{"id":310,"date":"2009-01-23T04:27:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T09:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=310"},"modified":"2009-01-28T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T19:55:55","slug":"zaku-monoeye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Zaku Monoeye"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the various complex projects are ongoing, I have some simpler stuff going on concurrently. Lately it’s been a couple of 1:100 Zakus – one of which is the recent MG v2.0 Groundtype Zaku.<\/p>\n

The way Bandai handles monoeyes in these kits has always been a pet peeve of mine. On less-expensive kits there’s usually just a flat piece for the eye visor, maybe with a clear piece for the eye itself at best… On more intricate kits like the MG and PG there’s some emphasis put into making sure that there’s a clear lens and that it can turn – but otherwise no effort at all at detailing the eye. The space around the lens is simply a giant void.\u00a0 So while this MG v2.0 isn’t a kit I want to put a tremendous level of effort into, this is one matter I had to address.<\/p>\n

I used a Kotobukiya flat vernier part (P-113) as the main part of the eye – I drilled out the center of it so I can light it.\u00a0 A Wave clear 3mm lens will go on as one of the final steps. The kit stock part struck me as generally unappealing – it’s a clear part that provides not only the lens at the front of the eye, but the whole camera body leading up to that point.\u00a0 Since it’s a clear part it’s all too easy to see that this is the case when viewing it from the front – and if you light it, you need to take care to seal out the light leaks from the sides.<\/p>\n

One detail that’s always left out of the kit monoeyes are the tracks. Generally when Zeon’s monoeyes are portrayed with any level of detail, the eye itself is a camera assembly which travels on a track – and the track itself has a certain level of vertical movement to give the camera some level of tracking on a second axis.\u00a0 This detail is somewhat difficult to reproduce on a model due to the fact that kit monoeyes, when poseable, don’t run on tracks – rather they are mounted to a part which turns on an axis. Ideally I’d like the tracks to be closer together than the ones I made – but I think the tracks I made are certainly an improvement.<\/p>\n

In order to build the tracks and add the detail to the top of the eye area, I had to alter the visor piece a bit – on this kit the visor part has a horizontal upper surface which plugs into the top part of the head. It’s a convenient feature and it lends the part a great deal of stability – but for my build it’s in the way…\u00a0 So I drilled a bunch of holes near the edge of the visor so I could cut the horizontal surface away and leave just the visor behind. Care must be taken when doing the final cut – I was afraid I’d put some cracks in the visor, but it seems to have worked out OK.\u00a0 I’ve been sanding the inside of the visor – after some polishing-grade sandpaper and a dip in Future it’ll look good as new – and be more convenient to re-install.<\/p>\n

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While the various complex projects are ongoing, I have some simpler stuff going on concurrently. Lately it’s been a couple of 1:100 Zakus – one of which is the recent MG v2.0 Groundtype Zaku. The way Bandai handles monoeyes in these kits has always been a pet peeve of mine. On less-expensive kits there’s usually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scope-eye.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}