.

significant progress on this MS  

I completed a similar kit about 5 years ago and these are fun to do 

Hey, I only fear that your shading on the legs and arms seems a bit to dark.  are you going to give them another coat?

some other steps ;

other pieces painted

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All the light green pieces shaded with first pass of drybrush

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Head ready for monoeye modding

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others modding on skirts

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and another fit testing (this is the official excuse to look at final work )

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that's all for today !!

smeagol the vile

Oh you should give the oils a try mate, you would love them.

They blend and mix very well, also they use nothing close to the thinner for other paints so you can do washes over anything.

 

My last project was a 1/76th Airfix World War 1 female tank.  I base coated it with green, then I mixed some Green oils untill they were the same color as the base.  I then put it out on a bunch of different pallets and mixed each one with just a drop of blue, or red, or yellow, or white, or whatever I had.  then I lightly brushed it and colored and blended them, one of each blend onto the seperate pannels of the armor on the tank.   It wasnt overly noticable but it came out looking beautiful, check it out.

 

wow good progress .. last of your work i see, was think the guntank on bakuc!! only the rear part seems less weathered that the rest (keep in mind in the WWI the combat was mainly in trenches with lots of mud).

Good to see some new from you

Not in mind to try oils for now, relatively satisfied of actual finish.

now some zaku's updates:

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... ok i maded some mods on skirts:

shaped some piece of plastic to fit rear of skirt parts

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so on; (strange not find on web pictures of the real, so i must invent something...  )

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on the opposite side of rounded white pieces have thrusters, after i'll put some tube for more realistic look

The chest glued with engraved panels and some hole done:

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some hole for inguinal thruster

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painting time!

.... choiced the good color for dark green (humbrol 116) i removed the previous MM green with thinner (after two days the MM green not totally dry .. ) and done first layer of it:

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Fit testing to see if colour work good together:

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Some gray part have lready a shot of black drybrush

.... low legs first pass of drybrush, used the same humbrol 116 on the light 78 .. seems that work:

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i like this mech

At the next for more updates !!!!

Oh you should give the oils a try mate, you would love them.

They blend and mix very well, also they use nothing close to the thinner for other paints so you can do washes over anything.

My last project was a 1/76th Airfix World War 1 female tank.  I base coated it with green, then I mixed some Green oils untill they were the same color as the base.  I then put it out on a bunch of different pallets and mixed each one with just a drop of blue, or red, or yellow, or white, or whatever I had.  then I lightly brushed it and colored and blended them, one of each blend onto the seperate pannels of the armor on the tank.   It wasnt overly noticable but it came out looking beautiful, check it out.

Simply drybrushing and panel lining with high thinned black  

only use enamels for all, will try to show all steps with this kit when i'll do it.

Never used oils

So your hand brushing it eh'?  I havent hand brushed a gundam in a while, I never seem to get a smooth enough finish.

What are you going to do to weather and detail it?  I have started using oils for that and it works great.

smeagol the vile

Yay for a gunpla build.  I cant wait to see what you do with it.

 

I FINALLY got my airbrush parts so hopefully I should have a gunpla WIP up on here soon too.

Hi friend

I'm using again 50 cents brushes to paint and some good brush for retouch and drybrush.

As i write above don't mod too much this kit. Naturally as ever i'll use homemade decals ,Lots of them again on sheets.. Hope you post soon your gunpla wip.

Advice me when you post because mainly posting on aircraft section of the forum.

then... some update of this morning:

Tried thi modelmaster enamel for the dark green but not convinced to me, i'll try with humrol 116 for next piece and compare to it.

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heres grey pieces ready for weathering, holes was maded even on the axe:

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After blackened the visible inner of chest

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Drybrushed with gunmetal 53

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last layer of light green and black, and pieces was ready for drybrush:

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that's all for now, waiting glued chest to dry i'll work on it

Yay for a gunpla build.  I cant wait to see what you do with it.

I FINALLY got my airbrush parts so hopefully I should have a gunpla WIP up on here soon too.